Ideas, evidence, practice
Oct 2026
AI skills for doctors are no longer a side interest. In Doximity’s 2026 Physician Compensation Report, two thirds of physicians, 67 percent, said that staying current with AI tools will bring a meaningful earnings advantage over colleagues who do not adopt them during the next 12 months. The report, released on 25 August 2026, also […]
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Oct 2026
Denmark has frozen new authorisation applications for foreign doctors until 31 December 2026. Here is the five-step Danish authorisation process, what the quota zero means, who is exempt, and how to use the pause.
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Oct 2026
The Medical Training (Prioritisation) Act 2026 requires UK training places to be offered first to UK graduates and defined priority groups. Nuffield Trust data shows non-priority specialty training acceptances fell from 28% to 1.8%.
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Oct 2026
Japanese researchers are asking the public to fund their science. On research crowdfunding Japan - what it can do, and why it can't replace public money.
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Oct 2026
Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics. A physician-researcher explains the discovery and why it matters.
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Oct 2026
Clinical research rule changes 2026: five DHHS Unified Agenda shifts on IRB review, IND reform, e-records and safety reporting, with a researcher's take.
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Oct 2026
AI clinical trials are going from hype to infrastructure in 2026. What the federal push, the evidence, and the ethics mean for researchers.
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Oct 2026
Pirbright and KCL found covid immunity cross-reacts with bat coronaviruses. My take on the methods, the limits, and what it means for the next pandemic.
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Oct 2026
Three decades of follow-up data now point to something parents and clinicians have long suspected: childhood fitness and depression in adulthood are linked. In a longitudinal study tracking participants from childhood into middle age, fitter children grew into adults with measurably lower depression risk, even after accounting for the usual suspects. This was not a […]
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Sep 2026
Over half of researchers cannot reproduce their own experiments. What reproducibility crisis research is, why psychology was hit first, and what I changed.
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