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A virtuous cycle?Not in these instances. The Times has reported that the batteries that power…
A virtuous cycle?Not in these instances. The Times has reported that the batteries that power…
The discussion around prostate cancer screening continues.1 I worked as a urologist for 30 years….
Speeches, rallies, and demonstrations for and against abortion rights on the weekend of 23-25 June…
Urgent action must be taken to break the vicious cycle of unmanageable workloads and burnout…
Vitalii Panok and his family fled Kyiv for Berlin on the second day of the…
Inequities, harassment, and discrimination are an ongoing problem in academic medicine. Numerous reports throughout North…
Defining slangI have previously defined medical terminology as a spectrum of types, from high to…
Junior doctors in England will go on strike for five days from 13 to 18…
The global mpox (formerly monkeypox) outbreak was downgraded from a public health emergency of international…
When the covid-19 restrictions took effect in Senegal, Fatima (not her real name) found herself…
Rebranding GPs as “consultants in family medicine”1 will lead to further privatisation and “Americanisation” of…
The number of people living with diabetes around the world could more than double in…
EnglandThe BMA is currently re-balloting junior doctors in England to extend its mandate for junior…
Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, home to the Nobel Prize in medicine, found surgeon Paolo Macchiarini guilty…
More than a decade after he first transplanted a synthetic trachea into a patient, the…
More than half of UK doctors who responded to a survey said they had experienced…
Two errors occurred in this article by Wen Chen and colleagues (BMJ 2023;381:e068915; doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-068915). In the…
“There currently isn’t a consensus on what the menopause is,” says Martha Hickey, professor of…
TrichotillomaniaMemantine is an NMDA antagonist credited with small positive effects on cognition, mood, and behaviour…
Lemons, limes, and fluKey lemon pie? Lime meringue? I’ve been trying all week to think…
The Department for Health and Social Care is developing the UK national action plan (UK-NAP)…
Women in Scotland who underwent vaginal mesh procedures for stress urinary incontinence were given inaccurate…
A woman in her late 50s presented with reduced mobility and a 16 month history…
A girl presented with a longstanding naevus on the scalp that had recently become smaller…
Mathew’s eloquent piece and its rapid responses prompt me to point out that there are…
The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS should make overmedicalisation a major theme…
Mathew makes several excellent points on the need for political policies to tackle overmedicalisation,1 but…
What happened in this case?On 12 June a 44 year old woman in the UK…
We read with interest the coverage of prostate cancer screening, particularly the creep of case…
AbstractObjectivesTo derive and validate risk prediction algorithms (QCOVID4) to estimate the risk of covid-19 related…
We’re in the middle of a healthcare workforce crisis. We also have an increasingly unfit…
This week, BBC1’s Panorama drew sharp attention to the problem of prescribed drug dependence and…
A group of scientists have said a review which concluded there was no consistent evidence…
Article retraction—the withdrawal of an article published in an academic journal1—is “a mechanism for correcting…
Graham highlights the risk of plagiarism allegations that students face in the “age of AI,”1…
The limitations of the government’s plan for recovering access to primary care are identified by…
Children aged 12 to 13 and gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with…
It is incontrovertible that anthropogenic climate change is driving a range of serious threats to…
bmj;381/jun20_13/p1421/FAF1fahausen160623.f1Credit: Thomas Lohnes/DDP/AFP/Getty ImagesIn 1842 an Italian physician in Florence observed that married women were…
GPs are buckling under their workloads, and the bottom line is that we simply have…
For years, cancer survival rates in the UK have lagged behind those of other countries…
Mathew is right to highlight the problem of overmedicalisation and the need for a coherent…
Richards’s reflections on NHS England’s new major conditions strategy resonate with me.1 Most of the…
The Indian government is investigating reports that the personal information of Indians stored on CoWIN,…
A coroner has given a warning about a rare side effect of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin,…
Ask for what you needLucy Henshall, GP and founder of Welcome Back to Work (www.welcomebacktowork.co.uk),…
A general ear, nose, and throat surgeon who undertook surgical procedures for which he was…
In 2021, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated that there were 27.1…
The manager of Harvard Medical School’s anatomical gifts programme is one of six people standing…
Leading medical organisations have called for an emergency meeting with the home secretary and the…