AbstractObjectivesTo determine the associations between a care coordination intervention (the Transitions Program) targeted to patients…
A UK charity is offering education scholarships worth £5000 (€5600; $6900) a year to children…
West Africa’s first ever case of Marburg virus disease, an epidemic prone disease with high…
Practical examinations, virtual teaching Grace George, foundation year 1 doctor, Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust, academic…
The swift and necessary public health response to the covid-19 pandemic has had detrimental consequences…
After the loss of my husband to covid-19, I kept working and tried not to…
Grief and death have something crucial in common: an incidence of 100%. The ache of…
Just over half (51%) of GPs and 30% of hospital doctors have reported experiencing verbal…
Psychiatry today, perhaps more than any other branch of medicine, has continuities with the past….
“Two days after my first symptoms, I began to feel seriously ill,” wrote BBC TV…
One month ago, Uganda was badly hit by the covid-19 delta variant that has been…
Salisbury wonders whether presumed consent is enough for sharing medical data and concludes that data…
Junior doctors in England will be surveyed on whether they wish to consider any form…
Sheila Cameron Fowler started her career as a GP in the early 1960s as an…
The parents of a two year old girl with serious brain damage have enlisted politicians…
Violence against women and girls is regularly making headlines in the UK, gaining prominence with…
A group of junior doctors from Scotland have written to young people in their age…
To host big sporting events such as the Olympic Games and the Fédération Internationale de…
An NHS boss who wrongly assured the General Medical Council that a doctor he was…
Amanda Pritchard is the new chief executive officer of NHS England and the first woman…
All 16 and 17 year olds in the UK will be offered a first dose…
The Scottish government is set to override UK opposition and set up safe consumption rooms…
Progression of aortic stenosisThere’s an inverse relation between calcification in arteries and calcification in bone….
Have you tried turning it off and on again?Andrew MacFarlaneYou are now locked out of…
Rather than negotiating with pharmaceutical giants or the Covax vaccine sharing initiative, Cuba bet everything…
Examples of excruciating pain experienced during the fitting of an intrauterine contraceptive device (also known…
Researchers have called for a more radical, multisectoral approach to halting the rise in drug…
Yes—Michael ParkerPatient safety is ultimately the responsibility of health and social care institutions. With regard…
AbstractObjectivesTo examine multiple objective and self-reported measures of motor function for their associations with mortality.DesignProspective…
AbstractObjectiveTo inform the update of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes clinical practice…
The US is a distant outlier in delivering quality healthcare, a study has found, lagging…
British members of parliament fiddling with their expenses, the treatment of Windrush immigrants, and the…
TheBMJ has long been committed to partnering with patients and the public. In 2014 it…
Lessing highlights the significant distress that can result from unexpected incidental findings on follow-up imaging.1Unnecessary…
Rudd and Walsh discuss facial skin irritation attributed to the wearing of “facial personal protective…
Most children who test positive for covid-19 and experience symptoms recover within a week, although…
One controversial feature of the recent health and care bill is the intention to confer…
bmj;374/aug04_3/n1929/FAF1faThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published two related sets of…
This is vancomycin induced infusion syndrome on the back of a man in his 20s…
What you need to knowBehavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) can be exacerbated by…
bmj;374/aug03_18/n1924/FAF1faCredit: University of LondonPeter Kopelman, who has died aged 70, rose from being a medical…
Most years, there’s a noticeable slackening in the pace of GPs’ work over the summer….
As an international medical student, I support the decision1 and believe it is a positive…
As an intercalating medical student, I admit that gaining educational achievement points was a motivating…
Although I support the decision to exclude additional degrees and publications from the points system…
Intercalation inspires future healthcare professionals to engage in research. We need to inspire students to…
The letter from the UK Foundation Programme Office (UKFPO)12 makes the puzzling and unreferenced statement…
My initial reaction to the changes1 was similar to those I saw online: this decision…
bmj;374/aug03_10/n1932/FAF1faThis portrait, by Christian Furr, of Lotte Newman, who became a Royal College of General…
Four members of the NICE guideline development committee for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) left…