Keeping our contradictory voices in existence

Keeping Ahead of Our Adversaries

EVERY SOFTWARE SYSTEM is potentially vulnerable in ways that aren’t always imagined during development. For example, pacemakers and implantable cardioverterde brillators (ICDs), which monitor and regulate cardiac rhythms, typically provide wireless access to healthcare providers so that they can modify settings and collect telemetry. However, a malicious user could transmit commands to ICDs to ...

With our voices and our votes: advocating gun control.

“it’s Time to Hear Our Voices”

Justifying our existence.

The title of this editorial may have existential and philosophical implications but for our purposes is designed to reflect a more everyday requirement. That is to demonstrate to the public that the treatments we purvey are effective in managing their complaints. The need to demonstrate effectiveness is a rational one both in terms of spending healthcare budgets wisely and avoiding unnecessary ...

Keeping our eye on the future.

This year has seen the publication of ‘Fair Society, Healthy Lives—the Marmot Review Final Report’. This seminal report, which followed the publication of the global Commission on Social Determinants of Health, is a response to the recommendation from that report that national governments develop and implement strategies suited to their particular context. That said, this detailed report provid...