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Nimmo explains why she doesn’t want to be addressed as mum.1Given that we are encouraged…

A study by UK researchers has highlighted the potential financial advantages of using respiratory inhalers…

The US electronic cigarette company Juul has been accused of shipping one million contaminated e-cigarette…

What you need to knowThis guideline update focuses on maintaining remission in people with ileocolonic…

Since the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland on 22 October,1 women have been attending…

Mike Richards’s independent review of adult screening programmes in England is out and can be…

The national guidelines on research integrity have been updated to clarify the requirements for universities…

What are the long term health needs of women with a history of sexual trauma?…

Football for prostate cancerTwo hundred men with prostate cancer were randomised either to an offer…

Doctors specialising in general internal medicine are part of the acute medical care workforce. Their…

This is pyoderma gangrenosum (fig 1) triggered by trauma from a tattoo.bmj;367/oct31_5/l5765/F1F1f1Fig 1The patient was…

A 44 year old woman with hypertension and type 2 diabetes (treated with insulin) presented…

The cautionary tale about Hans Eysenck is as much about hubris as hypothesis.1 Hypothesis based…

Social prescribingNew academy will develop best practiceThe Department of Health and Social Care announced a…

Pierce and Bourton raise an important point on the need to emphasise the carbon impact…

Allergan has agreed to pay $750m (£580m ;€680m) to settle claims from a group of…

Nearly 900 children under 12 are among 1112 cases of HIV infection now confirmed in…

Van Hove and Leng say that metered dose inhalers are a similar price to dry…

Van Hove and Leng, of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), are…

The government has announced that 78 NHS trusts in England will receive funding over the…

Nominations have opened for the 2020 BMJ Awards, which will once again celebrate outstanding achievements…

The Health Foundation recently published a report on emergency hospital admissions from care homes.1 The…

Van Hove and Leng raise some very valuable points on how the healthcare sector could…

Dolly Sen from Norfolk remembers being an inpatient in a bay on a mental health…

bmj;367/oct29_10/l6261/FAF1faPeter Oliver Behan was from a humble background in Athy, County Kildare, Ireland. He was…

bmj;367/oct29_22/l6268/FAF1faRichard H SmithHidden away in a quiet part of London SW3, on the edge of…

A new vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) has shown more than 50% efficacy in protecting people…

A national NHS mobile app was announced last year as a new way for patients…

bmj;367/oct29_17/l6267/FAF1faElizabeth Donald Hibbard started her professional life in Aberdeen, caring for sick children. She then…

bmj;367/oct29_16/l6266/FAF1faAfter a couple of false starts—one as a senior house officer in Belfast and another…

bmj;367/oct29_15/l6263/FAF1faStephanie Michelle Clarke (“Steph”) was a bright and talented young doctor with a stellar career…

If, as Kar suggests,1 you look at the four hour target—which says that 95% of…

As mentioned by Kar,1 four hour targets—where 95% of patients attending emergency departments should be…

In their article on prognostic models for predicting outcome in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary…

bmj;367/oct29_11/l6262/FAF1faTurabali M H Chakera (“Turab”) was born in Dar Es Salaam, Tanganyika (now Tanzania, Africa),…

bmj;367/oct29_9/l6259/FAF1faNeville Woolf was a respected pathologist and a dedicated educator and mentor, who made important…

bmj;367/oct29_8/l6220/FAF1faIn 1983, after a pay award to doctors that was far greater than that for…

It happens to us all . . .True, but research by the independent think tank…

Clinical academia is very difficult because you have to be simultaneously good at two different…

“Don’t get old, doctor,” my patients often advise me. However, we always end up agreeing…

I’ve recently been considering whether quality improvement is as accessible as it’s often made out…

Patterns of violence over the past 20 years have followed a sustained downward trend according…

A template letter for patients who have been “refused” hormone replacement therapy to send to…

Senior NHS leaders have called for the UK’s largest group of registered homoeopaths to have…

Justice is being delayed and families traumatised because there are too few paediatric experts willing…

Chen is right to point out the importance of empathy in being a good doctor.1…

A computer algorithm used by many US hospitals to predict risk and allocate follow-up resources…

Considerable confusion exists over the terms used for the goals of prevention.1 To eradicate (or…

A San Diego physician who writes hundreds of medical vaccination exemptions a year has become…

Delegates at the annual conference of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Liverpool applauded…