Mifepristone at home
The World Health Organization’s new guidelines on abortion care recommend that medical abortion in the…
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Covid-19: US tracker overestimated deaths among children
The US’s health protection agency has reduced the number of deaths it is attributing to…
Scrapping free covid tests for NHS staff is completely wrong
Healthcare workers battled to keep patients safe as hospitals overflowed. GPs, hospital doctors, and community…
Covid-19: Oxygen shortages two years into pandemic highlight pre-covid failures, says WHO
Two years into the covid-19 pandemic, access to oxygen is still a major problem in…
Helen Salisbury: Are antivirals a covid-19 game changer?
We all know that covid-19 is on the rise again. In general practice our inboxes…
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Whistleblowing: nephrologist who reported colleagues to GMC was unfairly dismissed
A consultant nephrologist was unfairly dismissed for whistleblowing after reporting colleagues to the General Medical…
Why I . . . am a DJ
During the covid-19 pandemic, when the country went into lockdown, Kishan Bodalia was a foundation…
Neuropsychiatric reactions with the use of montelukast
What you need to knowMontelukast, used in the treatment of asthma and allergic rhinitis, can…
The world’s refugees remain last in line for covid-19 vaccines
Jannat Bahar, a 45 year old single mother of eight children, sits behind a wooden…
Crowdfunding investigative journalism at The BMJ
The BMJ is now more than a scholarly journal, and for the past decade we…
Action on patient safety can reduce health inequalities
Health inequalities are widening in many high income countries and have been thrown into focus…
Offer patients genetic tests to see if medicines are safe and effective, says Royal College of Physicians
Patients should be tested for genetic variants that can affect how they will respond to…
Advancing diagnostic excellence: the cognitive challenge for medicine
Mainstream medicine’s response to diagnostic failure is that if we are experiencing difficulty, we should…
Access to medicines—an old problem needing new solutions
The Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccines were approved in December 2020, followed by the Moderna…
Faith based dialogue can tackle vaccine hesitancy and build trust
One in 10 Americans say that their religious beliefs prohibit them from getting covid-19 vaccines,1…
Are fewer people living in poverty in the UK than 10 years ago?
What’s the claim?Earlier this month the UK chancellor, Rishi Sunak, said, “The actions of this…
Climate emergency: how should COP27 do better for adolescents and young people?
As the curtain closed on COP26 at the end of last year, adolescents’ and young…
Why hospital bombings remain difficult to prosecute as war crimes
Oleh Tkachenko was delivering bread when he heard an explosion. He works as a pastor…
Covid-19: WHO set to reject Canadian plant based vaccine because of links with tobacco industry
A unique plant based coronavirus vaccine newly approved in Canada is unlikely to be listed…
Combination inhaler is effective in mild asthma
The studyCrossingham I, Turner S, Ramakrishnan S, et al. Combination fixed-dose β agonist and steroid…
Covid-19: Researchers call for routine flu testing of hospital inpatients with SARS-CoV-2 infection
All hospital inpatients with covid-19 should be routinely tested for influenza viruses, as those who…
Russian forces are increasingly targeting Ukrainian healthcare facilities, says WHO
Sixty four healthcare facilities have been attacked by the Russian military since it launched an…
Radiologist who charged for scans he reported while at work is suspended for three months
A consultant radiologist who dishonestly claimed payment for scans which he pretended to have reported…
William Irvine Fraser
bmj;376/mar25_8/o767/FAF1faWilliam Irvine Fraser (“Bill”) chose a career in psychiatry, later specialising in learning disability. He…
Kenneth Frohnsdorff
Kenneth Frohnsdorff spent his national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the…
Edward Young
bmj;376/mar25_6/o773/FAF1faEdward Young (“Eddie”) was born and brought up in Reading in a large family with…
Neville Seymour
bmj;376/mar25_5/o768/FAF1faNeville Seymour, a retired orthopaedic and trauma surgeon died on 4 December 2021. He qualified…
Geoffrey Joseph Bourke
bmj;376/mar25_4/o766/FAF1faGeoffrey Joseph Bourke was regarded as an outstanding, widely published academic who had a seminal…
Covid-19: Moderna will ask for authorisation for vaccine for infants and children
Moderna said it would ask the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use…
Race, racism, and health: global learning for national action
The BMJ’s special issue on racism in medicine, published in February 2020, highlighted the chronic…
Ukraine war: The humanitarian crisis in Kharkiv
For more than a month now, Russian troops have been destroying the Russian-speaking city of…
Investigating hypertension in younger patients
What you need to knowSecondary hypertension may account for up to 30% of diagnoses of…
Young man who refused treatment for suspected type 1 diabetes died before palliative care plan was put in place
A 23 year old man who refused hospital investigation for suspected type 1 diabetes later…
Blistering eruption on face and neck
This is herpes gladiatorum on the neck of a man in his 20s as a…
Covid-19: They think it’s all over—it depends how you look at the world
McKee and van Schalkwyk are right to raise broader questions about the management of the…
Ending the covid-19 pandemic means helping countries to catch-up with vaccination, not giving up
The governments of predominantly wealthy nations with high vaccination coverage are beginning to relax their…
Workforce, airborne transmission, and wilful neglect
Earlier this month The BMJ and the Nuffield Trust hosted a roundtable discussion about the…
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Covid-19: Public inquiry must include effects on children, say experts
The government’s upcoming covid-19 public inquiry must include the effect of the pandemic on children…
Comparative effectiveness of statins on non-high density lipoprotein cholesterol in people with diabetes and at risk of cardiovascular disease: systematic review and network meta-analysis
AbstractObjectiveTo compare the efficacy of different statin treatments by intensity on levels of non-high density…
It is not too late to achieve global covid-19 vaccine equity
During the covid-19 pandemic, we have seen the best of international collective action and its…
Access to self-care interventions can improve health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness
Many of us who have somewhere to call home can visit a health facility when…
Vitamin D, diabetes, . . . and other stories
Vitamin D for people with prediabetes and diabetesThe UK Biobank study reports that in people…
Is the UK’s covid inquiry at risk of forgetting about children and young people?
Almost the only thing that people seem to agree on about the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and…
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—24 March 2022
Anticoagulants after venous thromboembolismTaking warfarin is more onerous than taking a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC),…
Pushing back on the arguments of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death
Introducing the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: bringing death back into life at…
Ukraine’s children: Use evidence to support child protection in emergencies
The images of Ukraine’s children are hard to ignore. Wearing bobble hats and clutching teddy…
The NHS bursary: what am I entitled to?
This article is aimed at medical students who reside in England. Check for eligibility on…
Was lockdown necessary?
On 23 March 2020 at 8 pm prime minister Boris Johnson came onto our TV…
Balancing access and continuity in general practice
Salisbury captures the essence of general practice: the long term relationships with our patients.1 These…
The complexity and joy of general practice: time for GPs to shout a little louder
Based on my short career so far, Salisbury is correct that “bad mouthing” of general…