Sepsis: digital monitoring improves outcomes by alerting clinicians to deteriorating patients, study finds
A digital monitoring system for sepsis that alerts clinicians to signs of deterioration helped to…
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Health professionals should promote environmentally sustainable lifestyles
McErlean makes the excellent point that health professionals, by maintaining physically active lifestyles, can set…
Doctors criticise Indian government’s advice to delay oxytocin at childbirth
Doctors and maternal health experts have questioned the scientific rationale and ethics of an Indian…
What a Johnson or Corbyn government might mean for the NHS
The 2019 general election will be the UK’s third in four years, making rather a…
The Daily Mail’s U turn on MMR vaccination
Although once overwhelmingly opposed to the combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, last month the…
Helen Salisbury: A chronic problem with language
When I was instructed some years ago that the term “chronic disease” had been replaced…
Has Labour lost its traditional lead on the NHS?
This election may be styled as being about “getting Brexit done,” an issue that continues…
Platelet rich plasma injection for acute Achilles tendon rupture: PATH-2 randomised, placebo controlled, superiority trial
AbstractObjectiveTo determine whether an injection of platelet rich plasma improves outcomes after acute Achilles tendon…
Concerns raised with speak-up guardians are steadily rising
The number of concerns reported to the NHS’s “freedom to speak up guardians” has been…
Ranking countries on how they resist tobacco industry’s influence—where is Australia?
The ambition to rate nations for their efforts to keep the tobacco industry from interfering…
Labour promises increased NHS funding and free dental care
We’re another week into the election campaign, and politicians from the two major parties are…
Duty of care versus patient confidentiality: High Court hears test case on Huntington’s disease
The High Court in London is hearing a case that will clarify the duty of…
NHS will reimburse next year’s pension tax bill on retirement, doctors are told
Doctors in England will be encouraged to pick up extra shifts this winter with the…
Charles Jencks: architectural historian, landscape architect, and co-founder of Maggie’s Centres
bmj;367/nov19_9/l6592/FAF1faPhoto credit: Maggie Cancer Care CentresCharles Jencks, landscape architect, critic, and author of 30 books…
Tory immigration plan threatens to worsen NHS workforce crisis
The Conservative Party’s plan to increase and extend the health surcharge, the fee that immigrants…
EU drug approval should include price evaluation, says expert panel
New drugs should not be approved for sale in the European Union (EU) unless pharmaceutical…
Ageing and inequality: why do some elderly people not seek advice and help more routinely?
“We always end up agreeing that the alternative is worse,” writes Helen Salisbury about consultations…
Dealing fairly with racist patients
bmj;367/nov19_6/l6575/FAF1faRacism is an odious human trait. It is also a major problem in a healthcare…
Diagnosis and treatment of sciatica
What you need to knowSciatica is a clinical diagnosis based on symptoms of radiating pain…
Screening for cytomegalovirus infection in pregnancy
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common cause of congenital infection, affecting 0.5-2% of all live…
Exercise schemes lead to small health improvements but impact is still unclear, claims study
Exercise referral schemes lead to small improvements in patient health, but the size of these…
NICE guidance on hypertension in adults: take blood pressure tablets at night, measure blood pressure at home
Recent NICE guidance1 was unable to take into account the recent Hygia chronotherapy trial, results…
Cost of drugs prescribed in primary care continues to fall
The cost of drugs prescribed in primary care fell by 2.8% in 2018-19, data from…
Locum oncologist is struck off for failing to arrange cancer treatments
A locum consultant who repeatedly failed to follow through after assuring patients with cancer that…
King’s College London clarifies details of inquiry into publications by Eysenck and Grossarth-Maticek
The BMJ’s news article on Rod Buchanan’s claims regarding papers by Hans Eysenck and Ronald…
Staff shortages are affecting cancer care in Scotland, cross party group warns
Chronic staff shortages and inadequate funding are hindering efforts in Scotland to improve cancer survival…
EU financial watchdog criticises lack of progress in tackling antimicrobial resistance
The European Union’s strategy to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has failed to deliver significant results,…
Study records improved blood flow within a month of replacing cigarettes with vaping
Switching from cigarettes to an electronic equivalent has prompt and significant benefits on vascular function,…
Role model: Ian Morrison
Despite working in a busy department at the Royal London Hospital, Ian Morrison thinks it…
New safeguarding arrangements: identifying children outside the system
Ambitions to safeguard children and promote their welfare rightfully demand national impetus. Recent legislative changes…
Expanding child safeguarding might dilute core protection activities
Green discusses the implications of changes to children’s safeguarding services and calls for more emphasis…
China’s organ donation figures appear to be falsified, study claims
China’s organ donation numbers appear to have been systematically manipulated and falsified, according to new…
Sexism at the BMA: the ordinary BMA doctor has moved forward
It is unfortunate that in her otherwise depressingly accurate editorial Jane Dacre unwittingly misrepresented the…
Mycobacterium tuberculosis: concentrate resources on recent infections
Behr and colleagues1 conclude that tuberculosis (TB) has a much shorter incubation time than previously…
It’s the workforce, stupid: five minutes with . . .Mark Britnell
“I consider the workforce challenge to be the greatest crisis that healthcare faces globally. Quite…
Retired and retiring consultants: an unrecognised and undervalued resource
Cuts in job advertisements and the lack of trainees have been blamed for the shortage…
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GP to appeal decision that failure to refer patient for heart tests led to spinal injury
A GP who was found liable for a serious spinal injury sustained by a patient…
Judith Mary Hockaday
bmj;367/nov15_4/l6512/FAF1faJudith Mary Hockaday (née Fitzsimons) was both of Irish stock and from a strongly medical…
NHS is facing one its “bleakest” winters after worst ever performance on key targets
Doctors have been warned that the NHS faces a “bleak” winter, as the latest figures…
Inequality matters
Medicine has a class problem. While other professions have made progress in recruiting more students…
US rule would strip science from environmental policies and increase premature deaths, warn scientists
Decades of landmark public health studies on matters such as air pollution and water quality…
Blood markers to diagnose Parkinson’s . . . and other stories
Biomarkers for Parkinson’s diseaseScreening 1000 different proteins in blood samples from people with Parkinson’s disease…
Sixty seconds on . . . #WonderfulWomenDo
What do wonderful women do?Presumably lots of things, but this particular campaign focuses on women…
Climate crisis threatens gains in life expectancy, report warns
If the world follows a “business as usual pathway” in relation to the climate emergency,…
Should medical schools relax academic admission criteria?
Yes—Drew TarmeyI’m not about to argue for the removal of all standards and benchmarks for…
Delivering cost effective healthcare through reverse innovation
The process of reverse innovation, where ideas originating in low resource settings are adopted by…
Shut out: the medical profession’s intractable class problem
In 2012 the UK government’s social mobility adviser lambasted the medical profession. Too few people…
Umbilicated papules on the face
A 5 year old boy presented with a three month history of multiple mildly pruritic,…
Rupioid syphilis
This is rupioid syphilis in a 22 year old man with HIV.Multiple, black, crusted lesions…
How to become a physician in obstetrics and gynaecology
Although there is an option to choose one or the other, most consultants in obstetrics…