Your weekly BMJ digest – 13/5/17
We’re feeling ripples from the tumultuous outside world in this week’s BMJ. From the rare/raw steak on its cover, which
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Better records will save lives – a new approach to helping the world’s poor
Worldwide 230 million people are invisible, as their births have not ever been recorded. Worse than that, this number is
Read moreAn International Love-Hate Affair
It is a question every international student is sure to face in at least one of their medical interviews: “Compare
Read moreTop 10 most searched diseases on Google
It’s interesting looking at what other people search for medically for a number of reasons. It shows us what diseases people
Read moreMalaria vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline likely to be approved
Malaria is a disease which affects over 200 million people worldwide each year, resulting in nearly 600,000 deaths, many of
Read moreCould legal medical cases help slow down climate change?
It is well known that climate change is endangering health. Indeed damage to public health is one of the reasons
Read moreClimate change and its effects on global public health
Climate Change and increasing global emissions is responsible for huge changes in global health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says
Read moreHow might big data transform medicine?
Big data is starting to affect every area of our lives and of commerce, but it is also expected to
Read moreThe worldwide tobacco epidemic and what’s being done about it
Worldwide, we are going through a ‘Tobacco Epidemic’, which is having serious consequences for health organisations. Some countries such as
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