I. The power to move mountains? The commotion pealed like thunder in the distance. It was unmistakable. We turned the corner of the mountain dirt road and came upon over 40 farmers heaving in unison on four ropes that dropped off the side of the cliff’s edge. The roads in this part of the Sierra […]
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Research highlights – 22 October 2010
“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. […]
Joe Collier: Help to allow terminally ill patients to die
In the UK surveys show that the public at large believe that, within carefully delineated safeguards, doctors should be allowed to assist intellectually competent adults with terminal illness to die when and where they wish. At present such action would be illegal. With this in mind, on Wednesday 13th October, a healthcare group was established […]
Peter Lapsley: Unfair charges
The decision by the Scottish Parliament to follow Wales and Northern Ireland, and to abolish prescription charges from April next year leaves the Department of Health out on a limb where England is concerned. The case for doing away with the charges is incontrovertible. At £7.20 per item (£28.25 for a three-month exemption certificate or […]
Research highlights – 15 October 2010
“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. […]
Colin Ball: It’s a miracle
Our story starts in March 2006. Tayler Bequest Hospital is a beautiful looking building with a Cape Dutch exterior that concealed the true awfulness of what was seen there every day. When I arrived at 8am, a long queue already snaked out into the car park. People waited all day, most with HIV/AIDS related complications. The children’s […]
Muza Gondwe on expanding the African Science Café network
Magical, subversive, and democratic are the words that Dr.Daniel Glaser, head of special projects in public engagement at the Wellcome Trust, used to describe the charm of science cafes in mediating dialogue between scientists and the public. He said this during a two day workshop on African Science cafes held in Nairobi, Kenya last month. […]
Research highlights – 8 October 2010
“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. […]
US Highlights – 8 October 2010
We’ve been working on how to help specialists make better use of our content. So this week we’re launching the first of what will be a series of specialty portals available on bmj.com. These three new portals focus on diabetes, oncology, and clinical trials, pulling together everything we’ve published on those topics in the BMJ, […]
David Pencheon: Moral offset
I try to maintain my sanity, like many of us, by rationalising my own behaviour and trying to make sense of the world around me. I get to sleep at night by maintaining the likely myth that I have done more good than harm that day, either as a doctor or as a citizen, although […]