E-health StandingTall balance exercise for fall prevention in older people: results of a two year randomised controlled trial
AbstractObjectiveTo test whether StandingTall, a home based, e-health balance exercise programme delivered through an app,…
Author: British Medical Journal
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Reducing unnecessary red blood cell transfusion in hospitalised patients
What you need to knowRed blood cell (RBC) transfusions are frequently overused, and are associated…
Covid-19: All Johnson & Johnson vaccine in use is safe, says US regulator
The acting head of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gave reassurances on…
Covid-19: EMA defends AstraZeneca vaccine as Germany and Canada halt rollouts
The Oxford AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine is facing a further wave of scepticism and restrictions as…
Covid-19 vaccine passports: access, equity, and ethics
With millions of people receiving covid-19 vaccines globally, some countries have already started planning the…
You can’t stop the bleep
On my first day at The BMJ the biggest shock to my system, other than…
Lab leaks? . . . and other stories
The origin of the pandemicAt a recent press briefing, the World Health Organization team investigating…
Covid-19: Brazil’s spiralling crisis is increasingly affecting young people
Brazil continues to break records for all the wrong reasons as it faces its deadliest…
Covid-19 vaccination during Ramadan
Vaccine hesitancy has been reported among people and healthcare staff from ethnic minorities.1 This is…
Calorie labels in restaurants: the impact on eating disorders
After reading the article on the case for calorie labels in restaurants,1 I was disappointed…
David Anton: aviation doctor who investigated air crashes and became the first occupational physician with the RNLI
bmj;373/apr01_2/n868/FAF1faPhoto credit: UX Solutions PragueDavid Anton, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s first consultant occupational physician,…
Fresh evidence of the scale and scope of long covid
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the UK has so far affected more than four million people,…
Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospital with covid-19: retrospective cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo quantify rates of organ specific dysfunction in individuals with covid-19 after discharge from hospital…
Seven days in medicine: 24-30 March 2021
Covid-19Vaccines prevented over 6000 deaths in over 70sThe four million doses of covid-19 vaccines administered…
Update to living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19
This living guideline by Lamontagne and colleagues (BMJ 2020;370:m3379) has been updated. For the latest…
Experts call on government to “stand up for science” over potential {pound}2bn budget cut
Major cuts to science funding in the UK could undo years of progress and force…
Drug company Servier is found guilty of manslaughter and aggravated deceit over Mediator diabetes drug
The French drug manufacturer Laboratoires Servier has been found guilty of manslaughter, involuntary injury, and…
Covid-19: Doctor charged with murder as police investigate multiple patient deaths in Canadian hospital
A specialist in internal medicine has been charged with first degree murder following a cluster…
University of Southern California pays $1bn to women over alleged sexual assaults by gynaecologist
The University of Southern California (USC) has agreed to pay $852m (£618m; €727m) to 710…
Stamps deliver covid tributes
bmj;372/mar31_12/n847/FAF1faTwenty one countries and the UN have between them released 68 postage stamps to mark…
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Covid-19: Cancer care at home scheme is extended by NHS England
A scheme that has enabled patients in England with cancer to swap their treatments for…
David Oliver: When visitors return to the wards
During the peaks of the covid-19 pandemic serious restrictions were imposed on ward visits from…
Deranged liver function in pregnancy
A 26 year old Black African woman attended the emergency department at 11 weeks and…
Decreased visual acuity after a cat scratch
This is a fundus colour photograph of the eye of a woman in her 40s…
Slow death of the bleep: why hospital pagers won’t die
Pagers have been a staple of hospital communications for decades, but in 2019 the English…
Otitis externa
What you need to knowAcute uncomplicated otitis externa can be managed effectively with topical treatments,…
Using patient experience to run a hospital
Just days before she was due to start as director of patient experience at Northumbria…
Helen Rae Noblett
bmj;372/mar30_7/n827/FAF1faHelen Rae Noblett was a pioneering paediatric surgeon who came from Australia in 1976 to…
Tomorrow’s doctors, tomorrow’s leaders
More than a year since we first entered lockdown, much has changed in terms of…
Helen Salisbury: Triage is for disasters, not everyday general practice
In a crisis, you need triage. The term was widely used in the first world…
Matt Morgan: A pandemic in 15 minutes
Although I think I’m a “reflective” person, the mirror only really comes out when I…
Covid-19: India sees new spike in cases despite vaccine rollout
India is experiencing a sharp spike in covid-19 cases after months of numbers dropping. The…
Uncomplicated urinary tract infection in women
What you need to knowIn about a third of women with an uncomplicated urinary tract…
Environmental approaches to promote healthy eating: Is ensuring affordability and availability enough?
Improving diet is a key goal of public health, as a substantial fraction of global…
Asthma attacks seen in primary care halved in England during pandemic, study finds
GPs in England saw patient consultations for asthma exacerbations halve during the UK’s first lockdown,…
Covid vaccine: Prioritise over 16s living with immunosuppressed adults, says JCVI
People aged 16 or over who live with immunosuppressed adults should be prioritised for covid-19…
Guidance for the design and reporting of studies evaluating the clinical performance of tests for present or past SARS-CoV-2 infection
Testing for infection has a critical role in the response to the pandemic caused by…
JAMA editor is placed on leave after controversial podcast on structural racism
Howard Bauchner, the editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),…
Covid-19: US cases rise while vaccinations increase
The US reported more than 61 000 cases of covid-19 per day in the past…
Why I . . . practise yoga
Rabia Topan practises a form of yoga called Ashtanga Vinyasa, which synchronises movement with the…
Sixty seconds on . . . vaccine bribes
What’s on offer?Doughnut giant Krispy Kreme is offering “sweet support” to Americans who protect themselves…
PRISMA 2020 explanation and elaboration: updated guidance and exemplars for reporting systematic reviews
Systematic reviews are essential for healthcare providers, policy makers, and other decision makers, who would…
What has been the effect of covid-19 on suicide rates?
Not a week passes without a story in the press about the impact of covid-19…
The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
Systematic reviews serve many critical roles. They can provide syntheses of the state of knowledge…
Do doctors have to have the covid-19 vaccine?
We have a duty to protect patientsVageesh Jain, public health specialty registrar, University College London,…
Anti-amyloid trials raise scientific and ethical questions
Ackley and colleagues found that lowering brain β-amyloid levels in Alzheimer’s disease had no significant…
NHS backlog: Realism is needed about how far {pound}8.1bn will stretch, say health leaders
NHS England has set out an £8.1bn (€9.5bn; $11.2bn) plan to tackle the backlog of…
John F B Smith
bmj;372/mar26_7/n818/FAF1faJohn F B Smith trained at Dundee and Aberdeen Royal Infirmaries and then at the…
Catherine B G Strang
bmj;372/mar26_6/n813/FAF1faBorn in Leith, Edinburgh, Catherine Barbara Grace Strang (née Sinclair) attended James Gillespie’s School before…
David Goodwin
bmj;372/mar26_5/n764/FAF1faDavid Goodwin was the eldest of five brothers, whose father, Geoffrey, was a consultant anaesthetist….