Covid-19: Researchers call for routine flu testing of hospital inpatients with SARS-CoV-2 infection
All hospital inpatients with covid-19 should be routinely tested for influenza viruses, as those who…
All hospital inpatients with covid-19 should be routinely tested for influenza viruses, as those who…
Sixty four healthcare facilities have been attacked by the Russian military since it launched an…
A consultant radiologist who dishonestly claimed payment for scans which he pretended to have reported…
bmj;376/mar25_8/o767/FAF1faWilliam Irvine Fraser (“Bill”) chose a career in psychiatry, later specialising in learning disability. He…
Kenneth Frohnsdorff spent his national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the…
bmj;376/mar25_6/o773/FAF1faEdward Young (“Eddie”) was born and brought up in Reading in a large family with…
bmj;376/mar25_5/o768/FAF1faNeville Seymour, a retired orthopaedic and trauma surgeon died on 4 December 2021. He qualified…
bmj;376/mar25_4/o766/FAF1faGeoffrey Joseph Bourke was regarded as an outstanding, widely published academic who had a seminal…
Moderna said it would ask the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use…
The BMJ’s special issue on racism in medicine, published in February 2020, highlighted the chronic…
For more than a month now, Russian troops have been destroying the Russian-speaking city of…
What you need to knowSecondary hypertension may account for up to 30% of diagnoses of…
A 23 year old man who refused hospital investigation for suspected type 1 diabetes later…
This is herpes gladiatorum on the neck of a man in his 20s as a…
McKee and van Schalkwyk are right to raise broader questions about the management of the…
The governments of predominantly wealthy nations with high vaccination coverage are beginning to relax their…
Earlier this month The BMJ and the Nuffield Trust hosted a roundtable discussion about the…
The government’s upcoming covid-19 public inquiry must include the effect of the pandemic on children…
AbstractObjectiveTo compare the efficacy of different statin treatments by intensity on levels of non-high density…
During the covid-19 pandemic, we have seen the best of international collective action and its…
Many of us who have somewhere to call home can visit a health facility when…
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Almost the only thing that people seem to agree on about the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and…
Anticoagulants after venous thromboembolismTaking warfarin is more onerous than taking a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC),…
Introducing the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: bringing death back into life at…
The images of Ukraine’s children are hard to ignore. Wearing bobble hats and clutching teddy…
This article is aimed at medical students who reside in England. Check for eligibility on…
On 23 March 2020 at 8 pm prime minister Boris Johnson came onto our TV…
Salisbury captures the essence of general practice: the long term relationships with our patients.1 These…
Based on my short career so far, Salisbury is correct that “bad mouthing” of general…
bmj;376/mar23_12/o752/FAF1faSarah Turton/BMA NewsChaand Nagpaul (centre), BMA council chair, this week addressed the guests at a…
Covid-19Doctors urge UK action on global vaccine fundingThe #vaccinatetheworld campaign, started by a group of…
Adding fluoride to drinking water can significantly reduce tooth extractions and cavities among children and…
There is ample evidence that SARS-CoV-2 can become airborne1 and that ventilation reduces the risk…
Oliver asks if covid has killed the medical conference.1 I hope so. I struggle to…
As the war in Ukraine unleashed chaos and upended millions of lives, many Ukrainians had…
Even before the covid-19 pandemic hit the UK in 2020, waiting lists for elective outpatient…
In 2018 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Over many months I received chemotherapy, surgery,…
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The US is moving into a new phase of the covid-19 pandemic. Some are calling…
An injured pregnant woman was carried out of a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine on…
As Oliver concedes,1 the virtual world has revolutionised medical education and practice. Organisers of medical…
This is a critical time for pharmaceutical reform in the United States. The Biden administration…
Suppliers to the NHS will need to make faster progress in cutting carbon emissions if…
AbstractObjectiveTo describe the association between mistreatment, burnout, and having multiple marginalized identities during undergraduate medical…
In January, David Bennett became the first person to receive a heart transplant from a…
Figures from the Office for National Statistics for the week ending 12 March showed that…
What you need to knowNon-specific low back pain is common in people ≥60 years old;…
GPs’ leaders and Jeremy Hunt, former health and social care secretary for England, joined forces…
In their editorial on how mental health services are failing the criminal justice system,1 Brooker…