Changes to the civil service code mean that scientific and medical advisors (which presumably includes Chief Medical Officers, MRC, NHS England and MHRA and others) will not be able to Read more…
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More than two million people in the UK already have moderate to severe kidney disease (CKD) and it is estimated that a further one million have kidney damage without knowing it. And Read more…
Science writer and broadcaster Geoff Watts reviews The Least Likely Man: Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery of the Genetic Code by Franklin H. Portugal. Published by the MIT Press. If Read more…
The Royal Television Society has honoured former ITV science and medical editor and MJA chair Lawrence McGinty with a lifetime achievement award for more than 40 years as a science Read more…
National Stop Snoring week runs from April 20-25 2015. This year we will be discussing: could it be down to your genes? Many factors influence snoring and sleep apnoea, some are acquired, Read more…
In memory of those who died in the cowardly attack on Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015. Stephane Charbonnier, Jean ‘Cabu’ Cabut, Georges Wolinksi, Bernard ‘Tignous’ Verlhac, Philippe Honore, Elsa Cayat, Bernard Maris, Read more…
Paul Vaughan, founder member of the MJA, broadcaster and former BMA press officer has died aged 89. As chair of the steering committee, he presented the constitution at the association’s Read more…
The new chair of the MJA is Lawrence McGinty, former science and medical editor for ITV News, who was elected unanimously at the AGM on October 3. The award-winning journalist Read more…
Pulse editor Nigel Praities, took editor of the year, and reporter Alex Matthews-King won story of the year — Care-data — at the 2014 Medical Journalists’ Association Summer Awards. Praities, joined Pulse Read more…
The Researching Far East POW History Group (RFH) is holding its 5th research conference on Sunday June 7, 2015 at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). RFH was established in 2005 with Read more…
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