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Gun lawsAfter motor vehicle crashes, firearms related injury is the leading cause of death among…

What you need to knowIn patients with newly diagnosed colorectal cancer, order a test for…

A 9 year old boy presented with a sudden onset atraumatic painful purplish red indurated…

It would be a tragic irony if something as fundamentally benign and beneficial as doctors’…

I am one of thousands of senior doctors facing a situation where my pension, once…

Drug deathsEngland and Wales report all time highSome 4359 deaths were related to drug poisoning…

The scale of the NHS pension crisis is becoming clear. Surveys by the BMA,1 the…

A key component of the NHS long term plan was a set of commitments on…

I have always struggled with my weight, even as a child. When I was aged…

The prospect of lengthening NHS waiting lists and a consultant exodus to avoid massive tax…

A salaried GP who worked shifts at an out-of-hours service while claiming sick pay from…

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating nearly 100 cases of…

If a 90 year old is climbing ladders, should your first instinct be to congratulate…

The journals Transplantation1 and PLOS One2 have retracted 15 articles reporting studies from China in…

The aspiration to be a good doctor is probably common to us all, but what…

Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of reproductive healthcare to low income women in the US,…

The prime minister, Boris Johnson, has said that urgent action is needed to boost the…

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has expressed concern about drug shortages in a no-deal Brexit despite…

A longstanding belief that doctors could safely remain silent at medical practitioners tribunal hearings and…

bmj;366/aug20_2/l5207/FAF1faHundreds of millions of people in the world play chess, but fewer than 2000 are…

AbstractClostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium) is a major cause of healthcare associated diarrhea, and is increasingly…

Have you looked outside? Summer’s overThese lollies aren’t designed to cool you down on a…

Dozens of former patients at a psychiatric hospital who claim that they were experimented on…

Doctors have warned that the current situation in Indian administered Kashmir, where the government has…

The independent inquiry into Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust announced in June 20191 is the…

When James Swarray, a health officer in Sierra Leone, stepped into the red zone on…

The headlines about late diagnosis of cancers feed into a false narrative that misleads the…

Yes we can do better than blaming general practitioners for late cancer diagnoses.1 But the…

A review of NHS health checks—which will look at tailoring checks based on risk and…

“A major misconception is that mentioning a connection between mental illness and violence will increase…

bmj;366/aug16_3/l5168/FAF1faAlexander Finlay Wright, known universally as Alastair, was a man who refused to accept conventional…

bmj;366/aug16_2/l5170/FAF1faPhilip Milton Kollitsis was the consultant ear, nose, and throat surgeon at the Princess Mary’s…

bmj;366/aug16_1/l5169/FAF1faK S Chengappa died in Bangalore, India, on 11 June 2019. He was 91 years…

A consultant obstetrician who was responsible for guidelines on treating victims of female genital mutilation…

Advances made in diabetes care over the past decade have not translated into improved outcomes…

A general practice in Warrington, Cheshire, has been criticised for writing to a patient advising…

Clinicians should treat non-bullous impetigo—a highly contagious bacterial infection of the skin—with a topical antiseptic…

The NHS has declared a national emergency incident in response to an ongoing shortage of…

The drug company Aspen may have to pay the NHS £8m (€8.7m; $9.7m) after an…

“Prehabilitation” prepares people for cancer treatment by optimising their physical and mental health through needs…

What you need to knowTendon reflex testing allows lower and upper motor neurone lesions to…

The frequency of social media use is unlikely to cause direct harm to young girls,…

Global measles cases are the highest they have been since 2006, with almost three times…

A clinical trial conducted in the midst of an Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic…

In the July 2019 cabinet reshuffle prompted by a new Conservative prime minister, Nadine Dorries…

Ten weeks into political protests that have shaken Hong Kong, doctors and other healthcare workers…

Expensive drugs to treat cystic fibrosis have been rejected for use on the NHS in…

Mental health responses for people caught up in terror attacks are often inadequate. Internationally, existing…

Caroline Moore, professor of urology at University College London, says that her first failure was…

Two GPs who prescribed opioids online without verifying patients’ self reported medical histories have been…