Remdesivir in covid-19
The recent publication of an industry sponsored, open, non-randomised study of remdesivir in a heterogeneous…
Author: British Medical Journal
Ibuprofen can mask symptoms of infection and might worsen outcomes, says European drugs agency
The European Medicines Agency’s pharmacovigilance risk assessment committee (PRAC) has recommended updating the product information…
A “Deep Breath In” for GPs
“Deep breath in … and out. Again, deep breath in … and out.”We tune in…
The Brazilian slums hiring their own doctors to fight covid-19
Like many people around the world just now, those living in the São Paulo neighbourhood…
Covid-19: Care home deaths in England and Wales double in four weeks
New figures showing a sharp rise in the number of deaths in care homes in…
Bridging the quality gap in diagnosis and treatment of malaria
The rapid scale-up of malaria prevention and treatment over the past two decades has led…
David Oliver: What the pandemic measures reveal about ageism
Older age and a range of underlying medical conditions mean a higher risk of serious…
What will we learn from covid-19? That we live in an uncertain world
Salisbury asks what we might learn from the covid-19 pandemic.1 At times like this, we…
David William Young
bmj;369/apr21_23/m1604/FAF1faDavid William Young was consultant physician at Dudley Road Hospital (now City Hospital) in Birmingham…
Michael Joseph Noronha
bmj;369/apr21_22/m1603/FAF1faBorn in Dar Es Salam, Tanzania, where his parents had moved from Goa in India,…
Malcolm Keith Sykes
bmj;369/apr21_21/m1431/FAF1faMalcolm Keith Sykes was one of the most prominent British anaesthetists of the second half…
Viral load dynamics and disease severity in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Zhejiang province, China, January-March 2020: retrospective cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate viral loads at different stages of disease progression in patients infected with the…
Colin McIntosh
bmj;369/apr21_19/m1602/FAF1faAfter early education at Aberdeen Grammar School, Colin McIntosh went to Aberdeen University to study…
John V Dyer
bmj;369/apr21_18/m1600/FAF1faJohn V Dyer, the district medical officer of health for Lancaster and District from 1968…
John Ridley Pattison: the “man who wouldn’t lie” who chaired the government’s advisory committee on BSE
bmj;369/apr21_17/m1559/FAF1faIn 1995 the government appointed John Pattison chair of its advisory committee on bovine spongiform…
Norah Campbell
bmj;369/apr21_16/m1599/FAF1faNorah Campbell came from a primary class of 43 on a York council estate, and…
Covid-19: Trump stokes protests against social distancing measures
Protests against stay at home orders, temporary business closures, and other social distancing measures imposed…
Covid-19: doctors are warned not to go public about PPE shortages
As hospitals run out of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare staff fighting the…
Covid 19: death certification in England and Wales
Different views may be aired on the timeliness of the government’s overall response to the…
Helen Salisbury: Who is vulnerable?
The Easter bank holidays were cancelled for general practices at short notice, to take the…
Modelling the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed much about public policy, including the extent to which politicians…
Matt Morgan: Hold onto your red thread
My Welsh comprehensive school education stood me in good stead for rugby, but less so…
Covid-19: UK pledges to reintroduce contact tracing to fight virus
The government is to reintroduce contact tracing of people who have had symptoms of covid-19,…
Covid-19: Brazil’s president rallies supporters against social distancing
Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has fired his popular health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, after weeks…
Covid-19: increasing demand for dialysis sparks fears of supply shortage
More than a quarter of patients with covid-19 on ventilators also need renal support in…
Covid-19: US governors call for government help to secure more tests
US governors have called on the federal government to help them get more covid-19 testing…
Covid-19: Government appoints former Olympics chief to lead PPE production drive
The former head of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics has been appointed to lead…
Cannabis-based medicinal products: summary of NICE guidance
What you need to knowThe rescheduling of cannabis-based medicinal products (CBMPs) allows their prescription when…
Tackling covid-19: are the costs worth the benefits?
It is hard to write about the economics of covid-19 while we are grappling with…
Covid-19: public health experts demand evidence behind UK’s short self-isolation advice
Public health experts have called for the government to publish the evidence behind the UK’s…
Covid-19: We need to be open about rationing ventilators
Why aren’t we being more explicit about the ever changing problems around ventilators?1234 The Italians…
Covid-19: Experts question guidance to reuse PPE
Doctors have expressed concern over new guidance from Public Health England that recommends reusing personal…
Covid-19: the precarious position of Spain’s nursing homes
More than 10 000 older people in Spain have died in the covid-19 pandemic, while…
Partha Kar: What will come after the covid-19 crisis?
As we enter deeper into the covid-19 lockdown there’s a confused smog of data, speculation,…
Sixty seconds on . . . the RECOVERY trial
What’s this?The Randomised Evaluation of covid-19 therapy (aka RECOVERY)1 is one of the largest national…
Covid-19: “Steady the front line! There is no retreat from here”
As an ex-army surgeon and a military historian, we have previously felt uneasy about healthcare…
Covid-19, prison crowding, and release policies
The emergence of covid-19 has again raised the issue of prisons as incubators of infectious…
Covid-19 is an opportunity for gender equality within the workplace and at home
Anneliese Dodds was giving her first interview as the UK’s shadow chancellor on 6 April…
Managing COVID-19 symptoms (including at the end of life) in the community: summary of NICE guidelines
What you need to knowPut treatment escalation plans in place for patients with COVID-19 because…
Is ethnicity linked to incidence or outcomes of covid-19?
The novel disease covid-19, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, is now a…
Covid-19 is shattering US cancer care
A patient in Washington, newly diagnosed with breast cancer, fought to get her lumpectomy surgery…
Covid-19: Government cannot say whether NHS will run out of protective gowns this weekend
NHS staff may not have enough protective gowns this weekend because of a severe shortage…
Covid-19: Disproportionate impact on ethnic minority healthcare workers will be explored by government
The government has said that it will investigate why covid-19 seems to be having a…
A European roadmap out of the covid-19 pandemic
Europe has been hit especially hard by the covid-19 pandemic, with Italy, Spain, and France…
Covid-19: state governors assert control over US response as Trump struggles for a role
A constitutional showdown between US states and the federal government over control of social distancing…
Clinical features of covid-19
In January 2020, coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was identified as the cause of an outbreak of severe…
Covid-19: Cancer Research urges mass testing to enable care to continue during pandemic
Cancer Research UK has called for widespread covid-19 testing to ensure that patients and staff…
Pablo Goetz
bmj;369/apr17_14/m1560/FAF1faPablo Goetz was a meticulous consultant neurosurgeon, father of two, devoted husband—and the most humble,…
What organisations around the world are doing to help improve doctors’ wellbeing
Keeping staff connectedLucy Warner, chief executive of NHS Practitioner Health, says, “At this difficult time…
Keep older healthcare workers off the covid-19 front line
Even with appropriate personal protective equipment, coronavirus infections will occur.1 Clearly, the greatest risk factor…