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Test your clinical knowledge with The BMJ’s new word game, Clinicle. Move the horizontal word…
Test your clinical knowledge with The BMJ’s new word game, Clinicle. Move the horizontal word…
During the covid-19 pandemic, I became one of those talking heads on the TV and…
The NHS is struggling to cope with the “twindemic” of covid and flu, as the…
Emergency contraceptive pills work by inhibiting or delaying ovulation and are not abortifacients, the US…
The Lancet has said it will open an investigation into a trial of the anticlotting…
The recent Chief Medical Officer’s annual report had a welcome focus on air pollution, demonstrating…
There are only two days in your life that are less than 24 hours long—the…
Unions representing nursing and ambulance staff have announced further strike dates for January 2023, as…
Four in 10 junior doctors in the UK plan to leave the NHS as soon…
Public health, pandemic preparedness, infectious disease control, research to drive biomedical and health breakthroughs, veterans’…
In 2021 life expectancy in the US fell for the second year in a row…
The annual UN climate change conference gathers politicians and experts from hundreds of countries in…
Examinations are the hallmark of medical education, and I hated every one. So why volunteer…
On 13 December 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held what he ominously called a “Covid-19…
In October, Kit Yates and I wrote about how the NHS was facing its bleakest…
Latest data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) show a continued increase in scarlet…
A controversial new law that makes it easier for people to change their gender has…
This might be the most challenging period the NHS has ever faced. Bed occupancy rates…
The antiviral drug molnupiravir does not reduce hospital admissions or deaths among vaccinated high risk…
The government must “get round the table and have sensible conversations” about NHS staff pay…
Even when physicians focus their work on the care of individual patients, they often see…
Inadequate menstrual health education in the UK contributes to delayed and poor treatment for menstrual…
“The Poppy Factory offers employment support to veterans who have a health issue, mental or…
Emergency departments in England have been turning away non-critical patients as their wards are overwhelmed…
It seems that there are more reasons to despair than ever in 2022. However, 40…
bmj;379/dec22_4/o3017/FAF1faMalcolm WillettIt’s not just clinical staff who burn the midnight oil to care for patients….
In the past two months The BMJ has published articles on unnecessary preoperative tests,1 on…
Silverstein and colleagues advise using paediatric blood bottles to reduce blood volumes for routine adult…
In 2017 a robot called Xiaoyi—Chinese for little doctor—attempted China’s medical licensing examination.1 In its…
The loss and damage fund—agreed at the 27th United Nations climate change conference (COP27) to…
The medical students turn up just as I’m about to start the ward round. They’ve…
Society and the National Health Service have been failing patients requiring fertility treatment. I know…
Three ambulance trusts in England have declared critical incidents this week as the NHS struggles…
China’s “zero covid” strategy was successful in protecting the Chinese population throughout the first phase…
The UK’s all cause mortality was 3.1% above average during the covid-19 pandemic compared with…
In his Autumn Statement, Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, reiterated the government’s commitment to delivering long…
Inhibitors of hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (statins) are among the most widely investigated and prescribed…
The effects of the cost of living crisis in the UK have been brought into…
“Gone are the times that the scientist would sit in ‘his’ lab and produce knowledge…
The shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said he can’t understand how the government allowed…
Unions representing Italian doctors and health managers staged a protest in Rome last week which…
The weeks leading up to Christmas are a magical time for medical research. The impending…
Although children and adolescents generally have a milder form of covid-19 than adults, some young…
AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the typing skills of healthcare professionals.DesignCross sectional study.SettingTwo large tertiary medical centres in…
Once linked to energy security and considered a welcome gift for keeping warm over the…
Because a physician has possessed himself of an electrocardiograph, a polygraph, an x-ray machine, a…
The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which allows people to be “legally recognised in their…
KEY MESSAGESSpin, hyperbole, meaningless buzzwords, and technocratic jargon have become increasingly common in global health…
Although electronic health records have widely reduced medication errors, and computerised hospital orders are an…
Like doctors across the country, I felt a profound disquiet over the case of Manjula…