{"id":34965,"date":"2015-08-12T11:18:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T10:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=34965"},"modified":"2015-08-12T11:18:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T10:18:20","slug":"the-bmj-today-urgent-help-for-war-torn-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/08\/12\/the-bmj-today-urgent-help-for-war-torn-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: Urgent help for war torn Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/yemen_bomb_wreckage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34966\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/yemen_bomb_wreckage-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"yemen_bomb_wreckage\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res has urged donors and humanitarian organisations worldwide to pledge more in response to the increase of violence in Yemen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4366\">Anne Gulland writes<\/a>.\u00a0With WHO reporting that some 190 health facilities are no longer operating and MSF performing an unprecedented number of surgical procedures, the head of MSF\u2019s emergency unit Teresa Sancrist\u03ccval has pleaded for a surge in aid for those &#8220;dying of treatable illnesses because they were unable to get to hospital.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/ivf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34967\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/ivf-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Recent figures published in <em>JAMA<\/em> have shown that the use of cryopreserved donor oocytes (frozen donor eggs) for IVF has resulted in lower live birth rates than those from fresh donor oocytes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4352\">Susan Mayor\u2019s describes<\/a> how research by the Centre of Human Reproduction, New York, has shown a sharp increase of the use of fresh oocytes in recent years due to the successful outcome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34968\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/books-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"books\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>A gift or a burden? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4259\">Margaret McCartney\u2019s latest column<\/a>\u00a0explores the relationship of doctors as the gatekeepers of patients\u2019 medical tales.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>In reply to Clare Dyer\u2019s article on the upcoming MP debate on assisted dying, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h3187\/rr\">Paul Clark questions<\/a>\u00a0if <em>The BMJ<\/em> are asking the right questions when it comes to supporting the issue.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nEmma Hayes<\/strong> is publishing administrator, <\/em>The BMJ<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022\u00a0M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res has urged donors and humanitarian organisations worldwide to pledge more in response to the increase of violence in Yemen, Anne Gulland writes.\u00a0With WHO reporting that some 190 health facilities are no longer operating and MSF performing an unprecedented number of surgical procedures, the head of MSF\u2019s emergency unit Teresa Sancrist\u03ccval has pleaded [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/08\/12\/the-bmj-today-urgent-help-for-war-torn-yemen\/\">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-34965","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\/34965","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=34965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}