There is increasing evidence that eating meat has various negative outcomes. As well as red meat consumption being associated with colorectal cancer and overall increased mortality, consumption of all types […]
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Krishna Chinthapalli: What Stephen Hawking taught us about determination to live and succeed
Stephen Hawking transcended astrophysics and physical disability to become the most famous scientist in the last half-century. Aside from his research output on black holes and cosmology, he received numerous […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Alpha, beta, gamma . . . zeta
In the Christmas issue of The BMJ, recently out, you can read about my exploration of nonexistent authors listed in citations in PubMed, a never ending source of general amusement […]
Dan Smyth: The European Lung Foundation’s patient organisation day
This year the European Lung Foundation (ELF) decided to do things a bit differently for the patient organisations attending the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in London in early […]
Claire Copeland: Opening ourselves up to Patient Opinion
On 25 October Patient Opinion invited me to a “learning and sharing event for clinicians” in Edinburgh. It was an opportunity to hear from those who have made this feedback […]
Tim Lobstein: Can wearable technology help patients tackle obesity?
Technology offers solutions to many health problems, but can the new generation of wearable sensors help patients manage their weight? Experience from an EU funded project suggests that there are […]
Neil Betteridge: Effective involvement of patients at medical meetings—a case study from EULAR
As someone who has long championed “user” or “patient” involvement in health focused organisations—whether as CEO at Arthritis Care or as vice president of EULAR (the European League Against Rheumatism) […]
Rammya Mathew and Kate Birrell: A radical approach to end of life care
Death and dying are inevitable parts of life. They are not primarily medical events, yet the status quo is to medicalise the dying process and hand over responsibility for the […]
Kate Adlington: Is there such a thing as the “right diagnosis”? Review from the Diagnostic Error in Medicine conference 2016
As doctors, we probably already consider ourselves honorary members of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM). It’s essentially part of our job description. But there is an option to […]
Alice Forster and Jo Waller: A new jab to prevent cancer
Around 5% of all cancers worldwide are caused by the human papillomavirus or HPV. In the late 1990s and early 2000s two vaccines were developed that protect against the two […]