British medical bulletin
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British medical bulletin · Jan 2013
Regulation and safe adoption of new medical devices and procedures.
Recent problems with medical devices have highlighted the need for improved surveillance. New procedures are largely unregulated. ⋯ How to accrue more and better evidence about devices and procedures through clinical trials and various avenues of observational data collection.
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While social media interactions are currently not fully understood, as individual health behaviors and outcomes are shared online, social media offers an increasingly clear picture of the dynamics of these processes. ⋯ Further work is needed on social media as a valid data source for detecting or predicting diseases or conditions. Also, whether or not it is an effective tool for communicating key public health messages and engaging both, the general public and policy-makers.
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British medical bulletin · Jan 2013
ReviewHealth of China's rural-urban migrants and their families: a review of literature from 2000 to 2012.
Socioeconomic transformation in China at the beginning of the twenty-first century has led to rapid urbanization and accelerated rural-urban migration. As a result, the concerns about public health problems triggered by increasing internal population mobility have been more widely studied in recent years. ⋯ Social, economic, emotional, environmental and behavioural risk factors that impact on health of migrants and their families call for more attention from health policy-makers and researchers in contemporary China.
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The public assumes that if euthanasia and assisted suicide were to be legalized they would be carried out by physicians. ⋯ The impact of characterizing euthanasia as 'medical treatment' on physicians' professional identity and on the institutions of medicine and law should be examined in jurisdictions where assisted suicide and euthanasia have been de-criminalized.
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British medical bulletin · Jan 2013
ReviewUpdate on the long-term complications of renal transplantation.
Powerful immunosuppressive regimens have reduced rejection risk, leading to an expanding cohort of long-term kidney transplant recipients who are likely to encounter practitioners in other specialties. ⋯ Markers to guide individualized optimal immunosuppression and predict the development of complications would allow for targeted early intervention.