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- Covid-19: Negligence by Experts https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2024/01/24/negligence-by-experts-in-the-early-response-to-covid-19/ 3 comments
- Ice not recommended for soft tissue injury treatment (2019) https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2019/04/26/soft-tissue-injuries-simply-need-peace-love/ 151 comments
- Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines (2020) https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/11/26/peter-doshi-pfizer-and-modernas-95-effective-vaccines-lets-be-cautious-and-first-see-the-full-data/ 5 comments
- Does the FDA think these data justify the full approval of a Covid-19 vaccine? https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/08/23/does-the-fda-think-these-data-justify-the-first-full-approval-of-a-covid-19-vaccine/ 3 comments
- Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise? https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-health-research-is-fraudulent-until-proved-otherwise/ 479 comments
- Covid vaccines for children should not get emergency use authorization https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/05/07/covid-vaccines-for-children-should-not-get-emergency-use-authorization/ 2 comments
- On Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/04/peter-doshi-pfizer-and-modernas-95-effective-vaccines-we-need-more-details-and-the-raw-data/ 7 comments
- We jumped from planes without parachutes (and lived to tell the tale) https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/12/13/we-jumped-from-planes-without-parachutes-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale/ 2 comments
- Never Let an Ill Child Go to Waste http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2017/07/07/never-let-an-ill-child-go-to-waste/?hootPostID=870b297d519a5687c5e941e2753b4417 2 comments
- Seeing human lives in spreadsheets: The work of Hans Rosling http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/02/14/seeing-human-lives-in-spreadsheets-the-work-of-hans-rosling/ 12 comments
- Higher risk of COVID-19 death in older women with low estrogen.A large observational study has detected a link between increased levels of the hormone estrogen in older women & a reduced risk of dying from COVID-19. The study cannot establish evidence of causality but does call for clinical trials. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/2022/02/15/oestrogen-levels-linked-to-risk-of-covid-19-death-in-older-women/ 4 comments science
- Third of first year university students have moderate to severe depression/anxiety. The transition to university life coincides with the peak period for the emergence of mental illnesses, most (75%) of which start in young adulthood, note the researchers. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/2021/12/01/third-of-first-year-university-students-have-moderate-to-severe-depression-anxiety/ 13 comments science
- Political censorship in academic journals sets a dangerous new precedent https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/06/02/political-censorship-in-academic-journals-sets-a-dangerous-new-precedent/ 5 comments science
- Covid-19 vaccine wars: developing the AstraZeneca vaccine was a triumph, but then things went wrong - The BMJ https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/26/vaccine-wars-developing-the-astrazeneca-vaccine-was-a-triumph-but-then-things-went-wrong/ 16 comments europe
- Attitudes towards cannabis products for medicinal use need to change with much greater appropriate use of such products to help alleviate patients’ pain. Researchers found that hundreds of thousands of UK patients were self-medicating with illegal cannabis-based products for medicinal use. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/2020/09/21/it-is-time-to-embrace-cannabis-for-medicinal-use-say-experts/ 19 comments science
- Time for ethicists to pay attention to "chronic fatigue syndrome" https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2019/03/05/its-time-to-pay-attention-to-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ 414 comments philosophy
- There is an inherent tension in approving drugs: do we want to expand access to patients sooner, or do we want to more robustly confirm the safety profile of the new drug? A new paper analyzes this problem and finds the FDA currently favors a speedy review. http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/09/12/peter-doshi-speed-vs-safety-in-the-fdas-new-drug-approvals-speed-wins-again/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+bmj%2Fblogs+%28latest+bmj+blogs%29&g=w_bmj-com 34 comments science
- Bing search engine can predict, with very low false positive rates, people who may have pancreatic cancer based only on their search history. http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/06/06/gerd-gigerenzer-can-search-engine-data-save-lives-from-pancreatic-cancer/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork 23 comments science
- "Death from Cancer is the best," says former British Medical Journal editor. http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2014/12/31/richard-smith-dying-of-cancer-is-the-best-death/ 18 comments worldnews
- Moderate alcohol intake of at least five units every week is linked to poorer sperm quality in otherwise healthy young men, suggests research: The higher the weekly tally of units, the worse the sperm quality seems to be, the findings indicate http://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/2014/10/02/moderate-weekly-alcohol-intake-linked-to-poorer-sperm-quality-in-healthy-young-men/ 39 comments science
- Girls born small or underweight twice as likely to be infertile in adulthood: Girls born unexpectedly small or underweight seem to be twice as likely to have fertility problems in adulthood as those of normal size at birth, suggests research http://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/2014/03/10/girls-born-small-or-underweight-twice-as-likely-to-be-infertile-in-adulthood/? 3 comments science