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Implementing best practice guidance for management of older people with hip fractures in India
Fragility hip fractures are likely to become a major public health challenge in the coming decades, as emerging economies with vast populations age. Half of the estimated 6.26 million hip fractures worldwide in 2050 are projected to be in Asia, predominantly in China and India. [1] Country-based incidence for hip fracture are unavailable, but data […]
Aiping Lyu and Zhaoxiang Bian: Improving the accuracy of trial data in China
In China, since September 2017, a new policy is being enforced which threatens prison sentences for researchers who are found guilty of fabricating data in studies that have led to drug approvals. [1] In the context of the fight against corruption, bribery is seen as a felony, particularly if the bribe is large. The new policy […]
Richard Smith: How might artificial intelligence improve healthcare?
Artificial intelligence, which few of us understand, might apocalyptically enslave humanity or release it from death. Some prominent scientists believe that robots blessed with artificial intelligence will soon be more intelligent than humans and conclude that they have little use for us. Other transhumanists think that it will be possible to “download” human minds into […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—20 November 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Miranda Cole: Broad based training demonstrates a way to provide outstanding care for complex patients
It’s November, Foundation Year 2. You’ve just survived your first year as a doctor, and all the career guidance that your pot-luck mixture of foundation posts have provided you with is that surgery isn’t for you. It’s night three of four shifts, and in a rare moment of calm, you have the realisation that the […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Intro and outro: De-adoption
A study published in The BMJ attracted my attention when I saw it in the print issue of 11 November: “De-adoption and exnovation in the use of carotid revascularisation”. Neither of these neologisms, de-adoption and exnovation, has yet made it into major English dictionaries—not surprisingly, since they have only recently been introduced into scientific texts. […]
Martin McKee: The devil is in the detail—why retaining the European Health Insurance Card may be an impossible dream
The European Health Insurance Card symbolises the many benefits that the European Union brings to its citizens. It allows tourists to obtain healthcare when they are visiting another member state just as if they lived there permanently. And it is only one, albeit the most visible, element of a comprehensive legal framework covering healthcare among […]
Grania Brigden: The first step on a long road to TB elimination
The first step in eradicating TB is eliminating the funding gaps […]
Jeremy Hunt must consult properly on accountable care organisations
“Grave concern” over plans to allow US-style bodies to operate in the NHS […]