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bmj;368/jan10_6/m46/FAF1faAnthony Edgar Steel trained in London and held various positions, mainly at Hammersmith Hospital. In…

bmj;368/jan10_5/m48/FAF1faCalum Og MacRae originally intended a career in obstetrics but took over his uncle’s general…

bmj;368/jan10_4/m45/FAF1faFor generations of Edinburgh physicians, the answer to a complex neurological problem was to seek…

bmj;368/jan10_3/m43/FAF1faAlfred Myer Burnford (“John”) was born in New Zealand. He was a month short of…

General internal medicine is mainly a hospital inpatient specialty, with some outpatient work in rapid…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first African head of the World Health Organization, experienced universal health…

Prominent NHS and academic leaders have warned that health research is facing a crisis that…

A High Court judge has sent the case of a professor who undertook private work…

Staff working in mental healthcare are at “breaking point” as they try to handle rising…

About one in four doctors in specialty and associate specialist (SAS) and “locally employed” (LE)…

AlcoholNew commission calls for doctors to share evidence on harmHealthcare professionals were asked to submit…

In a 2007 poll 11 300 BMJ readers voted on the greatest medical advance since…

This picture shows eczema coxsackium, an atypical presentation of hand, foot, and mouth disease caused…

Incidental findingsNearly 50 years ago, Ivan Illich in his book Medical Nemesis accused modern medicine…

Three subsidiaries of the Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva, including Teva USA, will pay $54m (£41m;…

An NHS plan to provide urgent care to patients without admitting them to hospital to…

An outbreak of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China, has prompted authorities in neighbouring…

Sokol describes the Red Card to Racism campaign launched by North Bristol NHS Trust to…

The UK government has asked the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to…

AbstractObjectiveTo examine how a healthy lifestyle is related to life expectancy that is free from…

Working as a clinician is physically and emotionally intense, often leaving little time to drink…

When I arrived at the emergency department my movements were uncoordinated, I had difficulty balancing,…

Sometimes, taking the scenic route during a career can help remind you why being a…

In response to pressure, mainly from civil society, the European Medicines Agency introduced a policy…

I recently had a big birthday, one that allows me to have a free London…

The Samoan government’s decision to suspend the national immunisation programme after two paediatric deaths (later…

As a junior doctor, there’s no escape from feedback.Multiscore feedback at least once a year…

On 13 November 2019 two cases of plague pneumonia, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis,…

“There is a brilliant recent paper1 from a team including Michael Marmot emphasising yet again…

The BMA says that the government should tackle inequalities in physical activity in the UK.1…

Just a fifth of patients (19.4%) who underwent emergency laparotomy and who had signs of…

Life expectancy has improved remarkably over the past four decades thanks to improved medical and…

New Zealand has a shortage of medical staff across many different fields. The Royal New…

The government has pledged £40m (€47m; $53m) to cut the time it takes staff in…

I support Taylor’s call for research findings to be shared with the patients who took…

An artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to read mammogram images and identify breast cancer “outperformed”…

Doctors in India have condemned police violence towards people protesting against the government’s changes to…

He Jiankui, the researcher and entrepreneur who in 2018 announced the birth of the world’s…

A short film featuring famous footballers including Frank Lampard, Jesse Lingard, and Dele Alli will…

A histology independent cancer drug targets all solid tumours with a certain genomic mutation, regardless…