Sunbeds and spotlights

This week the BMJ published research into the use of sunbeds. Cancer Research UK surveyed teenagers across the country to find out how often they top up their tan. Duncan Jarvies talks to Catherine Thomson, from Cancer Research UK, and Madeleine Brindley, a journalist who’s often campaigned on the dangers of solariums, about the results. Also this week, recent revelations from a group of stem cell scientists shone a light on some of the problems with peer review. Modern science often holds it sacrosanct, but in a feature in this week’s BMJ, Mark Henderson - science editor of the Times newspaper - highlights various ways in which it might not work. Trish Groves, the BMJ’s research editor, talks to Liz Wager, an independent researcher into peer review, about the process and the ways in which it might be improved.