https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/tags/bmj/ Recent content in BMJ on ALIANZA MUNDIAL DE MÉDICOS Hugo -- gohugo.io es Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:56:37 +0000 https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/blog/the-ema-covid-19-data-leak/ Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:56:37 +0000 https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/blog/the-ema-covid-19-data-leak/ Leaked documents show that some early commercial batches of Pfizer-BioNTech’s covid-19 vaccine had lower than expected levels of intact mRNA, prompting wider questions about how to assess this novel vaccine platform, writes Serena Tinari. As it conducted its analysis of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine in December, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) was the victim of a cyberattack.1 More than 40 megabytes of classified information from the agency’s review were published on the dark web, and several journalists—including from The BMJ—and academics worldwide were sent copies of the leaks. https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/blog/hancocks-failure-to-publish-contracts-was-unlawful/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:00:09 +0000 https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/blog/hancocks-failure-to-publish-contracts-was-unlawful/ The UK government acted unlawfully in failing to publish details of dozens of contracts awarded without competition for goods and services such as personal protective equipment (PPE) needed during the covid-19 pandemic, a High Court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Chamberlain upheld a challenge by the non-profit Good Law Project to the failure by Matt Hancock, health and social care secretary for England, to publish notices for a “substantial” number of the deals, as required by law. https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/blog/bmj-lashes-state-corruption-suppression-science/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:33:06 +0000 https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/blog/bmj-lashes-state-corruption-suppression-science/ ONE of the world’s oldest and most respected medical journals has published a damning attack on the UK Government, saying “science is being suppressed for political and financial gain” in the mould of “some of history’s worst autocrats and dictators”. The journal argued that Covid-19 had “unleashed state corruption on a grand scale”, and that politicians and industry are guilty of “opportunistic embezzlement”. The British Medical Journal (officially the BMJ since 1988) published the article, entitled “Covid-19: politicisation, ‘corruption,’ and suppression of science”, in its most recent edition. https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/blog/bmj-conflicts-of-interest-among-uk-governments-covid-19-advisers/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:34:31 +0000 https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/blog/bmj-conflicts-of-interest-among-uk-governments-covid-19-advisers/ Little is known about the interests of the doctors, scientists, and academics on whose advice the UK government relies to manage the pandemic. Attempts to discover more are frequently thwarted, finds Paul D Thacker. Website: BMJ As the number of UK deaths caused by covid-19 reached 50 000 in early November, England enacted a second national lockdown to control the epidemic. Boris Johnson’s government put these measures into action after months of controversial and sometimes confusing policies, including the “rule of six,” regional tiered controls, and directions to “stay alert. https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/blog/bmj-face-coverings-for-covid-19/ Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:38:31 +0000 https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/blog/bmj-face-coverings-for-covid-19/ Psychosocial, biological, and immunological risks for children and pupils make long-term wearing of mouth masks difficult to maintain. Website BMJ Dear Editor, IIn a recent article, Westhuizen and colleagues [1] argued for a global implementation of face covering to control COVID-19 virus spread. In doing so, they do not differentiate between adults, adolescents, and children. This rapid response considers the negative effects at the immunological and psychological level of mandating facemasks for children and adolescents and maintains that they outweigh the possible gains. https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/blog/will-covid-19-vaccines-save-lives-current-trials-arent-designed-to-tell-us/ Fri, 04 Dec 2020 15:37:39 +0000 https://www.worlddoctorsalliance.com/es/blog/will-covid-19-vaccines-save-lives-current-trials-arent-designed-to-tell-us/ Tal Zaks, chief medical officer at Moderna, told The BMJ that the company’s trial lacks adequate statistical power to assess those outcomes. “The trial is precluded from judging [hospital admissions], based on what is a reasonable size and duration to serve the public good here,” he said. Hospital admissions and deaths from covid-19 are simply too uncommon in the population being studied for an effective vaccine to demonstrate statistically significant differences in a trial of 30 000 people.