Covid-19: Cuba will request WHO approval for homegrown vaccine
Cuban health officials have said that they will apply for World Health Organization approval for…
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Sexual assault and harassment in medicine: we need actions not words
“Harassment thrives in settings dominated by men,” write Dis, Stadum, and Choo in a Harvard…
EU’s new clinical trial system aims to streamline approvals and improve transparency
The EU Clinical Trials Regulation is set to come into effect on 31 January 2022…
Covid-19: One in 23 people in England had infection in early January
Coronavirus infections in England were at their highest ever rate in early January this year,…
Consultant repository would not have identified Paterson as a rogue clinician
I am confused about how creating a public repository that sets out consultants’ practising privileges…
How New Zealand’s covid-19 strategy failed Maori people
We changed the headline of this feature because “the Maori” has pejorative overtones (BMJ 2022;376:o180,…
Avoid “unproven and unethical” polygenic risk scores in embryo selection, say genetics experts
Geneticists have warned the public against buying polygenic risk score analyses, which some private fertility…
BMJ readers have so far helped raise more than {pound}122 000 for annual appeal
bmj;376/jan26_10/o202/FAF1faHector Retamal/AFP/Getty ImagesMore children like this baby girl in a Médecins Sans Frontières malnutrition care…
Why doctors have a moral imperative to prescribe and support medical cannabis—an essay by David Nutt
The field of medicine developed empirically with doctors doing what they could to help reduce…
Mental health services are failing the criminal justice system
The recent joint report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorates of Constabulary, Prisons, and Probation highlights that…
David Oliver: Needs, wants, and demands for care
Needs, wants, and demands for NHS care are not the same. Right now, all three…
Former pupils of school for haemophiliac children seek legal redress for treatment with contaminated plasma
Survivors of treatment with infected blood plasma and relatives of other former pupils who died…
Adults with learning disabilities want loving relationships, but may need support
The studyMcCarthy M, Bates C, Elson N, Hunt S, Milne-Skillman, Forrester-Jones R. ‘Love makes me…
Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
This is the lower lip of a man in his 50s with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia…
Slang use in the ICU: we are women, not girls
“Gas girln An anaesthetist who identifies as female.”1 Is this slang just the banter that…
Racism as a leading cause of death in the United States
During the past year, the dual crises of the covid-19 pandemic and police violence have…
Anthony Luder
bmj;376/jan25_14/o156/FAF1faAnthony Luder, a founding professor of paediatrics at the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine (Bar-Ilan University)…
Covid-19: CoronaVac immunity is strongest after boosting with a different vaccine
A booster dose of a covid-19 jab other than CoronaVac significantly increased antibodies in those…
Improving the medical curriculum on planetary health and sustainable healthcare
The planetary health framework links human health to the health of the planet, which is…
Covid-19: Be realistic about elective recovery plan, say leaders
An apparent row over targets is further delaying publication of the recovery plan for elective…
Authors’ reply to Chiolero, Bannon, and Dickinson
We thank the respondents for their comments.1234 Chiolero suggests that dashboards will help end the…
Covid-19: The polio epidemic is a better analogy
Robertson and Doshi try to obtain lessons for the covid-19 epidemic from the ending of…
BMA representative wins legal dispute over attempts to silence him about conditions in armed forces
A BMA representative for armed forces doctors has secured a legal victory obliging the Ministry…
Falls prevention programmes succeed only by supporting staff long term
In their trial of a programme to prevent falls in older people, Logan and colleagues…
Helen Salisbury: Prolonging omicron
“Doctor, I’m feeling terrible again.”“Didn’t the tablets help?”“The thing is, I don’t really like taking…
How do you deal with a colleague who has body odour?
There may be more to the situation than can be shared with youNicola Brown, human…
Matt Morgan: The trouble with “ȷust asking questions”
After I’d got into a fight at school, it wasn’t the teacher’s anger that stayed…
Managing neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia
What you need to knowNon-medical interventions such as psychological treatments and psychosocial and environmental modifications…
A post-covid economy for health: from the great reset to build back differently
The global economy was still struggling with the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis when…
How New Zealand’s covid-19 strategy failed the Māori
“There’s been a lot of lip service to equity in New Zealand’s pandemic response but…
Recovery trial lead launches organisation to cut costs of clinical trials
A new not-for-profit organisation, Protas, has been launched with the aim of designing and delivering…
Why mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers should not be scrapped
At the time of writing (24 January 2022), unvaccinated NHS workers in England have only…
Covid-19: How prepared is England’s NHS for mandatory vaccination?
How many NHS staff aren’t vaccinated and could lose their job?The new rules for England…
Working in healthcare right now means being asked to do the impossible—then being abandoned to our inevitable failure
News media has been insistently describing the omicron variant as “mild,” but that is scarcely…
Maintaining and promoting health in care homes
The prevention of falls is an important public health matter, so it is positive that…
Parties may lead to his downfall, but is this the worst of what Johnson has done?
Sometimes it’s the smaller things that end people’s careers: Al Capone, who evaded punishment for…
Financial incentives for health should be standard practice
Research, 4 DecemberBerlin and colleagues found that progressively increasing financial incentives had positive impacts on…
Previous pandemics: advocating a return to the good old days?
Robertson and Doshi are right that there will be no grand announcement of the end…
Data do not speak by themselves but will help end the pandemic
In their questioning of how to define the end of the pandemic, Robertson and Doshi…
Diagnosis and management of functional neurological disorder
AbstractFunctional neurological disorder (FND), previously regarded as a diagnosis of exclusion, is now a rule-in…
Covid-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now
This editorial by Peter Doshi and colleagues (BMJ 2022;376:o102, doi:10.1136/bmj.o102) originally stated that the Medicines and Healthcare…
“Wrongful conception”: the case for no-fault compensation
Evie Toombes seems to be an extraordinary person who has achieved so much in life…
“Wrongful conception” case: another black mark against general practice
A show jumper born with a neural tube defect has won a landmark case against…
Covid-19: Advice on wider use of FFP3 masks should extend to GPs, BMA says
FFP3 masks should be worn by staff caring for patients with suspected or confirmed respiratory…
Caring for patients with covid-19 in Afghanistan—another hard winter
How to donatePlease give generously to The BMJ’s appeal for 2021-22. Donations can be made…
Jane Bomford Davey
Jane Bomford Davey joined the Marsden in 1968 as the clinical assistant to Mr Peter…
Jean Horton
bmj;376/jan21_5/o155/FAF1faJean Horton was born into a medical family and was very proud to have attended…
Inspectors must take account of challenges faced by ethnic minority GPs, say leaders
Regulatory system failures that leave ethnic minority GPs fearing Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections and…
Campaign aims to increase hospital staff’s access to hot meals at night and at weekends
Hospitals are facing pressure from a grassroots staff campaign to provide hot, nutritious meals to…
Long covid in children and adolescents
Symptoms involving almost every organ system have been reported after SARS-CoV-2 infection.123 Estimates of the…