After 10 years in the role, I have stepped down as a vice chair of the MJA — although I will continue to play an active role in the EC Read more…
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It wasn’t the typical check-list for a press trip. Faraday bags for my laptop and phone; tick. Hotspot travel insurance; tick. Sort out a will; tick. But travelling to Ukraine Read more…
In early October I was all set to travel to Rwanda for a week-long reporting trip on NCDs and hepatitis B vaccination in children, with commissions from the Lancet and Read more…
MJA members have an exclusive opportunity to meet Patricia Murray, the Liverpool professor who was instrumental in the conviction of disgraced surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, when she gives a presentation on Read more…
Award-winning author Dr Carol Cooper takes you on a journey through the 12 objects that have come to define medicine through the ages – from the barbaric and bizarre to Read more…
We have become aware of scam emails purporting to come from MJA chair Shaun Lintern. At this stage it appears that only members of the Executive Committee have been targeted, Read more…
Why Can’t I See My GP? The Past, Present and Future of General Practice by Dr Ellen Welch was released by Calon/University of Wales Press this month– and is already Read more…
I suspect quite a few MJA members who provide media training will have added Beth Rigby’s polite, but lethal, dissection of Stonewall chair Iain Anderson to their collection of ‘how Read more…
Journalists don’t normally alert potential rivals to topics they are writing about it. I’ve never done so before, but some things transcend common rivalries. But first, the story within the Read more…
This quotation from Nobel Prize Winner Sir Peter Medawar is on the pinboard above my desk. It is a daily reminder that my writing must be clear and unambiguous if Read more…
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