Covid-19: Why we must temper urgency with diligence
How should we balance the need for speed with our duty towards care and rigour?…
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Hearing loss, exercise, . . . and other stories
Hearing loss and physical activityOlder people with hearing loss engage in less physical activity than…
Effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines on covid-19 related symptoms, hospital admissions, and mortality in older adults in England: test negative case-control study
AbstractObjectiveTo estimate the real world effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 and Oxford-AstraZeneca ChAdOx1-S vaccines against…
Pandemic lessons from India
In January 2021, global observers marvelled at India’s smooth passage through the first wave of…
Government should commit to making GP premises carbon neutral by 2030, say leaders
Local medical committees have urged the UK government to commit to making general practice premises…
Queen’s speech “lacks detail” on safe staffing, public health, social care reform, and covid inquiry
The UK government is facing criticism over gaps in commitments made in the Queen’s speech…
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How covid-19 revealed the scandal of medical oxygen supplies worldwide
It became known locally as “the massacre”: the day in August 2017 when the medical…
I am more than a body to stitch up and label
I live with scars that are both highly visible and largely unseen. At the age…
Diabetes: BMI cut-offs designed to trigger action are too high for some ethnic populations, say researchers
Researchers have called on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to revise…
Fashion forward face masks on display
bmj;373/may12_4/n1191/FAF1faThis week the Menswear Archive, based at Westminster University, launched Undercover: From Necessity to Luxury,…
Nearly 700 anaesthetists have training interrupted after cuts
Nearly 700 anaesthetic trainees will be unable to continue their training this year despite 680…
Airborne transmission of covid-19: reduce the viral load in inhaled air
The editorial by Tang and colleagues provides food for thought about long term control of…
Legal reforms would allow GMC to tackle “shameful” discrimination of ethnic minority doctors
The “shameful” discrimination experienced by too many doctors from ethnic minorities could be tackled under…
Covid-19: Government must invest in primary care to aid pandemic recovery, say leaders
Primary care is under “immense pressure” and needs investment, clear national priorities, and new mechanisms…
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Covid-19: “Exhausted” GPs need more support for future crises, says leader
The government must provide “real and meaningful support” to help general practice recover from the…
Covid-19: Caution urged while lockdown eases in England because of vaccine success
The effectiveness of covid vaccines in reducing infections, hospital admissions, and deaths means that lockdown…
Covid-19: FDA authorises Pfizer vaccine for children 12-15
US public health experts are to meet this week to decide how to use the…
Newer drug treatments for type 2 diabetes
Over 463 million adults worldwide live with diabetes today, and the prevalence is projected to…
Use of repurposed and adjuvant drugs in hospital patients with covid-19: multinational network cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the use of repurposed and adjuvant drugs in patients admitted to hospital with…
Supporting teams through the pandemic: nephrologist Reza Motazed
Times of adversity can bring out the best in people, and the work of the…
Treatment timing and the effects of rhythm control strategy in patients with atrial fibrillation: nationwide cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo investigate whether the results of a rhythm control strategy differ according to the duration…
Using the NHS App as a covid-19 vaccine passport
The NHS App is a safe and obvious choice for a vaccine passport, but IT…
Matt Morgan: Covid helped me travel, with colleagues as guides
As well as killing more than three million people worldwide, covid-19 has killed travel. Over…
Helen Salisbury: General practice on the brink
No sensible person setting out to build the NHS from scratch would reproduce what we…
Experimental treatments risk further medicalisation of menopause
Ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation (OTCT)—surgical procedures successfully used to restart ovarian function in young…
Covid-19: BMA demands better psychological support for trainees
The government, the NHS, and education bodies must provide better support for trainee doctors to…
Sixty seconds on . . . travel traffic lights
Green means go?From some countries, yes. As lockdown restrictions ease, the government has announced a…
Covid-19: Study claims real global deaths are twice official figures
Global deaths from covid-19 are not 3.27 million, as official figures suggest, but 6.93 million…
Covid-19: Doctors feel under pressure to work extra shifts unpaid, survey shows
Thousands of doctors feel under pressure from their employers to work extra shifts, often unpaid,…
Covid-19: How will a waiver on vaccine patents affect global supply?
Last week the Biden administration made the surprise announcement that the US would support a…
Covid-19: Don’t abandon mask wearing in schools, say health experts
Covid rules in England requiring secondary school pupils to wear face coverings in classrooms could…
Covid-19: UK offers under 40s alternative to AstraZeneca vaccine to boost confidence
Adults under 40 with no underlying health conditions that put them at risk of serious…
Fear and stigma remain in survivors of Africa’s Ebola epidemic
On 15 April, Guinea marked 12 consecutive days of no new confirmed cases of Ebola…
Covid-19: Investigation probes Bolsonaro’s role in Brazil’s failed pandemic response
A parliamentary investigation into the actions of President Jair Bolsonaro and his former ministers is…
Management of severe covid-19: progress and promise
Management of SARS-CoV-2 infection continues to evolve. For patients requiring hospital treatment, mortality can be…
Anna Rachel Lewis
bmj;373/may07_8/n1144/FAF1faAnna Rachel Lewis was born in Leicester on 24 January 1980 to Len and Kath….
Covid-19: Early stage cancer diagnoses fell by third in first lockdown
Diagnoses of early stage cancer in England fell by 33% in the first wave of…
Opportunities to prevent children dying from asthma are being missed, says safety watchdog
Children are dying preventable deaths because opportunities are being missed to recognise asthma as a…
Body mass index as socioeconomic indicator
Seven Days in Medicine, 17 AprilMembers of the UK parliament have called for an end…
Where are we with drug treatments for covid-19?
Where are the major trials for covid treatments?Dozens of large trials and hundreds of smaller…
Covid-19: Africa scrambles to increase genomic testing capacity as variants spread
As the world entered 2021, the covid-19 pandemic began a new phase, one dominated by…
Identifying and responding to domestic violence and abuse in healthcare settings
What you need to knowAsk about domestic violence and abuse (DVA) sensitively and respond in…
Remote management of covid-19: we could do more, more widely
Greenhalgh and colleagues’ useful guidance1 on the remote management of covid-19 using home pulse oximetry…
Corinne Alison Rees
bmj;373/may06_10/n1145/FAF1faCorinne Alison Rees (née Illingworth) often stressed the importance of listening and believed that diminishing…
Keith Glennie-Smith
bmj;373/may06_9/n1148/FAF1faKeith Glennie-Smith qualified at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School in 1951. The following year he…
Antony Graham Davies
bmj;373/may06_8/n1143/FAF1faAntony Graham Davies (“Tony”), a committed Quaker Christian, refused military conscription but accepted a post…
Hakim BenYounes
bmj;373/may06_7/n1149/FAF1faHakim BenYounes was born in Tripoli, Libya, on 6 October 1959. He graduated from Al-Fateh…
European regulators urged to crack down on missing clinical trial results
Transparency campaigners have urged national medicines regulators across Europe to take action to reduce the…
Public health needs to go back to basics, not rely on nudge theory
Poverty of scarcity was a major cause of health inequity in the 19th century.1 Poverty…
Andrew Ransford: orthopaedic surgeon who invented the Ransford loop
bmj;373/may06_4/n1160/FAF1faAndrew Ransford (“Andy”) was born in Kenya to Oliver Ransford, a doctor in the Colonial…