A few weeks ago I took the family on a trip to Wuhan. We went with another family and a family friend, so it was a jolly party that crossed the border and took a domestic flight from Shenzhen to Wuhan on the Friday evening. Wuhan is a fascinating city, positioned half way between Beijing […]
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Research highlights – 12 August 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles. […]
Research highlights – 5 August 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles. […]
Research highlights – 29 July 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles. […]
Andrew Burd on Prince Charles and the Chinese water snake
I see that Edzard Ernst, the first Professor of Complementary Medicine in the UK has branded Prince Charles as a “snake oil salesman.” Snake oil is an interesting term and the derivation illustrates a broad spectrum of human nature ranging from human ingenuity, observation, and tradition, to greed and entrepreneurship. How so? Snake oil is a traditional […]
Research highlights – 22 July 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles. […]
Sarah Walpole, Jerome Baddley, and Rachel Stancliffe: Lost in transition
Much has been hypothesised, debated, and advocated about NHS reform. Specialists in a range of areas have looked at the impacts on their particular area of work, yet little has been remarked about the impacts of the transition on one of the NHS’s core duties – sustainability. Rising natural resource costs, climate change, and legal […]
Research highlights – 15 July 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles. […]
Research highlights – 8 July 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles. […]
Ian Williams: Comics and medicine
I have just returned from five days in Chicago, from a conference organised by myself and four American colleagues. Entitled Comics and Medicine: The Sequential Art of Illness, the event took place at the Freiburg School of Medicine from 9 to 12 June 2011 and kicked off with an exhibition of comics art, the idea […]