Seeking lightbulb moments

Abstract

Decades of improvements in mortality are coming undone as public health funding is eroded and trust in evidence based treatment is undermined. At the same time, commercial interests are pushing people away from healthy lifestyles, as companies work to ensure that government policies don’t undermine their business models (doi:10.1136/bmj.r487).1 And millions of the most powerless people in the world will be harmed in the wake of the US’s sudden withdrawal of foreign aid (doi:10.1136/bmj.r518).2 Can some of the new ideas and technological advances …