Covid-19: Coronavirus was first described in The BMJ in 1965
The first description of human coronavirus—a family of viruses that now includes SARS-CoV-2, the cause…
The first description of human coronavirus—a family of viruses that now includes SARS-CoV-2, the cause…
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The Japanese government has announced that it will extend the state of emergency to the…
bmj;369/apr16_7/m1514/FAF1faRonald Wellesley Pigott was born in Isfahan, Persia (now Iran), the son of a general…
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Research is urgently needed to help understand the mental health consequences of the covid-19 pandemic…
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A man in his 50s presented with a one week history of left sided ptosis…
An NHS locum registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology who internally examined a patient so roughly…
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The UK government’s pledge to boost covid-19 testing for staff in care homes must be…
Healthcare lawyers and doctors’ defence bodies have said that national guidance is urgently needed on…
President Donald Trump has announced that the US has officially halted its funding to the…
The World Health Organization and South Korea are investigating how several covid-19 patients who were…
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A man has been jailed for six months for punching an emergency department doctor who…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) worst ever Ebola outbreak is back on, at…
The death toll in England and Wales is at its highest level since weekly statistics…
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Nearly 90% of pregnant women admitted to hospital for delivery who test positive for SARS-CoV-2…
Covid-19 outbreaks in care homes expose serious inadequacies in social care services across the UK….
In the United States, black people are being admitted to hospital and dying in disproportionate…
The covid-19 pandemic is a rapidly developing global emergency. Healthcare providers are facing critical time…
Gerada says the General Medical Council is the bogeyman,1 but I think the legal process…
A GP who ran a medical report writing “factory” and abused his position of trust…
A UK hospital trust has been granted a High Court injunction requiring an overstaying patient…
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s latest report—State of Child Health 2020—continues to…
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Climate change is a devastating threat to global health.1 Gill and colleagues draw our attention…
A wellbeing area for staff and volunteers at the NHS Nightingale Hospital in east London…
Quarantine is effective at reducing incidence and mortality during the covid-19 pandemic, according to a…
Antibody tests to determine whether someone has had covid-19 will not be available until at…
As the NHS Nightingale hospitals attract widespread publicity,1 clinically led innovation is quietly—and quickly—transforming practice…
The precautionary principle is, according to Wikipedia, “a strategy for approaching issues of potential harm…
Japan has declared a month long state of emergency in seven major prefectures after a…
Doctors and nurses working at the new emergency Nightingale Hospital in east London will be…
A hospital trust was “inappropriately slow” to act after a series of investigations into poor…
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International doctors’ support initiative—Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustDedicated programme narrowed career development…
The volume of information you need to learn in a short space of time for…
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In 1983 I was working as a clinical scientist in Sheffield, at the Medical Research…
A 14 year old girl with facial asymmetry presented with increasing irritation of a right…
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Africa, so far the continent least affected by covid-19, registered 10 268 confirmed cases and…
Donald Trump has warned that the US could stop funding the World Health Organization, as…
For years I had experienced complex, unexplained symptoms. Symptoms such as frequent episodes of dizziness…