The BMJ Awards: Deadline approaches for 13th annual excellence awards

Excellence in healthcare is celebrated in The BMJ Awards 2015.

Nominations open for The BMJ Awards 2014.

The BMJ Awards has rapidly become the biggest night of the year for the medical profession in the UK. And 2014 will be no exception, with new categories, an enhanced judging process, and a strong focus on UK medical talent. Nominations are now open for the awards (www.thebmjawards. com), back for a sixth year with its headline sponsor, the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS). F...

The BMJ launches ninth medical awards.

The annual search for excellence in healthcare has begun once more with the opening of nominations for the ninth BMJ Awards, the competition in which the best initiatives from across the UK are invited to compete for the prestigious recognition. This year, as last, there are 15 entry categories covering the whole of medicine from bench to bedside, not forgetting that the way services are planne...

Awards spur excellence in research.

Background: Many patients experience difficulties in following treatment recommendations. This study's objective is to identify nonadherence risk profiles regarding medication (antidepressants, antihypertensives, and oral hypoglycemics) from a combination of patients' socio-demographic characteristics, morbidity presented within general practice and medication characteristics. An additional obj...

Annual IT Awards Announced

This paper is based on the Shannon Lecture presented in August 2011, at ISIT2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia, and it presents a subjective overview of selected topics in Information Theory, Communications and Signal Processing taking an InformationEstimation perspective. We first review basic Information-Minimum Mean Square Error (IMMSE) relations and properties in Gaussian additive channels, and...