Ever thought the BMJ would be competing in the same publishing awards as Nuts magazine? To be fair, some of you probably did – not least because of the extensive coverage of anatomy. […]
Category: Editors at large
David Payne: The demise of the email
Email and mobile phones are certainly the bane of most people’s lives, but the generation of students who have never known life without the internet seem to be managing fine without them. […]
David Payne: Should we trust what scientists say about food?
If you open your newspaper in the next few weeks to read a feature entitled “Ten things you should ask a scientist,” chances are the idea came from a debate held in London this week about whether we can trust what they say about food. A survey published by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) […]
Tony Delamothe at TED 2008
The TED conference runs for three days each February in Monterey, California. The acronym stands for technology, entertainment, and design. […]
Tessa Richards at the Global Forum for Health Research, Beijing 29 Oct-2 Nov
” I believe that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP, but by the condition of its worst off. ” Zygmunt Bauman Equitable access to health care was the theme of this years meeting of the Global Forum of Health Research in Beijing and Margaret Chan, director general of WHO set […]
Tessa Richards at the European Health Forum Gastein, 3-6 October
By 0900 on the 3 Oct the hills of the picturesque Gastein valley in Austria were alive with the sound of some 600 politicians, policy makers, academics, industry leaders, and NGO’s, exchanging views on the future of health care in Europe. Eight hours earlier it had been silent and chilly, as three of us prowled […]
Fiona Godlee: Recent advances in clinical medicine, public health, and health policy. Royal College of Physicians and London School of Economics. Athens 20-22 September
Back in Athens. Much cooler than a month ago and the fires on the Peleponese are out. This meeting, arranged by Ian Gilmore and George Kitas of the Royal College of Physicians and Elias Mossialos, director of LSE Health, has an ambitious inter-professional scope but a smallish group of delegates, more than half from the […]
Trish Groves in Edinburgh: Towards a smoke free society
Monday 10 September 2007 I walked into Edinburgh’s impressive international conference centre just as a couple of minibuses pulled up outside, spilling a gaggle of protesters armed with cigarettes, Scottish flags, and placards decrying “junk science”. […]
Tessa Richards at the World Demographic Association’s 3rd “World Ageing and Generations Congress,” September 6-9
“The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball the further I am rolled the more I gain” Susan Anthony (suffragist) 1890-1906. On the airport bus en route to the conference I eavesdrop on a conversation which contains the words “patient” and “the NHS.” […]
Fiona Godlee: International Congress of Pediatrics, Athens
To Athens for the 25th International Congress of Pediatrics. Very hot indeed – over 40 degrees. Smoke from the fires raging on the hills of the Peloponnese was clearly visible from the plane as we landed. A pall of ash hung over the south east of the city. All television news channels were fixed on […]