Poverty status is linked to worse quality of care
People living in England’s most deprived areas of England seem to receive the worst quality…
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Europe’s drug regulator wins court backing for data transparency policy
The European Union’s highest court has decisively upheld the European Medicines Agency’s right to publish…
Meningitis vaccine: cases fall in UK, but herd immunity remains elusive in Australia
The UK’s infant vaccination programme against group B meningococcal disease has resulted in a significant…
Investing in humanity: The BMJ’s divestment campaign
How do we restore hope for humanity? Many of us feel despair at a disintegrating…
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
What you need to knowConsider Duchenne muscular dystrophy in boys with delayed motor milestones, positive…
When medical information comes from Nazi atrocities
I first met the Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy1 in 1982, when I…
Running for deputy leader of the Labour Party: five minutes with . . . Rosena Allin-Khan
“I’m a doctor first. I didn’t become an MP to stop being a doctor. Working…
Yeshi Dhonden: personal physician to the 14th Dalai Lama
bmj;368/jan23_9/m201/FAF1faCredit: The Tibetan Herbal Clinic, IndiaYeshi Dhonden, the foremost Tibetan doctor in the world, has…
CQC to reinspect dozens of care homes after uncovering “duplicate material” in reports
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is to carry out dozens of reinspections of care and…
Blinding may be unnecessary, but please divest
In the hierarchy of evidence, randomised trials are near the top, trumped only by meta-analysis…
Scurvy in children . . . and other stories
ScurvyScurvy once occurred in seafarers and long distance travellers. Currently, the most vulnerable group seems…
Better health and wellbeing for all
The imminent change of leadership at the top of the World Health Organization’s European region…
An unexpected side effect of gardening
This is a picture of phytophotodermatitis (fig 1).bmj;368/jan23_4/l6969/F1F1f1Fig 1The patient was a 50 year old…
Syncope in a young woman
A previously well and active 25 year old woman with no underlying structural heart disease…
Value of kindness: “I went to the doctor and he didn’t even look at me”
The title of Klaber and Bailey’s editorial, Kindness: an underrated currency, conceals a greater wisdom…
Kindness: “Hello, my name is” badges have helped
I agree with Klaber and Bailey that we should all try to be more kind…
Brian Bartley
bmj;368/jan22_10/m151/FAF1faAfter enjoying national service as an army captain in Hong Kong and undertaking an obstetrics…
John Phillips Mckay
bmj;368/jan22_9/m153/FAF1faJohn Phillips Mckay was the loving husband of Marjorie of blessed memory, a much loved…
Jeannette Alexandra Smith
bmj;368/jan22_8/m154/FAF1faJeannette Alexandra Ferguson was born on Guernsey, the daughter of Alexander and Emily Ferguson and…
Jonathan Maw
bmj;368/jan22_7/m152/FAF1faDane Stephen Jonathan Maw, known as Jonathan, was born in Bath on 8 September 1937….
Perinatal management for premature babies should be multidisciplinary and personalised
We read the new framework from the British Association of Perinatal Medicine1 and The BMJ’s…
Gillian Bluck
bmj;368/jan22_11/m150/FAF1faGillian Bluck (“Gill”) was the daughter of a Methodist preacher and a Methodist lay preacher….
US cancer centre leaders secretly worked for China, internal report finds
Six researchers who resigned last month from Florida’s Moffitt Cancer Center admitted to opening secret…
Assisted dying: Belgian doctors stand trial in landmark case
Three Belgian doctors—two GPs and a psychiatrist—are being accused of unlawfully killing a 38 year…
The struggle for GPs to get the right care for patients with gender dysphoria
Gender dysphoria can be difficult terrain for primary care doctors. Gender identity and gender dysphoria…
How to be involved in peer teaching
In peer teaching, learners are taught by those similar in age or at a similar…
David Oliver: The risks of discharging patients early against doctors’ ȷudgment
On 13 January the BBC reported the contents of an internal email to doctors from…
Helen Salisbury: The gaps in our knowledge
At medical school we learn to recognise the patterns of symptoms and physical signs that…
Primary care networks: NHS England under pressure to rein in its ambitions
Mounting unrest over the proposed new terms and conditions for general practices to participate in…
Trump administration moves to lower nutrition standards in schools
Donald Trump’s administration has announced plans to roll back US school food nutrition standards introduced…
Antibiotic resistance: more companies are withdrawing sales reps or incentives in order to limit use, finds report
Pharmaceutical companies are tackling the overselling of antimicrobials by withdrawing their sales agents or removing…
Cast in stone: university honours female pioneers
bmj;368/jan21_12/m246/FAF1faStonewestThe names of Florence Nightingale, Alice Augusta Ball, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie have been added to…
Partha Kar: What will the 2020s hold for diabetes care?
I’ve been reflecting on how much has changed in diabetes care over the past decade…
NoGrazie: an Italian initiative against commercial influence in health
I write on behalf of NoGrazie (http://www.nograzie.eu/), an Italian movement of health professionals and citizens…
Consultant is struck off for dishonesty over case of girl who died from meningococcal septicaemia
A consultant in emergency medicine has been struck off the UK medical register after a…
Impact of blinding on estimated treatment effects in randomised clinical trials: meta-epidemiological study
AbstractObjectivesTo study the impact of blinding on estimated treatment effects, and their variation between trials;…
Blindsided: challenging the dogma of masking in clinical trials
Evidence based medicine compels us to challenge assumptions and dogma. Health interventions should be subject…
Man bites dog: India’s progress in tackling rabies
Gowri Yale, a veterinarian with a PhD in rabies epidemiology, was manning a 24 hour…
River blindness in East Africa: gains and losses
Fifty year old Santina Apoto is a mother of five children and lives in a…
People deserve safe access zones around clinical areas providing abortion care
On 1 January 2019, abortion care became more widely available in the Republic of Ireland….
Fool’s gold? Why blinded trials are not always best
The essence of blinding is withholding information about treatment assignment from people involved in the…
Taking legal action against improper disclosure of interests
Moynihan and colleagues suggest ways in which healthcare decision making could become free of commercial…
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China coronavirus: cases surge as official admits human to human transmission
More than 200 confirmed cases of infection with the novel coronavirus have emerged in China,…
Rules suspending doctors’ pension benefits in cases of crime are “inherently unfair,” says ȷudge
Rules allowing NHS pension benefits to be suspended if a doctor is charged with a…
Distancing design of phase III trials from drug company influence
Moynihan and colleagues propose ways to produce healthcare evidence independent of commercial interests.1The design of…
New drug treatments for cystic fibrosis
When the discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene was announced in October 1989 at a…
What is the best method for managing early miscarriage?
What you need to knowGuidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommend…
Role model: Tamsin Greenwell
Tamsin Greenwell, a consultant urologist and honorary associate professor at University College London, was originally…
Sixty seconds on . . . the NHS funding bill
This sounds importantMinisters would like you to think so. The newly re-elected Conservative government has…
Call-out culture demands perfection from everyone except oneself
Reticence and etiquette hampered “calling out” when face to face interactions were the norm.1 But…