A friend is frightened by reading the headline “Chemotherapy may spread cancer and trigger more aggressive tumours, warn scientists” in the Daily Telegraph. A close friend of hers has had breast cancer successfully treated, but reading the headline, writes my friend, “fires me back to the very physical response I had [when her friend was […]
Students need to be trained and assessed in a way that prepares them for working with patients who increasingly have multiple pathologies and comorbidities […]
We will need new principles and regulations to govern medical artificial intelligence […]
The phrase “patient centricity” makes us all feel good. Health professionals adopt the term regularly, spend more time with patients, express more concern, and try to push the policy envelope just that little bit further. Thank you for this. However, while the direction and sentiment are laudable, the pace and scope are just far too […]
Within years, almost every home in Britain, and many other countries around the world, could be equipped with a device capable of delivering an array of remote health and care services—a smart meter. A small but growing body of research (captured in a recent review by colleagues and myself) highlights the range of ways in […]
The evidence base for social prescribing lags behind practice and needs to catch up […]
Security issues that are specific to genome data need to be considered […]
The idea came to me in September 2016 when the United Nations General Assembly held a high level summit to address the large movements of refugees and migrants. At the meeting it was increasingly clear that the world is experiencing a huge humanitarian and health crisis affecting migrants, refugees, and internally displaced patients (MRIDP). In […]
A change in the law would enable those in the UK faced with a terminal illness the choice of a death with dignity on their own terms […]
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]