JAMA appoints new editor for new times
Last year, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) lost both its deputy editor and its editor. To rephrase Oscar Wilde’s quip: to lose...
Slovakia apologies for decades of forced sterilisations of Roma women
The government of Slovakia has made a formal apology to thousands of Roma [Gypsy] women who had been forcibly sterilized over several decades. The government's...
Repudiating the foundation document of American medical education as racist and sexist
1910 was a landmark year in American medicine. The publication of the Flexner Report on medical education led to a rapid transformation of the medical...