A boy with annular erythema on the nose
A 4 year old boy presented with annular erythema on his nose. The lesion had…
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Inoculated warts by eyebrow tattoos
These are viral warts on the eyebrows of a woman in her late 20s (black…
David Oliver: Were Nightingale units and fever hospitals ever workable responses to covid-19?
Research has found that around one in nine inpatients with covid-19 acquired it while in…
Associations of BNT162b2 vaccination with SARS-CoV-2 infection and hospital admission and death with covid-19 in nursing homes and healthcare workers in Catalonia: prospective cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo determine associations of BNT162b2 vaccination with SARS-CoV-2 infection and hospital admission and death with…
Lack of agreement forces NICE to pause publication of ME/CFS guideline
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has paused the planned publication of…
Ian MacGillivray: gynaecologist and obstetrician with expertise in twin pregnancies
bmj;374/aug17_8/n2036/FAF1famacgillivray110821.f1As young boy, Ian MacGillivray, the son of a carpenter, jumped over a fence and…
Helen Salisbury: Lifelong lessons in learning
When I first became a GP registrar (having made a happy escape from a hospital…
Matt Morgan: Caring for unvaccinated patients
As some intensive care units fill up once again, the patients with covid-19 feel almost…
Joseph Edward Briffa
bmj;374/aug17_4/n1983/FAF1faJoseph Edward Briffa (“Joe”), latterly a consultant anaesthetist at the Kent and Sussex Hospital in…
Association between characteristics of behavioural weight loss programmes and weight change after programme end: systematic review and meta-analysis
AbstractObjectiveTo determine if the characteristics of behavioural weight loss programmes influence the rate of change…
Different approaches to making and testing change in healthcare
Improving the quality of healthcare is complex. It requires input not just from healthcare providers…
Decision making and responsibility are two distinct parts of ownership in medicine
In his article on ownership in medicine, Morgan mentions two distinct salient features of clinical…
Doctors call for ban on virginity testing and hymenoplasty
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has urged the government to introduce a…
Haiti rocked by earthquake
bmj;374/aug16_11/n2035/FAF1faRichard Pierrin/GettyHaitian lives were again devastated last Saturday by a second major earthquake in just…
Profiteering from vaccine inequity: a crime against humanity?
Early in the pandemic, Pfizer announced an intention to profit from its covid-19 vaccine.1 In…
Sure Start children’s centres prevented 13 000 hospital admissions a year, study estimates
Around 13 000 admissions of children to hospital each year were likely to have been…
Covid-19: Cases in children rise sharply in US as doctors call for vaccine approval
Children too young to be vaccinated are increasingly becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the US,…
Covid-19: Children born during the pandemic score lower on cognitive tests, study finds
Children born during the pandemic score markedly lower on standard measures of verbal, motor, and…
Failure to prescribe: UK workers with occupational long covid-19 have been ignored
Workers with long covid will raise major questions and challenges for UK governments.12 In 3872…
Prolonged solitary confinement of UK immigration detainees during the pandemic
Alan Mitchell, the first doctor to be elected president of the European Committee for the…
Intradermal covid-19 vaccination could solve supply problems
Covid-19 vaccines save lives and mitigate illness, but there is simply not an adequate supply…
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Covid-19: Two vaccine doses are crucial for protection against delta, study finds
The two dose regimen of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine is 88% effective against symptomatic disease…
Do overly complex reporting guidelines remove the focus from good clinical trials?
Yes—Jeremy Howick, Rebecca Webster, and J André KnottnerusIn 1996 a group of medical journal editors,…
Supporting victims of sexual assault: the forensic medicine doctor
“It can be difficult work but knowing that we offer patients somewhere to get help…
Tom Duncan
bmj;374/aug13_10/n2001/FAF1faTom Duncan was born in Perth and educated initially in Paris. He subsequently trained in…
Covid-19: China pressured WHO team to dismiss lab leak theory, claims chief investigator
A World Health Organisation mission to study the covid pandemic’s origins in China, which announced…
Covid-19 laboratory leak hypothesis: a convenient scapegoat
Debate on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is being conducted mainly in the world…
Covid-19 laboratory leak hypothesis: extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence
Thacker’s piece on the laboratory leak hypothesis does not provide much clarity for readers on…
Covid-19: Cases rise in South Korea, China, and Philippines as protests erupt in Thailand
Protests have broken out in Thailand, with demonstrators calling for the prime minister, Prayuth Chan-o-cha,…
Kenneth Roland Kidd
bmj;374/aug13_15/n2002/FAF1faKenneth Roland Kidd (“Ro”) was in his own modest way a leading light in the…
Malcolm Yorston
bmj;374/aug13_14/n2009/FAF1faMalcolm Yorston was born in Manchester. His father, Sydney, was a manager for the Petroleum…
John Thurston
The Grand Order of Water Rats, the entertainment industry’s charity, has lost its only Companion…
Allan C Prentice
bmj;374/aug13_12/n2004/FAF1faAllan C Prentice spent his early years in Shetland and Edinburgh, before attending Madras College…
Gwen Douglas
bmj;374/aug13_11/n2000/FAF1faGwenth Jean Elizabeth Douglas (“Gwen”), who has died at the age of 100, was a…
Eli Gajraj
bmj;374/aug13_9/n1986/FAF1faEli Gajraj was born in Bangalore. He was only 49 years old when he died…
Philip da Costa
Philip da Costa was born and grew up in Kenya, where healthcare access was determined…
Luna Sharmila Vishwanath
bmj;374/aug13_7/n1987/FAF1faMy mother, Luna Vishwanath, was born and brought up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, surviving the Bangladesh…
William Ian Campbell
My father, William Ian Campbell, was a recent president of the British Pain Society. He…
Covid-19 laboratory leak hypothesis: how a few kept the many from considering alternative possibilities
Thacker’s comprehensive review of the Wuhan laboratory leak hypothesis makes for uncomfortable reading.1 That a…
Wellbeing at medical school: feeling prepared
As we head towards the end of the summer break and into the start of…
Covid-19: One in nine patients in hospital with covid during first wave became infected after admission
Around one in nine hospital patients who had covid-19 during the first wave of the…
England’s health and care bill neglects service users’ voice
The health service in England is undergoing its first major legislative reform in almost a…
Placental growth factor in assessment of women with suspected pre-eclampsia to reduce maternal morbidity: a stepped wedge cluster randomised control trial (PARROT Ireland)
AbstractObjectiveTo determine whether the addition of placental growth factor (PlGF) measurement to current clinical assessment…
Leaders call for NHS funding boost as data show 5.5 million patients are waiting for routine care
Healthcare leaders have called for more funding for the NHS as data show that 5.45…
GPs need awareness about post-covid ME/CFS
Wise reports that general practitioners might be under-reporting long covid in patient records.1 Approximately 25%…
Covid-19: Schools are not hubs of infection and are safe to reopen after summer break, study shows
The prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in schools in England was lower in June this…
Medical specialties—the reality and the myths
Stereotypes based on innocent ignorance“I chose psychiatry after my placement at Guy’s Hospital, where I…
“I feel like a spare part”
PreparationThe majority of work for the ward round occurs in the preparation.What to do before…
Sixty seconds on . . . digital clinical safety
Uh-oh, sounds like a three letter acronymDigital clinical safety (DCS—yes, another TLA) refers to the…
Funding boost aims to expand England’s medical school places
Growing demand for medical school places is to be met with additional funding of as…