Kate Womersley and Katherine Ripullone Would you expect a junior doctor to be confident giving basic advice and care for the most common and fatal diseases? Of course you would. NICE guidelines state that a first line intervention for diabetes, obesity, and high cholesterol (all major risk factors for cardiovascular disease and early mortality) is to […]
Matt Morgan discusses the gradual increase in volume of mental workload that doctors have to deal with […]
In mid-August 2017, Donald Trump, the President of the United States, signed the FDA Reauthorization Act 2017, under which drug and device makers pay the FDA a fee for every new product application. User fees have been a significant component of FDA funding since the passage of the Prescription Drug User Fees Act in 1992. […]
Funders and regulators have the principal power to implement most of the solutions needed to reduce research waste […]
For many young cancer survivors, the impact of cancer does not stop when treatment does […]
An iceberg is a useful metaphor. It appears most commonly as the tip of the iceberg, and it is a warning. Nine-tenths of an iceberg is under water, usually extending well beyond the area of the visible tip. Before radar, they were a terrible shipping hazard. The proper use of the metaphor, therefore, is as a […]
By Richard Smith and David Pencheon In 2007 Fiona Godlee, editor of The BMJ and somebody who has been concerned about the environment for at least 30 years, was outed as a “climate criminal” for flying too much. We too are concerned about the environment, but we both have cars, washing machines, dishwashers, and tumble […]
NEJM 31 Aug 2017 Vol 377 Liraglutide and the egg-box Imagine that you are an egg-seller who is short of real eggs. But you happen to have lots of egg-white, and lots of egg-shells to put it in. You fill up the shells with egg-white and seal them so they look just like real eggs. […]
The cholera epidemic in Yemen is raging in the midst of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises […]
The IndoEuropean root from which the word “science” eventually descends is SEK, or in an extended form SKEI, meaning to cut. In Greek σχίζειν meant to split or rend, giving us schism, schist, schizoid, and schizophrenia. The hypothetical Germanic derivative skaith gave the word sheath, which was regarded as a split stick, so fashioned as […]