Bias in women’s healthcare: From hysteria to the female Viagra
Jen Jiang explores the current and historical gender biases that underlie scientific research and medicine.
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Traditional medicine: From ancient remedies to evidence-based healthcare
Adèle Bouyer explores the efficacy and challenges of traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine in modern healthcare.
Make ICUs less like factories
Will Reilly explores how environmental factors affect ICU design and patient recovery, emphasising the need for a reimagined approach.
Rethinking death and ageing in the age of modern medicine
A more honest and compassionate approach to old age and death is necessary to help people live meaningful lives, argues William Reilly.
The importance of measuring patient voices in healthcare
Rakhshan Kamran discusses how patient-reported outcome measures should be applied in gender-affirming care and other healthcare settings.
Virtual healthcare, here to stay?
Sophie Thompson The digitisation of healthcare is not a new idea—indeed it was a clear ambition of the NHS Long Term Plan, published in January 2019, which proposed that all patients should have the right to a ‘digital first’ primary care offer by 2023/2024. The pandemic, however, necessitated a much more rapid realisation of this…
Telemedicine—The future of healthcare?
With each passing day in this new, unexpected world that we find ourselves in, it seems increasingly clear that healthcare technologies will never be the same as they were before the COVID-19 pandemic. Cutting-edge tools are already enabling clinicians to streamline and expedite care delivery in a range of settings to help doctors more quickly…