The fall of Roe v Wade: the fight for abortion rights is universal
On the 24 June 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v…
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Roundup from BMA’s annual representative meeting 2022
Government has exploited doctors’ goodwill in pandemic, says BMA chairThe government must guarantee doctors that…
Sixty seconds on . . . evergreen politicians
You mean ones that stick around?In a very real sense. Researchers at Oxford Population Health…
Digital strategy promises more care at home to free up doctors’ time
The NHS app will be improved to support more personalised care from home and free…
Court rules that widower can try for baby using embryo made with his late wife
A widower has won a landmark case in the High Court allowing him to try…
FDA plans to reduce nicotine in cigarettes
The US Food and Drug Administration has announced that it plans to establish a maximum…
Recognising and reporting paediatric side effects
Unintended and unwanted side effects to medications are important and often neglected. Paediatric adverse events…
New, shorter treatments for drug resistant TB are a lifeline for people living through conflict
On a recent visit to a camp for internally displaced people in South Sudan, I…
Monkeypox: What’s behind WHO’s decision not to declare a public health emergency?
World Health Organization officials have said that the global spread of monkeypox does not yet…
Why medicine must catch up on interprofessional education for a safer NHS
A long line of reports into safety in the NHS, including most recently Donna Ockenden’s…
Triage in general practice: key hurdles to overcome
I agree that triage cannot fix the imbalance between supply and demand in general practice,1…
Advances in the management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and progressive pulmonary fibrosis
ABSTRACTSimilarly to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), other interstitial lung diseases can develop progressive pulmonary fibrosis…
David Oliver: Is England’s NHS too “top down”?
This month the government published Gordon Messenger’s independent review of NHS leadership.1 One key finding…
Severe chemosis in lupus
This is the right eye of a man in his 40s who has chemosis (conjunctival…
The devastating health consequences of Sri Lanka’s economic collapse
On 22 May, a 2 day old infant in Haldummulla, Sri Lanka, started to experience…
Richard Robinson: paediatric neurologist and polymath
bmj;377/jun29_1/o1572/FAF1faRichard Robinson’s was one of many successful medical careers fired by inspiring mentors. They included…
Partha Kar: Understanding how others relate to you
There are said to be four types of people when it comes to adopting change…
Helen Salisbury: Unintended consequences of open access to medical notes
Patients now have access to their own medical notes, which is surely progress. More patients…
NHS should publish exit interviews to allow doctors to compare conditions, meeting declares
The BMA should push for all NHS employers to publish the anonymised results of exit…
Children call for root and branch reform of air pollution
bmj;377/jun28_14/o1576/FAF1faRichard H SmithChildren and teenagers at King’s College Hospital in London marked this year’s Clean…
NHS loses 13.5 million hours of doctors’ time a year owing to IT problems, says BMA
The BMA has calculated that 13.5 million hours of doctors’ hours are lost to the…
BMA must challenge new GP contract with “industrial action if necessary,” say doctors
The BMA must organise the withdrawal of general practices from England’s primary care networks by…
GMC must focus on “significant breaches” only, say doctors
The BMA must demand that the General Medical Council focuses only on investigating “significant breaches”…
How long does SARS-CoV-2 stay in the body?
How long does SARS-CoV-2 stay in the body?There is no definitive answer. The reality of…
How can I prepare for retirement?
Prepare for a rewarding third phase of your careerRobert Scott-Jupp, retired paediatrician, Salisbury, says, “Most…
Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors and gallbladder or biliary disease in type 2 diabetes: systematic review and pairwise and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
AbstractObjectiveTo examine the association between dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors and gallbladder or biliary diseases.DesignSystematic review and…
Almost half of people on long term antidepressants can stop without relapsing
The studyDuffy L, Clarke CS, Lewis G, et al. Antidepressant medication to prevent depression relapse…
No excuse for trusts not to offer pension recycling, BMA says
The BMA has committed to campaigning for pension recycling—which enables high earning doctors liable for…
Doctors demand pay restoration in response to “30% pay cut” since 2008
The BMA has been instructed by doctors to pursue a large increase in pay, opening…
Triage in general practice: design processes around the needs of patients, not systems
It is worth asking what problems online triage is supposed to solve.1Access is not the…
Triage in general practice: more impersonal, industrialised medicine
In the Vietnam war the US military took to counting killed opponents as a way…
Polio’s detection in London is a wake-up call
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has declared a “national incident” after poliovirus was detected…
Overturning Roe v Wade: reproducing injustice
On Friday 24 June, the US Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to reproductive justice….
The impact of remote care on burden of treatment
Burden of treatment is the work that patients, and their carers and families, need to…
Manȷula Arora: GMC won’t challenge appeal and calls for sanctions to be dropped by court
The General Medical Council has said it will not challenge GP Manjula Arora’s tribunal appeal…
US Supreme Court ends constitutional right to abortion
The US Supreme Court has overturned the 1973 Roe v Wade decision, ending women’s 50…
Polio: What do we know about the polioviruses detected in the UK?
What have they found?Vaccine derived poliovirus was detected in several sewage samples from the London…
Government has exploited doctors’ goodwill but it’s now running dry, says BMA chair
The government must guarantee doctors that they will “never again be forced to risk their…
Sixty seconds on . . . Lizzo
What’s the juice?American singer, rapper, and songwriter Melissa Viviane Jefferson—known as Lizzo—is a popular household…
Donald Pinkel: innovated the treatment of childhood leukaemia
bmj;377/jun27_3/o1564/FAF1faCredit: St Jude Children’s Research HospitalDonald Pinkel, who has died at the age of 95,…
Healthcare systems must get fair value for their data
The threats to patient privacy from sharing data have been well publicised. By comparison, the…
Medical cannabis: Allow GPs to prescribe as part of national trial, review urges
GPs should be allowed to prescribe medical cannabis as part of a national trial, recommends…
James Irvine Currie
bmj;377/jun24_11/o1522/FAF1faJames Irvine Currie (“Jim”) underperformed at school so needed to take first MB. This was…
Ian Norman McCulloch
bmj;377/jun24_10/o1539/FAF1faIan Norman McCulloch’s parents, Joseph and Marjorie (née Harris), were both doctors. Having been evacuated…
Charles Keith Anderson
bmj;377/jun24_9/o1524/FAF1faCharles Keith Anderson (“Keith”) was a major figure in local cancer medicine in Leeds and…
Duncan Alexander Maclean
bmj;377/jun24_8/o1537/FAF1faDuncan Alexander Maclean was born in Lochcarron, on the north west coast of Scotland, on…
FDA orders Juul to remove all its e-cigarettes from US market
The US Food and Drug Administration has ordered Juul to remove all its e-cigarettes from…
The steady crisis across the NHS
Over the course of the pandemic, NHS performance against national waiting time targets has repeatedly…
We lose medical secretaries at our peril
Morgan mourns the shrinking of the medical administrative workforce in favour of new technology.1 Using…
Covid-19: UK makes first payments to compensate injury or death from vaccines
The first compensation payments in the UK have been made to families who have been…