{"id":33402,"date":"2015-02-20T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T10:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=33402"},"modified":"2015-02-20T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T16:23:00","slug":"the-bmj-today-tuberculosis-technology-and-the-art-of-good-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/02\/20\/the-bmj-today-tuberculosis-technology-and-the-art-of-good-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: Tuberculosis, technology, and the art of good communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Andrew Dowson, director of headache services at King\u2019s College Hospital, London, has been <a title=\"Dowson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h982\" target=\"_blank\">suspended from the UK medical register<\/a> for four months for a\u00a0&#8220;serious breach of professional standards&#8221; during the conduct of a clinical trial to test whether a new device for closing patent foramen ovale could cure migraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A <a title=\"Study\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h817\">study<\/a> from the London School of Economics and Political Science has found that lifestyles, rather than genes, are largely responsible for childhood obesity, concluding that policies to influence a healthier parental lifestyle could combat overweight children.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The <a title=\"BMJ Awards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h817\" target=\"_blank\">shortlist<\/a> for the seventh annual <em>The BMJ Awards<\/em> has been announced, including sixty different entries over 12 categories. The awards, which celebrate the best of UK medicine, take place on Wednesday 6 May at the Park Plaza, Westminster.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editorials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/M1090014-False-col_scintigram_of_lungs_of_asthmatic-SPL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-33403\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/M1090014-False-col_scintigram_of_lungs_of_asthmatic-SPL-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"False-col scintigram of lungs of asthmatic\" width=\"230\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/M1090014-False-col_scintigram_of_lungs_of_asthmatic-SPL-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/M1090014-False-col_scintigram_of_lungs_of_asthmatic-SPL.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>\u2022 The campaign to <a title=\"TB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h810\" target=\"_blank\">eliminate tuberculosis<\/a> across England has gained steam with Public Health England and NHS England launching their collaborative five year tuberculosis strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Who needs <a title=\"Clinical technology specialists\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h945\" target=\"_blank\">clinical technology specialists<\/a>? Apparently our growing generation of \u201cdigital natives\u201d do, with more than 50 000 mobile health applications now available for people to download directly onto mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Views<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a title=\"The art of good communication\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h960\" target=\"_blank\">The art of good communication<\/a>: <em>The BMJ\u2019s<\/em> clinical editor Navjoyt Ladher breaks down the dialogue that makes the doctor\/patient relationship tick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/sota_fertilisation1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-33406\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/sota_fertilisation1-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"sota_fertilisation\" width=\"280\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/sota_fertilisation1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/sota_fertilisation1.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>\u2022 Paul R Brezina, director of reproductive genetics at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and colleagues <a title=\"Genetic technologies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.g7611\" target=\"_blank\">explore the ways<\/a>\u00a0in which genetic diagnostic technologies are changing how medicine is practised.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<strong>Emma Hayes<\/strong> is publishing administrator, <\/em>The BMJ<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News \u2022 Andrew Dowson, director of headache services at King\u2019s College Hospital, London, has been suspended from the UK medical register for four months for a\u00a0&#8220;serious breach of professional standards&#8221; during the conduct of a clinical trial to test whether a new device for closing patent foramen ovale could cure migraine. \u2022 A study from [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/02\/20\/the-bmj-today-tuberculosis-technology-and-the-art-of-good-communication\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5750],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bmj-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}