Author: British Medical Journal

This is reticulated hyperpigmentation with multiple erosions and superficial ulceration on the back of a…

Health systems everywhere are still reeling from the effects of the pandemic,123 a fact shaping…

Looking after someone requires something that cannot be boughtMy mum being a nurse makes the…

Tranexamic acid after major trauma“It is hard to imagine that doctors or paramedics would withhold…

β blockers in stable ischaemic heart diseaseAlthough β blockers substantially reduce all-cause and cardiovascular mortality…

More drug companies and organisations are launching legal action over the US government’s plan to…

A trainee psychiatrist from London who worked with elderly patients has been jailed for six…

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published an alert after five…

The NHS has reached 75, but the mood among staff isn’t celebratory. The past few…

I was born on a houseboat on the upper reaches of the river Thames. Summer…

As Basatemur mentions,1 bacterial meningitis is a notifiable disease. Clinicians have a duty to notify…

The ongoing conflict in Sudan has inflicted immense suffering, compounded by devastating attacks on healthcare…

bmj;381/jun27_7/p1461/FAF1faCredit: modbiomed/QMULRonald Bradley was the UK’s first professor of intensive care—and a modest, gentle man…

What you need to knowAcknowledging chronic pain as a diagnosis in its own right can…

Network meta-analysis (NMA) allows assessing the comparative effectiveness of multiple interventions by combining direct and…

It’s widely acknowledged that the NHS is “in crisis” in both England and Wales. Are…

Saliha Mahmood Ahmed makes delicate, final touches to her three course menu. It starts with…

In April 2023, Imperial College London, in partnership with the British Red Cross, hosted a…

UK taxpayer money designated for overseas aid is being used to fund private healthcare providers…

A virtuous cycle?Not in these instances. The Times has reported that the batteries that power…

The discussion around prostate cancer screening continues.1 I worked as a urologist for 30 years….

Speeches, rallies, and demonstrations for and against abortion rights on the weekend of 23-25 June…

Urgent action must be taken to break the vicious cycle of unmanageable workloads and burnout…

Vitalii Panok and his family fled Kyiv for Berlin on the second day of the…

Inequities, harassment, and discrimination are an ongoing problem in academic medicine. Numerous reports throughout North…

Defining slangI have previously defined medical terminology as a spectrum of types, from high to…

Junior doctors in England will go on strike for five days from 13 to 18…

The global mpox (formerly monkeypox) outbreak was downgraded from a public health emergency of international…

When the covid-19 restrictions took effect in Senegal, Fatima (not her real name) found herself…

EnglandThe BMA is currently re-balloting junior doctors in England to extend its mandate for junior…

Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, home to the Nobel Prize in medicine, found surgeon Paolo Macchiarini guilty…

More than a decade after he first transplanted a synthetic trachea into a patient, the…

More than half of UK doctors who responded to a survey said they had experienced…

Two errors occurred in this article by Wen Chen and colleagues (BMJ 2023;381:e068915; doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-068915). In the…

“There currently isn’t a consensus on what the menopause is,” says Martha Hickey, professor of…

TrichotillomaniaMemantine is an NMDA antagonist credited with small positive effects on cognition, mood, and behaviour…

Lemons, limes, and fluKey lemon pie? Lime meringue? I’ve been trying all week to think…

The Department for Health and Social Care is developing the UK national action plan (UK-NAP)…

Women in Scotland who underwent vaginal mesh procedures for stress urinary incontinence were given inaccurate…