Author: British Medical Journal

The BMA is seeking general practices to join a potential legal challenge against NHS England…

Blockchain is the digital technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin (box 1). In essence…

Yes—Duane J GublerThe global spread of epidemic dengue over the past 50 years underscores the…

These are unhealed wounds (fig 1) (with ulceration, skin eruption, and yellowish exudates) on the…

A 16 year old boy presented to the ear, nose, and throat (ENT) outpatient clinic…

Radiography and cancerHigh energy radiation damages DNA and causes cancer. Even transient exposures, of the…

General practices vary considerably in how quickly they adopt new prescribing guidance, an analysis of…

van Schalkwyk and colleagues advocate for health and wellbeing to be considered as a priority…

The UK government has announced new measures to tackle the current shortages of hormone replacement…

As van Schalkwyk and colleagues note, we have little information about the government’s planning to…

A panel of international experts has recommended against routine testing of everyone aged 50-79 for…

AbstractObjectiveTo estimate benefits and harms of different colorectal cancer screening strategies, stratified by (baseline) 15-year…

The US Food and Drug Administration has asked doctors and patients to return certain batches…

I am concerned that a law firm is offering, for a fee of £1500 plus…

The Home Office is reconsidering the case of a GP trainee who has lived and…

Eaton summarises accessible defibrillators in the UK; I note that parts of Wales are much…

Immediately on taking a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), most people have some genital anaesthesia.1…

What you need to knowMore than 90% of duodenal ulcers are linked to H pylori…

I recently woke to news headlines claiming that NHS hospitals were admitting “1000 dementia patients…

The number of medical school places in England should double from 7500 to 15 000…

The international movement pushing to increase transparency by giving patients easy access to their health…

bmj;367/oct02_1/l5761/FAF1faCaroline Merula Deys was born in London on 2 July 1938 to Adolf Deys and…

bmj;367/oct01_18/l5818/FAF1faAmbulance crews and other emergency service teams, including this Mexican Red Cross team, have been…

A consultant anaesthetist who said he turned to viewing images of child sexual abuse to…

A scoring system designed to identify deteriorating patients in secondary care is “creeping” into primary…

An emergency station is often included in objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) at UK medical…

The call for knife crime to be tackled as a “public health matter”1 is welcome—but…

A recent news item in The BMJ1 reported that a trial of the antiviral vaccines…

A healthy term baby boy, delivered vaginally, was presented on the day of his birth…

The studyTaylor RS, Walker S, Ciani O, et al. Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for chronic heart…

Adults should continue their current consumption of red meat and processed meat, say the recommendations…

Mindfulness has recently been heavily promoted as a solution to the high levels of burnout…

One of the roles assigned to GPs is that of “gatekeeper” to the NHS. We…

A fifth of doctors (21%) have experienced or witnessed sexual harassment in the workplace over…

In the NHS, as in health systems worldwide, patients are exposed to risks of avoidable…

To every thing there is a season?Why not? Setting aside a week or a month…

The government has announced a £2.8bn (€3.1bn; $3.4bn) hospital building programme in England that will…

We agree with Johnson that our sample including eight cohorts might not be representative of…

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is not doing enough to identify potential conflicts…

The cofounder of the campaign group Doctors for Extinction Rebellion1 has called on the General…

The UK Statistics Authority has written to the Department of Health and Social Care asking…

Ekelund and colleagues report a non-linear dose-response between all levels of physical activity and mortality.1…

“The documentary Under the Knife is about the undermining and privatisation of the NHS. It…

ABSTRACTElectronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are alternative, non-combustible tobacco products that generate an inhalable aerosol containing nicotine,…

How common are outdoor smoking bans?While much less common than indoor bans, they are catching…

“Maintain patient confidentiality”Ellie Mein, medicolegal adviser at the Medical Defence Union, says, “Unfortunately, online complaints…

bmj;366/sep27_10/l5755/FAF1faJohn Richard Edmondson-Jones (“Jack”) entered RAF Cranwell and graduated in 1949, being presented with the…

bmj;366/sep27_9/l5756/FAF1faWhen Cyril Cooling won the coveted Bucknill scholarship to enter University College Hospital in 1941…

Three air pollutants—nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter (PM10), and sulfur dioxide—separately and together are associated with…

Despite its preparations, the government still has much work to do to ensure that the…