Advocacy by health professionals could help stop the arms trade […]
David Southall: Ending the international arms trade could reduce terrorism and prevent the death of civilians
Ferraye and Bloem: Laser shoes and public transport
Technological innovations are rapidly being introduced into healthcare, with the aim of improving patients’ health and promoting self-management. Examples include the development of new ambulatory technologies that can assist patients in achieving safer mobility, and devices that can provide online feedback to patients so they can better manage specific symptoms of their disease. Some of […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—5 June 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers: Can it really be true that 50% of research is unpublished?
Whatever the precise non-publication rate is, it is a serious waste of the roughly $180 billion annually invested in health and medical research globally […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . The IDEAL shape of promulgation
Last week I suggested that passive diffusion and active dissemination of the outcomes of research could together be called “promulgation”. To promulgate is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “to make known by public declaration; to publish; esp. to disseminate (some creed or belief), or to proclaim (some law, decree, or tidings).” I rhetorically […]
Breakfast versus lunch, which packs the biggest punch?
Under the banner of “Fairer Funding,” the Tory manifesto outlines plans to change the current universal free school lunch system for infant pupils to a means tested programme plus universal free breakfasts. This policy demonstrates a party comfortable with stigmatising deprived families and will single out individual children in receipt of free lunches amongst their […]
Richard Smith: Disappointed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on health
Democracy, we are all told and mostly believe, is “the least bad form of government.” Sadly and ironically that belief is hardest to sustain during elections when we are deluged in slogans (“strong and stable”) and wild promises, long term issues are largely ignored, and complex issues are simplified to the point where meaning is […]
Yiran Wang: Ticket touts in Chinese hospitals
Appointment ticket touts are prevalent in the medical system in China, especially in big hospitals. They monopolize appointments for well-known doctors and increase prices to very high levels. The practice of ticket touting is causing many disputes and is harming the doctor-patient relationship. There have been reports in the media of doctors who have been […]
Suchita Shah: The lost brigade—why diasporas matter to global health
Reflections on the second UK-East African Healthcare Summit, London 2017 Talk of nations, national borders, and national identities has become a part of the ideological foreplay that inevitably leads up to big political events. As the UK general election looms, there couldn’t be a more apt time to consider what “homeland” means to us in […]
Nick Clegg: Why the Liberal Democrats believe a legal, regulated cannabis market would improve public health
This is a debate about the merits of regulation versus a system without any control, says Nick Clegg […]