Water matters: we must end the pollution of our rivers with sewage
I was born on a houseboat on the upper reaches of the river Thames. Summer…
I was born on a houseboat on the upper reaches of the river Thames. Summer…
I owe a lot to the NHS. I don’t just mean my job, my career,…
As Basatemur mentions,1 bacterial meningitis is a notifiable disease. Clinicians have a duty to notify…
Consultants in England will walk out on 20 and 21 July, the BMA has announced,…
The UK government’s pandemic planning followed a flawed doctrine of dealing with deaths rather than…
The National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI), a UK wide partnership between cancer research funders, has…
The ongoing conflict in Sudan has inflicted immense suffering, compounded by devastating attacks on healthcare…
bmj;381/jun27_7/p1461/FAF1faCredit: modbiomed/QMULRonald Bradley was the UK’s first professor of intensive care—and a modest, gentle man…
What you need to knowAcknowledging chronic pain as a diagnosis in its own right can…
Network meta-analysis (NMA) allows assessing the comparative effectiveness of multiple interventions by combining direct and…
It’s widely acknowledged that the NHS is “in crisis” in both England and Wales. Are…
Saliha Mahmood Ahmed makes delicate, final touches to her three course menu. It starts with…
People aged 55-74 with a history of smoking will be invited for lung cancer screening…
In April 2023, Imperial College London, in partnership with the British Red Cross, hosted a…
UK taxpayer money designated for overseas aid is being used to fund private healthcare providers…
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…