“I’m not talking to you about Ebola or Zika virus but about a virus that everyone in this room has had and everyone of your children and probably all children in the world get in their first few years of life,” said Roger Glass, director of the Fogarty Institute, as he began his Wolfson Lecture […]
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
… NHS England has recognised that it should not fund homoeopathic remedies. First, consider the highly versatile IndoEuropean root, SM, meaning one or as one. In Latin, semel meant once only or once and for all, and simul had various meanings related to togetherness, in one company. A semelparous plant or animal reproduces only once […]
NHS trusts are still treating junior doctors as if they are expendable at a time when low morale should be a priority […]
Although Jerome Kassirer is a familiar name to many physicians of a certain age, there is perhaps now a generation of young health professionals who are not acquainted with this remarkable physician, his multiple accomplishments, and incredible integrity. Unanticipated Outcomes is a personal memoir that tracks his fascinating trajectory from modest background to serendipitous medical student […]
Baseball provides many metaphors, but not many have made it to PubMed. A ballpark is a baseball ground. Figuratively, it is a noun meaning a particular area or range, or an adjective meaning approximate. In the OED, the first recorded use of ballpark to mean the stadium was 1899, and its meaning of approximate was […]
What does it take to be a good doctor today? […]
Robert Boyle, Ireland’s most famous scientist, thought that the first aim of science was to develop practical applications to make life better. Earlier in his life he wrote in ecstatic terms about how science should glorify God. Boyle’s thinking on the functions of science underpinned the discussions at the Robert Boyle Summer School held in […]
Medical risk calculators should not be a step towards cookbook medicine, but help to tease out patients’ thoughts and worries and prejudices […]
The Five-Year Action Plan for Health Employment and Inclusive Economic Growth from the World Health Organization, International Labour Organization, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development was recently adopted. It was developed from the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030. [1,2] Together, the global strategy and the action plan address issues around the uneven distribution […]