How can we become "bigger and better"?

How we can better protect children from abuse and neglect.

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

We must--and we can--do better.

How Can We Better Prevent Obesity in Children?

The aim of this review is to discuss the state of the art regarding the field of health promotion in the context of childhood obesity prevention in order to learn how we can better prevent childhood obesity. Challenges have been identified that exist within the different steps of health promotion programme development and implementation. Important steps forward include studying behaviours and d...

How can we prepare better for influenza epidemics?

This Personal View (BMJ 2017;359:j5007, doi:10.1136/bmj. j5007) states that the World Health Organisation has recently taken antiviral neuraminidase inhibitors off its Model List of Essential Medicines. It should say that “The World Health Organization has recently downgraded its recommendations in its Model List of Essential Medicines for the limited indication of severe illness due to confirm...