BMA expresses gratitude and grief for doctors who died from covid
bmj;376/mar23_12/o752/FAF1faSarah Turton/BMA NewsChaand Nagpaul (centre), BMA council chair, this week addressed the guests at a…
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Seven days in medicine: 16-22 March
Covid-19Doctors urge UK action on global vaccine fundingThe #vaccinatetheworld campaign, started by a group of…
Water fluoridation can significantly reduce tooth decay in children, report confirms
Adding fluoride to drinking water can significantly reduce tooth extractions and cavities among children and…
Airborne transmission: Are CO2 monitors a long term solution or “pandemic hack?”
There is ample evidence that SARS-CoV-2 can become airborne1 and that ventilation reduces the risk…
Good riddance to the face-to-face medical conference
Oliver asks if covid has killed the medical conference.1 I hope so. I struggle to…
Russia’s war in Ukraine is killing cancer care in both countries
As the war in Ukraine unleashed chaos and upended millions of lives, many Ukrainians had…
David Oliver: Can the recovery plan for elective care in England deliver?
Even before the covid-19 pandemic hit the UK in 2020, waiting lists for elective outpatient…
Get to know me as a person, not just my body parts
In 2018 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Over many months I received chemotherapy, surgery,…
Approach to conjunctivitis in newborns
What you need to knowConsider neonatal conjunctivitis in all infants presenting with eye discharge within…
The US shouldn’t settle for its current number of covid deaths or vaccination rates
The US is moving into a new phase of the covid-19 pandemic. Some are calling…
Hospitals and healthcare workers must be protected from the waging of war
An injured pregnant woman was carried out of a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine on…
Face-to-face medical conferences are a step towards flattening the hierarchy
As Oliver concedes,1 the virtual world has revolutionised medical education and practice. Organisers of medical…
High US drug prices have global implications
This is a critical time for pharmaceutical reform in the United States. The Biden administration…
NHS suppliers must work faster on carbon goals if health service is to meet targets
Suppliers to the NHS will need to make faster progress in cutting carbon emissions if…
Marginalized identities, mistreatment, discrimination, and burnout among US medical students: cross sectional survey and retrospective cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo describe the association between mistreatment, burnout, and having multiple marginalized identities during undergraduate medical…
Matt Morgan: Learning from all creatures great and small
In January, David Bennett became the first person to receive a heart transplant from a…
Helen Salisbury: The persistence of covid
Figures from the Office for National Statistics for the week ending 12 March showed that…
Low back pain in people aged 60 years and over
What you need to knowNon-specific low back pain is common in people ≥60 years old;…
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Hunt and BMA ȷoin forces in campaign to “rebuild general practice”
GPs’ leaders and Jeremy Hunt, former health and social care secretary for England, joined forces…
Response from the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine to editorial on mental health services failing the criminal justice system
In their editorial on how mental health services are failing the criminal justice system,1 Brooker…
The limitations of scientific evidence when speaking truth to politics
The decision by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to end covid-19 restrictions was clearly political. The…
Food bank use is a canary in the coal mine for mental health services
The NHS Confederation recently warned of a “second pandemic” of mental health problems in the…
Judge approves “highly invasive” medical procedure to try to keep patient with OCD alive
A High Court judge has approved a “highly invasive, very unusual” medical procedure to treat…
Uganda should reconsider its proposed public health legislation that places tough sanctions on people who are unvaccinated
To date, eight million people in Uganda are fully vaccinated in a population of over…
Angela Robinson: haematologist and medical director of the National Blood Authority
bmj;376/mar21_11/o729/FAF1faAngela Robinson was medical director of the National Blood Authority (NBA, now NHS Blood and…
When I use a word . . . . Diagnosis
An aphorismI have previously suggested that an aphorism attributed to William Osler, “Listen to the…
Health of people in England did not improve in the years before the pandemic
The overall health of the population in England did not improve in the five years…
Essential medicines keep flowing to Russia, but sanctions could severely effect health
Dozens of drug companies have promised to keep sending essential medicines to Russia, despite announcing…
Closing our eyes to covid won’t make it go away
It’s been over three weeks now that cases of covid-19 and hospital admissions have been…
Sixty seconds on . . . covid toe
Is this a thing?Different groups on different continents have recorded increased diagnoses of chilblain-like lesions…
Covid-19: Surveillance systems for the new normal
What have we learnt about surveillance after two years of a pandemic? Will we have…
The unsung importance of art and creativity
Nicola Weaver’s story of playing the violin throughout her life is not only an interesting…
Mental health in the criminal justice system: austerity must now be reversed
The covid-19 pandemic has allowed us to acknowledge the depth and scale of the problems…
Approach to patients with a potential prosthetic joint infection
What you need to knowProsthetic joint infections (PJIs) can occur at any time following surgery,…
Statins: Dispute over benefits to be aired in High Court case brought by GP and researcher
The controversy over the benefits of statins is set to be aired in the High…
Paul Rayd Shapiro Stern
bmj;376/mar18_10/o720/FAF1faPaul Rayd Shapiro Stern was born and brought up in South Africa. After his his…
Loghman Daneshmand
bmj;376/mar18_9/o717/FAF1faLoghman Daneshmand was born in Iran and graduated from Tehran University with a diploma in…
John Pauffley
bmj;376/mar18_8/o699/FAF1faIn 1943 John Pauffley studied medicine at University College Oxford, before transferring to the London…
Anne Dale
As Anne said in the words she prepared for her own funeral, her family made…
Jimmy Flowerdew
bmj;376/mar18_6/o690/FAF1faJimmy Flowerdew met and married his wife, Cecile, before qualifying. He fell in love with…
Shaun Roy Jackson
bmj;376/mar18_5/o694/FAF1faShaun Roy Jackson (“Billy”) trained in Liverpool under the auspices of Philip Stell and spent…
Covid-19: Parliament was denied power to scrutinise pandemic laws, say MPs
The UK parliament was denied the power to properly scrutinise laws related to covid-19 for…
Recurrent oversubscription of the UK Foundation Programme reflects the government’s failure to plan for the medical workforce
It is hard to fathom how, after years of warning of oversubscription, we have almost…
Northern Ireland’s surgeons force action on hospital reform
At the Southern Trust’s board meeting in January, members were told that emergency general surgery…
From Ukraine: displaced twice and on the road again
As dawn broke on 24 February 2022 in Kyiv, I woke to the sound of…
Study questions relationship between statins and cardiovascular outcomes
The relationship between the amount that statins reduce low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels—sometimes referred…
Covid-19: Doctors urge government to step up on global vaccine funding
A group of influential NHS doctors and medical bodies have called on the government to…
Tom Nolan’s research reviews—17 March 2022
Radioiodine goes off airRates of death from stage I or II differentiated thyroid cancer are…
Covid-19: Hong Kong reports world’s highest death rate as zero covid strategy fails
Coronavirus infections are surging in Hong Kong as the city has reported the highest number…
Proton pump inhibitors should not be used to treat persistent throat symptoms
The studyWilson JA, Stocken DD, Watson GC, et al. Lansoprazole for persistent throat symptoms in…