All intensive care patients must have access to community rehabilitation, leaders urge
Rehabilitation leaders have called for the government to ensure that all intensive care patients are…
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Covid-19: public health leaders have been exceptional, but we need a whole new approach to society
Abbasi underestimates the personal and professional impact of leading through covid-19.1 I know where our…
Covid-19: Lateral flow tests in care homes failed to stop outbreaks, finds study
Lateral flow tests did not reduce the number or scale of covid-19 outbreaks in England’s…
East Kent trust pleads guilty to criminal offence of unsafe care over baby’s death
A hospital trust has pleaded guilty to the criminal offence of failing to provide safe…
Midlands trust told to take urgent action over care of young people with mental health needs
A hospital trust that is already at the centre of a large inquiry into maternity…
Birmingham council sets up task force to tackle high rate of infant mortality
A task force has been set up to tackle the high rate of neonatal mortality…
Covid-19: Pregnant women should be offered Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, says UK advisory committee
Pregnant women should be offered the Pfizer BioNTech or Moderna covid-19 vaccine at the same…
Beauty services firm backtracks on NHS staff ban
Benefit Cosmetics has reversed a policy to ban NHS workers who had treated covid-19 patients…
Paul Cosford: public health supremo
bmj;373/apr19_7/n994/FAF1fa“I love my job,” said Paul Cosford in a post reflecting his highly honed communication…
How can I succeed in a virtual consultant interview?
Present yourself at your bestRebekah Bourne, consultant forensic psychiatrist, Birmingham and Solihull NHS Mental Health…
There is a real danger that covid-19 will become entrenched as a disease of poverty
Since reaching a height of around 70 000 confirmed covid-19 cases a day in England…
The methodological quality of individual participant data meta-analysis on intervention effects: systematic review
AbstractObjectiveTo assess the methodological quality of individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis and to identify areas…
Sixty seconds on . . . dog bites
Who let the dogs out?Good question. Arguably you could say it was Prime Minister Boris…
Covid-19: US reports low rate of new infections in people already vaccinated
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention knows of about 5800 “breakthrough” infections of…
Covid-19: NHS will take at least a year and a half to recover, doctors warn
Most doctors think that the NHS will take at least 18 months to recover from…
Geoffrey Norman Marsh
bmj;373/apr16_8/n963/FAF1faGeoffrey Norman Marsh, a GP in Norton, Stockton on Tees, helped to transform general practice…
Covid-19: Irish GP who refused to vaccinate patients is suspended
An Irish GP who refused to vaccinate his patients against SARS-CoV-2 and referred to media…
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Buddhadasa Dharmawansa Weerasinghe
bmj;373/apr16_6/n985/FAF1faBuddhadasa Dharmawansa Weerasinghe (“Das”) died unexpectedly but peacefully at the age of 89. He was…
Shelagh Elizabeth Milne
bmj;373/apr16_5/n964/FAF1faBorn in Maidstone, Kent, Shelagh Elizabeth Marmion was the first from her school to study…
Brian Michael Thomas
bmj;373/apr16_4/n984/FAF1faBrian Michael Thomas was a distinguished gastrointestinal radiologist with a particular interest in barium enemas…
David Charles Taylor
bmj;373/apr16_3/n976/FAF1faDavid Charles Taylor was a world renowned psychiatrist who specialised in the connections between severe…
David Stuart
bmj;373/apr16_2/n974/FAF1faDavid Stuart was born in 1927 in Kitale, northern Kenya, to an American mother and…
Polycystic ovary syndrome: why widening the diagnostic criteria may be harming women
The 2018 International Guidelines1 for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) were intended to standardise diagnosis and…
Unilateral nipple rash in a man
A man in his 50s was referred to the breast surgery clinic with a one…
Weightlessness, health, . . . and other stories
Space travelThe cleverness of rocket scientists is legendary, but Minerva sometimes wonders if they’ve fully…
Covid-19: Vaccine woes highlight vital role of traditional public health
Covid-19 still dominates the global consciousness and therefore The BMJ’s coverage. This is unlikely soon…
Moist lesion in the third webspace of the fingers
This is interdigital candidiasis in a patient in her 70s (fig 1). Interdigital candidiasis, a…
NHS waiting list hits 14 year record high of 4.7 million people
Pressure is growing on the government to take urgent steps to tackle waiting time figures…
Consequences of covid-19 on the childhood obesity epidemic
Senthilingam describes the growing obesity epidemic and rightly identifies that the covid-19 pandemic presents opportunities…
Rehabilitation after critical illness
Covid-19 has raised public awareness about critical illness, but there has been less focus on…
Seven days in medicine: 7-13 April
Covid-19Rapid testing rolled out to everyone in EnglandEveryone in England is now able to order…
US regulator says abortion pills can be dispensed by post—temporarily
The US Food and Drug Administration will allow American women to get the two pill…
Covid-19: Single dose of Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine produces strong antibody response in over 80s
A single dose of the Pfizer or Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine produces equivalent antibody responses five…
Covid-19: India authorises Sputnik V vaccine as cases soar to more than 180 000 a day
India has seen a sharp rise in new coronavirus infections with more than 180 000…
Covid-19: Suicide rates were static in rich countries in first months of pandemic, study finds
Numbers of suicides in high and upper middle income countries remained largely unchanged or were…
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Reconsider this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic games
The government of Japan and the International Olympic Committee are determined to hold the Olympic…
Thrombosis after covid-19 vaccination
Despite early confusion over efficacy and the initial paucity of data in older age groups,1…
Health of women and children is central to covid-19 recovery
Covid-19 has widened longstanding health and socioeconomic inequalities affecting women and children. The effects will…
Covid-19: How AstraZeneca lost the vaccine PR war
Hailed as a “vaccine for the world” with its low price and easy storage requirements,…
David Oliver: What price the Nolan principles for public office holders?
In 1995 the UK government’s Committee on Standards in Public Life published seven principles for…
Rammya Mathew: Women in leadership—not ȷust an unattainable ideal
Last month, as part of International Women’s Day celebrations, the BMA hosted a webinar with…
UK deaths in 2020: how do they compare with previous years?
The covid-19 pandemic caused huge loss of life last year. The attribution of deaths to…
The cause of obesity is multifactorial but GPs can do more
Though the causes and ways to treat obesity are many,1 the medical profession in general,…
Covid-19: US suspends Johnson and Johnson vaccine rollout over blood clots
US regulators have paused the rollout of the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) covid-19 vaccine after…
Covid-19: Chinese vaccines may need changes to improve efficacy, admits official
China may need to replace its coronavirus vaccines or change the way they are administered…
Drug treatments for covid-19: living systematic review and network meta-analysis
In this living systematic review and network meta-analysis by Reed Siemieniuk and colleagues (BMJ 2020;370:m2980…
Helen Salisbury: Will additional roles save general practice?
I love being a GP, but right now it feels like an impossible job. Demand…
Covid-19: Government faces legal action over contract for antibody tests
The non-profit organisation the Good Law Project has been given the go ahead to mount…
Group issues plea to PM over “wall of hearts” memorial
bmj;373/apr13_7/n947/FAF1faWill RoseBereaved families are asking the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, to allow the National…
Covid-19: EU investigates four reports of blood clots after Janssen vaccine
The European Medicines Agency is investigating four reported cases of unusual blood clots with low…