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bmj;366/sep23_7/l5662/FAF1faVarun Kumar Singh was born in Akbarpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, on 26 April 1948. He…

bmj;366/sep23_6/l5620/FAF1faKenneth Michael Citron studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital, London, where he won the Golding Bird…

The article about cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome as part of the Easily Missed? series is most…

On 5 March 2019 the US Food and Drug Administration approved esketamine nasal spray in…

Combining doctors’ communication skills with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can help clinicians improve patient care…

What you need to knowUnexpected weight loss can be associated with cancer, but also with…

Governments around the world should invest significantly more in primary healthcare, the World Health Organization…

Montgomery and colleagues say that burnout is associated with sleep deprivation, medical errors, poor quality…

Adult critical care admissions to English hospitals have increased by 22% since 2011-12, new figures…

The current system of penalty charge notices, which is supposed to discourage people from claiming…

Healthcare innovation and product development are currently happening at an unprecedented speed. New insights and…

Montgomery and colleagues rightly identify organisational responsibilities for many of the contributors to medical burnout.1…

The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) sertraline reduces anxiety and improves quality of life and…

The prevalence of vaping among teenagers in the US has more than doubled since 2017,…

Burnout is not a diagnosis, but a normal biologically mediated response to system dysfunction. Individuals…

India’s government has announced that it will ban e-cigarettes by cabinet decree, capping a disastrous…

A prominent consultant ophthalmologist has been struck off the UK medical register after a tribunal…

Hear ye, hear yeSome people might prefer not to. This week, the UK press1 reported…

This past April, 35 teams of students aged 18 years and younger from Australia, India,…

Antibiotics and colorectal cancerAn enormous case-control study—nearly 30 000 cases matched to 140 000 controls—reports…

A 15 year old girl presented with a painful rash around her mouth. It started…

As miracle cures are hard to come by, any claims that a treatment is 100%…

This is a picture taken during funduscopy of a hypopigmented albinotic fundus, indicative of ocular…

DiagnosticsNew blood test predicts prostate cancerA blood test for circulating tumour cells has been found…

Could a new test really end biopsy misery, as the headlines claim?Don’t rush your fences….

Physician associates should, of course, be regulated, as should all staff in close contact with…

bmj;366/sep18_8/l5618/FAF1faWalter Sefton Suffern was born in Belfast and educated at Leeds Grammar School and Leeds…

bmj;366/sep18_7/l5617/FAF1faMian Allahdin was born in the village of Mukhad in Pakistan and was passionate about…

bmj;366/sep18_6/l5611/FAF1faPaul Leslie Gordon Townsend was one of the fathers of reconstructive microsurgery nationally and internationally….

Last month the prime minister pledged a one-off payment of £25m (€28m; $31m) to boost…

AbstractObjectiveTo determine the safety and efficacy of aerobic exercise on activities of daily living in…

What you need to knowEhlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) are inherited connective tissue disorders with variable severity;…

bmj;366/sep17_10/l5591/FAF1faUntil recently everything was going great for the e-cigarette industry in the US: its products…

Embryo toxicologists at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin have been asked to investigate the…

Lack of access is still the main factor hindering vaccine coverage and must not be…

bmj;366/sep17_12/l5604/FAF1faPASarah Thomas, 37, an open water ultra-marathon swimmer, has become the first person to swim…

bmj;366/sep17_11/l5580/FAF1faCredit: Louis Reynold: International People’s Health Movement People’s Health University in Kisumu, KenyaIn 2010 in…

MPs are pressing England’s health secretary, Matt Hancock, for an inquiry into urology services at…

NHS England is “committed to exploring and developing alternative routes” to enable people with cystic…

My phone screen flashes as another email arrives. A solid block of justified text, dense…

The U=U campaign (undetectable means untransmittable, see box) seeks to publicise the science that shows…

A temporary resident recently attended our practice after coughing up blood. The likely cause was…

What you need to knowBenefits to health start at just 30 minutes of physical activity…

This week the World Health Organization launches a new global initiative aimed at making healthcare…

Only a third of women in England take up the three cancer screening services offered…

Rimmer asks whether bringing back the firm could improve teamwork and morale.1 Considerable evidence shows…

A no deal Brexit would have disastrous consequences for patients and public health services on…

Are we in Silicon Valley?Not quite. The UK government is launching its latest foray into…

“It’s important that we, as a profession, recognise that migration is a topic that is…

Leung and Porter’s article on candour and apologising promotes a legal angle on incident disclosure…