As medical research grows ever more complex, and as the public comes to expect more and more from medicine and science, the…
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General Sharing research data: funders of health research come together
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General Chocolate, water pipes and PLoS Medicine – report from the Cambridge Humanitarian Centre
A couple of days ago I attended the launch of a report – Cambridge and International development – published by the Humanitarian…
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Policy What should health journalists (and bloggers) be expected to know?
I recently got alerted to this great post from R. W. Donnell, an internist in Arkansas who posts as Notes from Dr…
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General False economy: how the tobacco industry is distorting Africa’s economy
If you want to get a sideways look at the damage caused by the tobacco industry – apart from its direct health…
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General Poor children at risk on the roads
I was rather taken aback with some of the coverage today of a news story that children who live in poorer areas…
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General Personalised genetic testing: when will oversight catch up with technology?
The announcement yesterday that University of California, Berkeley was dropping its original idea of individually analysing genetic information from students joining one…
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General Randomised trials are not just for medicines
In his Bad Science column this week, Ben Goldacre looked at the evidence for various methods of teaching children to read. As…
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General Global health research survey: Who is healthier?
A survey launched yesterday – the “Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 Health Measurement Survey” is aiming to…
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General Tracking how medical and science news stories develop
A colleague at PLoS ONE spotted that the Guardian are trialing a new way of reporting science and medicine stories – story…
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Policy UK government and food industry in bizarre alliance
The UK government has signalled an alarming change of policy on the regulation of the food industry. As reported in the Guardian…
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General Medical schools begin to reject industry funding for continuing medical education
A New York Times article on June 23rd, Debate Over Industry Role in Educating Doctors, discussed the thorny issue of drug and…
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General Ghostwriting and its wider ramifications
With a different hat on I write and tweet on the Publication Ethics blog of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). I…