Beware politicians bearing gifts

Beware of geeks bearing gifts.

The NHS is in crisis. That much we knew. That the latest crisis (doi:10.1136/bmj.j2357) was caused by a failure of cyber-security is an unexpected twist in the organisation’s struggle against chronic underfunding. WannaCrypt or WannaCry, a Trojan malware or ransomware, disables computer systems by stealing and encrypting data and locking out users. On payment of a ransom in the crypto-currency ...

Beware of cells bearing gifts: cell replacement therapy and arrhythmic risk.

Heart failure is a major worldwide health problem that is growing in prevalence despite recent treatment advances. Patients with heart failure ultimately die from either pump failure or cardiac arrhythmia, and there is a link between the degree of contractile dysfunction and arrhythmic risk. Since the 1960s, the definitive therapy for heart failure has been cardiac transplantation, but the limi...

Beware Publishers Bearing Gifts: Why the "big Deal" Is a Bad Deal for Universities

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: Diplomatic Lobbying and the Early Settlement of WTO Disputes

Patients bearing gifts: are there strings attached?

semiformal dress may have introduced some bias. For example, the higher preferences for the semiformal nonsmiling doctor may have arisen by its association with a smile on another photograph. Ideally each dress style would have been presented with a smiling and non-smiling version, or the smiling option should have been randomly associated with any of the dress styles. Although these results ar...