Behavioural fatigue: a flawed idea central to a flawed pandemic response
What is behavioural fatigue? Nobody really knows, but it is something we should be acutely…
What is behavioural fatigue? Nobody really knows, but it is something we should be acutely…
In April 2019 NHS Improvement announced a national programme to introduce a new medical examiner…
Who could disagree with Roderick and colleagues’ clear and sensible proposals for moving contact tracing…
Taken by surpriseDespite widespread criticism of significance testing, doctors, scientists, and journal editors continue to…
A fit and well man in his 60s presented to the dermatology urgent assessment clinic…
Last week heralded both the government’s latest obesity policy paper for England and the first…
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has exposed fundamental weaknesses in UK society. Some fragile systems, such as…
Obesity is a focus of political and media discussion, since multiple datasets have shown that…
In theory, the UK has a comprehensive notification system, set in statute, whereby all clinically…
I disagree with Khunti and colleagues that the report by Public Health England (PHE) on…
Covid-19Pre-surgery shielding is liftedPatients in England having elective surgery no longer need to self-isolate for…
The successful mitigation of covid-19 in a healthcare setting, as described by Liu and colleagues…
The UK government has urged medicine suppliers to stockpile six weeks’ worth of drugs as…
bmj;370/aug05_12/m3078/FAF1faAgness, a Ugandan midwife, listens to the heartbeat of a fetus in a photograph taken…
A senior coroner has demanded action by Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, to…
The authors are correct in that, normally, a positive anti-tissue transglutaminase antibody result should always…
Do the recent vaccine papers tell us anything new?There was a flurry of excitement last…
The study by Liu and colleagues is impressive—none of the 420 healthcare workers became infected…
Leicester was the first place in the UK to be singled out for a local…
bmj;370/aug05_5/m3091/FAF1faPhoto credit: Tsubara KawasakiNot many physicians have a disease named after them. Tomisaku (“Tomi”) Kawasaki,…
ABSTRACTPulmonary embolism is a common and potentially fatal cardiovascular disorder that must be promptly diagnosed…
When Chris Turner was a house officer near Edinburgh, he had to go to a…
In the paper by Ge and colleagues (BMJ 2020;369:m696, doi:10.1136/bmj.m696, published 1 April 2020), one…
MPs have set out their plans for an independent evaluation process designed to hold the…
I was both excited and disappointed to read Cylus and Smith’s article on the economy…
bmj;370/aug04_5/m3039/FAF1faStella Elizabeth Grace Gibson was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in 1927 to William Hamilton Gibson,…
The current NHS Test and Trace programme in England must significantly improve if schools are…
The UK government has spent £161m (€178m; $210m) on 5.8 million covid-19 testing kits, which…
On 29 July 2019, the Target Malaria insectary was opened at the Uganda Virus Research…
Around 40% of dementia cases worldwide could have potentially been delayed or prevented if 12…
An analysis of thousands of emails has shown the extent to which Coca-Cola sought to…
bmj;370/aug03_7/m3079/FAF1faAre you tired of hearing about covid-19? I am too. So, here’s a tirade about…
I understand from Habib’s article that Sweden’s decision not to mandate lockdown has been a…
The pandemic friendly greeting?No. We’re talking about the “second wave of the [covid-19] pandemic” that…
Sweden does not have a herd immunity strategy, and it is irresponsible for The BMJ…
Scotland is urging England and Wales to join Scotland and Northern Ireland in a four…
Three scientific organisations have proposed plans for the US to gain control of the pandemic…
The extent and severity of the long term respiratory complications of covid-19 infection remain to…
bmj;370/jul31_10/m3040/FAF1faTom Graham was a member of a select group of paediatricians in the army in…
A council in England has set up its own covid-19 contact tracing system because of…
People in Greater Manchester, Lancashire, and West Yorkshire are no longer allowed to have visitors…
Protective and enduring immune responses to viral infections or vaccines usually arise from the combined…
“Doctors from Africa and South Asia have supported NHS general practice since its inception, so…
In inner London, where we saw some of the earliest cases of covid-19 in the…
England had the longest period of excess mortality of any European country during the covid-19…
bmj;370/jul31_12/m3044/FAF1faFrom 1962 to 1993, Roy William Lamb (“Larry”) was a GP and anaesthetist in Stroud,…
My mother, Sushma Sharma, was born Sushma Jhinghan on 17 September 1932 in Balawali, Bijnore,…
bmj;370/jul31_9/m3042/FAF1faAfter qualifying Peter John Lewis Hunter decided to specialise in ophthalmology, and in 1947 he…
bmj;370/jul31_8/m3041/FAF1faKrishan Chandra Gupta was the first of his family to study medicine. He was a…
bmj;370/jul31_7/m3013/FAF1faPaul Anthony Bramley was consultant oral surgeon to SW Region Hospital Board (1954-69) and to…