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Studies that compare health outcomes across countries generate lively headlines (especially when the UK does…

What’s new in the guidanceNew recommendations on inducing remission in people with mild to moderate…

bmj;367/oct28_4/l6165/FAF1faAlthough Ian McKim Thompson was born in Knutsford, Cheshire, he always identified with Birmingham and…

bmj;367/oct28_3/l6163/FAF1faGeorge Edward Foster was born in Liverpool. Encouraged to study medicine by his mother, he…

bmj;367/oct28_2/l6166/FAF1faAfter qualifying as a doctor, my grandfather, Gholam-Ali Beski, set up a hospital, a school…

bmj;367/oct28_1/l6161/FAF1faPatricia Arbuckle (“Pat”) did house jobs in Edinburgh before moving to Manchester with her husband,…

Findings from the NHS early notification scheme12 might be grim reading, but they will be…

A coroner has criticised an NHS trust for “suboptimal care” and “missed opportunities” in the…

The abolition of primary care trusts in England as part of the 2012 Health and…

An outbreak of vaping related lung disease in the US state of Utah was related…

Healthcare professionals need training on how to refer homeless patients treated in emergency departments to…

Income inequality is growing,1 fuelling both right wing populism2 and demands for progressive, inclusive policies….

In April 2019 the BMA commissioned an independent review into concerns raised by two members…

Wallace describes the pace that GPs implement new prescribing guidelines as “suboptimal,”1 but a better…

As Gerada points out,1 the high rate of mental health problems and suicide among doctors…

The Care Quality Commission has published the results of a survey of patients who had…

Emergency medicineClosures are “not linked to rise in deaths”The closure of hospital emergency care departments…

Learning to operate in grey areas is part of the science and art of medicine….

O’Donnell and colleagues provide useful evidence of the short term effect of minimum unit pricing…

Politicians must not resort to “vote winning gimmicks” in an attempt to reduce waiting times…

A 25 year old woman was admitted with a five day history of worsening shortness…

What you need to knowAlthough emollients alone can help reduce the symptoms of eczema and…

This is a slit lamp picture of anterior lens capsule fibrosis (fig 1, red arrows)…

The BMA has called the government’s plans to make the NHS pension scheme more workable…

AbstractObjectiveTo measure the association between phenotypic drug resistance and the risk of tuberculosis infection and…

I was teaching economics at the Harvard School of Public Health when, in 1988, I…

Diet in mothers and childrenMaternal diet influences fetal development and may have a lifelong impact…

The NHS in Scotland is rapidly running out of time to reform the way care…

Taking antihypertensive medicine at bedtime is associated with improved blood pressure control and a near…

The main purpose of our paper was to inform readers of the protean manifestations of…

A hospital consultant who was suspended from the UK medical register over sexual and profane…

A new charity will develop best practice and training in social prescribing, the UK government…

The UK government must take urgent action to improve low levels of physical activity around…

Ah yes, let’s all raise a glass . . .Not that kind of toast. We’re…

An Alzheimer’s drug that failed in two phase III trials and was abandoned as valueless…

Over the past 15 years, my caseload of patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS)4 has increased…

In this article by Luke Pilling and colleagues (BMJ 2019;364:k5222, doi:10.1136/bmj.k5222, published 16 January 2019)…

Implementation of a new primary care model for Wales has been patchy, and not enough…

bmj;367/oct23_7/l6121/FAF1faThe youngest of three boys, Peter Martin Sweeney was brought up in Ealing, west London,…

Last week Helen Salisbury wrote in her BMJ column about the fear of getting things…

Propensity scores1 have become a cornerstone of confounding adjustment in observational studies evaluating outcomes of…

AbstractObjectiveTo determine the extent to which late stage development of new drugs relies on support…

Ghali and colleagues give an overview of Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and their increasing public awareness…

Ghali and colleagues discuss the clinical updates of Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS).1 Ophthalmic manifestations have been…

AbstractSarcoidosis is a highly variable granulomatous multisystem syndrome. It affects individuals in the prime years…

Abortion in Northern Ireland has been decriminalised from 22 October after the UK parliament stepped…

The humanitarian aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has taken the “difficult decision” to suspend…

The agency that regulates drugs in Europe is nervously awaiting the outcome of an industry…

“I was finishing my masters in global health and came across some references to buyers…

“I saw you out running the other day, doc.” Given the choice, would you prefer…