UKFPO needs to make clear what evidence it is using
The letter from the UK Foundation Programme Office (UKFPO)12 makes the puzzling and unreferenced statement…
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Medical students’ opinions should be valuable to institutional decision making
My initial reaction to the changes1 was similar to those I saw online: this decision…
Online exhibition celebrates rise of women in general practice
bmj;374/aug03_10/n1932/FAF1faThis portrait, by Christian Furr, of Lotte Newman, who became a Royal College of General…
Exclusive: Four members of NICE’s guideline committee on ME/CSF stand down
Four members of the NICE guideline development committee for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) left…
Corporate ventriloquism undermines action on alcohol harms
Alcohol remains a serious global health concern, with a pressing need to reduce consumption among…
Clare Gerada: Happy birthday, NHS
On 5 July 2021 the NHS had its 73rd birthday. To mark this occasion, I—along…
Roopa Dhatt: How a simple statistic helped put women on the global health map
In 2015, practising physician Roopa Dhatt and her colleagues wangled their way into the World…
Intellectual property waiver for covid-19 vaccines will advance global health equity
By late June 2021, 46% of people in high income countries had received at least…
How can I keep in touch with colleagues?
Virtual communication is essentialSabrina Das, obstetrician and gynaecologist with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Yemen,…
Adapting interventions to new contexts—the ADAPT guidance
Interest is growing in adapting evidence informed interventions for implementation in new contexts.1234Box 1 provides…
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 is not the same as covid-19
Both professionals and the Department of Health and Social Care are still failing to distinguish…
Dementia risk in professional footballers is linked to player position and career length, study finds
The risk of neurodegenerative disease in former professional footballers varies by the position they play…
Covid 19: Most patients in England received good or excellent care in hospital, finds analysis
Most patients admitted to hospitals in England with SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 received good care despite…
Amanda Pritchard becomes first woman to lead NHS England
The former chief executive of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust will take up…
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Restraint, flexibility, engagement, and communication are vital
This year’s handling of foundation programme recruitment has been a failure, and at the April…
Covid-19: Delta infections threaten herd immunity vaccine strategy
Epidemiologists are adjusting their expectations for the future course of the pandemic after data from…
Review of UKFPO required: unrepresentative, uncommunicative, and uncompassionate
When I submitted my application for the situational judgment test on Oriel an error occurred—my…
Nobody should have been subȷected to that experience—students need more support
The situational judgment test counts for half of the final educational performance measure for final…
Purnell W Choppin: led the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from hope to prominence
bmj;374/aug02_1/n1887/FAF1faPhoto credit: Paul FettersHoward Hughes was one of the most flamboyant billionaires of the mid-20th…
US bill ends some restrictions on global funding of abortion and reproductive health
The US House of Representatives passed a spending bill without the usual restrictions on abortion…
Covid-19: Pfizer vaccine’s efficacy declined from 96% to 84% four months after second dose, company reports
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine’s efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 peaked at 96.2% at seven days to two months…
Sixty seconds on . . . cupping
Up for the cup?Some people are. The alternative therapy of cupping—thought to have originated in…
MHRA to shed a fifth of its workforce in post-Brexit cost cutting drive
The UK’s drug and medical devices regulator is to lose a substantial number of staff…
Michael David Cameron
bmj;374/jul30_8/n1891/FAF1faDuring the second world war, Michael David Cameron (“Mike”) was evacuated from his preparatory school…
Jay Soorya Sarkar
bmj;374/jul30_7/n1899/FAF1faJay Soorya Sarkar was born in Dehri, a small town in the state of Bihar,…
George Weir Johnston
bmj;374/jul30_6/n1894/FAF1faWith a twinkle in his eye, George Weir Johnston liked to describe himself as a…
Richard Nicholas Ovenden
bmj;374/jul30_5/n1897/FAF1faRichard Nicholas Ovenden (“Nick”) worked as a GP in Kingsland, Herefordshire, from 1965. He built…
David Walter Millard
bmj;374/jul30_4/n1895/FAF1faDavid Walter Millard can be regarded as an unsung hero of psychiatry, who applied his…
Richard Christopher David Greenhall
bmj;374/jul30_3/n1892/FAF1faRichard Christopher David Greenhall devoted the whole of his professional life as a neurologist to…
A sunshine payment act for the UK
On 8 July 2020, First Do No Harm—the report of the Independent Medicines and Medical…
Subacute small bowel obstruction or chronic large bowel obstruction
What you need to knowAlthough the features of acute bowel obstruction are usually clinically obvious,…
Covid-19: NICE issues guidance on vaccine induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis
Patients who are acutely unwell with suspected vaccine induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) should…
General practice needs rescue package to prevent burnout and preserve care, warns RCGP
General practice is at “breaking point” and needs an emergency rescue package to ensure that…
Undermined and undervalued: how the pandemic exacerbated moral injury and burnout in the NHS
“I can’t describe to you how desperate it was. Every single day there was an…
Charities, patients, and researchers are working together to find the cause and effective treatments for ME/CFS
As a charity that funds biomedical research into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), we are…
Chronic fatigue syndrome and long covid: individualisation, not compartmentalisation
Newman’s investigation of chronic fatigue syndrome and long covid supports the development of specialised multidisciplinary…
Covid-19: Evidence used to support mass lateral flow testing was flawed, experts say
Experts in medical testing have expressed concern at the way data were collected in key…
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Covid 19: More US institutes, universities, and businesses make masks mandatory as cases rise sharply
President Joe Biden is expected to announce on 29 July a requirement for federal government…
Long covid: reshaping conversations about medically unexplained symptoms
Newman’s article, a linked patient commentary, and the tranche of rapid responses show how “long…
Introducing BMJ Medicine
The covid-19 pandemic has been accompanied by an explosion in scientific discourse across mainstream media,…
Covid-19: Countries dump vaccines as demand slumps and sharing proves difficult
The US, the UK, and the Netherlands face throwing away tens of thousands of covid-19…
Life expectancy: White people in England and Wales had worst outcomes before pandemic, data show
White men and women in England and Wales had lower life expectancy at birth than…
Covid-19: China stymies investigation into pandemic’s origins
Prospects for a serious accounting of the origins of the covid-19 pandemic seemed more distant…
Conflicted and confused? Health harming industries and research funding in leading UK universities
University researchers face growing expectations to engage with commercial sources of funding. This pressure is…
Restarting NHS cardiovascular care after covid-19
“The past year has been stressful because getting hold of a medical professional has been…
Covid-19: One third of trainees are affected by burnout, GMC survey finds
The covid-19 pandemic has increased the level of burnout in trainees and risks reversing recent…
Major incident declared at two London hospitals after severe flooding
One of England’s largest hospital trusts was forced to declare a major incident at two…
National food strategy: what’s in it for population health?
It is not easy to eat well in the UK. Less healthy food is cheap,12…
Diagnostic accuracy of rapid antigen tests in asymptomatic and presymptomatic close contacts of individuals with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection: cross sectional study
AbstractObjectiveTo assess the diagnostic test accuracy of two rapid antigen tests in asymptomatic and presymptomatic…
Doctors’ pay: BMA to ask consultants if they would consider industrial action over award
Consultants in England will be surveyed on whether they wish to consider any form of…