Covid-19: Should we be worried about reports of myocarditis and pericarditis after mRNA vaccines?
What is the latest?On 23 June the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s safety…
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Sixty seconds on . . . Wembley
Is football coming home?Yes, 60 000 footie fans have got the green light to go…
Names of doctors who advised withdrawing treatment from babies should not be disclosed, says judge
Two sets of parents who fought court battles to try to stop doctors withdrawing life…
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Covid-19: Third of people infected have long term symptoms
Around a third of people in England who developed covid-19 went on to experience long…
Cognitive decline . . . and other stories
The genetics of cognitive declineScores on the mini-mental state examination were tracked for five years…
What I never consented to
I have a complex medical history and have experienced many tests, procedures, and surgeries. Over…
How can we manage covid fatigue?
What’s the long term outlook after covid? And what’s the prognosis for health systems and…
Chronic fatigue syndrome and long covid: moving beyond the controversy
“I submitted the first positive trial of cognitive behavioural therapy [CBT] as a treatment for…
Effect of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across populations in the USA and other high income countries: simulations of provisional mortality data
AbstractObjectiveTo estimate changes in life expectancy in 2010-18 and during the covid-19 pandemic in 2020…
Weight management service plans are flawed and will add to GP workload, BMA warns
The BMA has warned that a new weight management service will result in a “significant”…
GMC to appeal tribunal decision that found case against urologist was racist
The General Medical Council is to appeal against a “flawed” employment tribunal decision that the…
Covid-19: Israel advises against foreign travel after recording 125 new cases
Israel’s new prime minister, Naftali Bennett, is reconvening the coronavirus cabinet and has urged Israelis…
Investigating raised creatine kinase
What you need to knowMost elevations in creatine kinase are physiological or secondary to exercise…
Frostbite of the mouth after partying
This is a severe frostbite injury in a man in his 20s who inhaled laughing…
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Regenerative medicine for neurological diseases—will regenerative neurosurgery deliver?
AbstractRegenerative medicine aspires to transform the future practice of medicine by providing curative, rather than…
David Oliver: Why shouldn’t GPs use social media to rebalance the debate on covid-era consultations?
On 6 June the Mail on Sunday published a piece by its health editor, Barney…
A lump in the hand
A man in his late 40s presented to his general practitioner with a history of…
Mental health support after covid-19: closer relations between general practice, psychology, and occupational health
Mughal and colleagues give an estimate that has been used for decades: “Around 90% of…
Caring in wards without water
bmj;373/jun22_8/n1602/FAF1faDennis Lupenga/WaterAid/Wimbledon FoundationLoveness Saulosi prepares food for her daughter, a patient in Mkunzi health centre…
Declaring interests: necessary but not sufficient
Continuing a decades old narrative in The BMJ, Abbasi emphasises the serious risks posed by…
GP is liable only for costs of harm related to her advice in case of “wrongful birth,” say Supreme Court ȷudges
The UK Supreme Court has delivered a landmark judgment spelling out the extent to which…
Helen Salisbury: Should I stay or should I go?
Whenever two or three GPs of a certain age are gathered together, the subject of…
Lockdown in Nepal further strains supply of lifesaving maternal health drug
Nepal entered a four month nationwide lockdown in March 2020, during which the number of…
Clare Gerada: My father and the GMC
We all have a narrative about why we became doctors. I was influenced by my…
Interpreting a lateral flow SARS-CoV-2 antigen test
What you need to knowThe positive predictive value of a positive lateral flow device (LFD)…
Future of covid-19 vaccine pricing: lessons from influenza
The increasing availability of covid-19 vaccines has signalled to many the beginning of the end…
Benefits of quitting: “more quit, more grit”
Morgan’s lesson of embracing quitting as a decisive action rather than defeatist failure should ring…
Exposure to green spaces may strengthen resilience and support mental health in the face of the covid-19 pandemic
Mughal and colleagues provide a useful overview of mental health support during the covid-19 pandemic.1Outdoor…
Labour calls for transparency in appointment of new head of NHS England
Labour has called for the appointment process of the new chief executive of NHS England…
Trieste’s mental healthcare model is under threat, claim supporters of the community based approach
Experts in Italy and beyond claim that right wing politicians are seeking to dismantle one…
Increasing awareness of drug induced gingival enlargement
Ramakumar and Deepti present a case of gingival hyperplasia associated with diltiazem.1 This condition, more…
Fitness to practise: Plan would class doctors investigated for health reasons as lacking in competence
The government has set out proposals to remove health issues as a reason for a…
Resisting the “righting reflex” in conversations about covid vaccine hesitancy
Razai and colleagues discuss covid-19 vaccine hesitancy.1 We agree that there is no single solution…
GMC is accused of complacency about discrimination in its work
An employment tribunal has ruled for the first time that the General Medical Council discriminated…
Covid-19: Cases of delta variant rise by 79%, but rate of growth slows
Almost all new cases of covid-19 are the delta variant but new data suggests that…
Role model: Ebere Okereke
Ebere Okereke leads a £24m (€28m; $34m) UK funded international health regulations strengthening programme for…
Persistent pulmonary disease after acute covid-19
It has been over a year since the first patients were discharged from UK hospitals…
Building a sustainable infrastructure for covid-19 vaccinations long term
By mid-June 2021, the UK had administered over 70 million doses of covid-19 vaccine, with…
Derek Hall Teasdale
bmj;373/jun18_10/n1551/FAF1faAfter pre-registration appointments, Derek Hall Teasdale was called up into the navy, where he served…
David John McMaster
bmj;373/jun18_9/n1556/FAF1faDavid John McMaster (“Dave Mac,” as he was usually known by his contemporaries) grew up…
Robert Noel Hadfield
bmj;373/jun18_8/n1557/FAF1faRobert Noël Hadfield (“Noël”) grew up in Southport and at his family’s holiday home overlooking…
Brian Hall Smith
bmj;373/jun18_7/n1553/FAF1faBrian Hall Smith (also known as “BH”) was born in Wellington, Shropshire, on 31 December…
Madeleine Eggleston
bmj;373/jun18_6/n1561/FAF1faMadeleine Eggleston (née Russell) was the first of three generations of female doctors. One of…
Covid-19 vaccine outreach: “local knowledge, contacts, and credibility really, really matter”
In leafy East Sussex the rates of those who have had their first and second…
Covid-19: Prepare for a third wave, warns England’s chief medical officer
Current trajectories suggest that the UK is facing a third surge of covid-19, while booster…
The NHS needs a comprehensive plan for recovery
Even before covid-19, the NHS was in need of some emergency treatment. In the 2019…
Humanising medical care after the pandemic
Rage and despair about the NHS spurred me to start a charity called the Point…
Global covid-19 vaccine rollout and safety surveillance—how to keep pace
The first vaccines against the novel pathogen SARS-CoV-2 were deployed just nine months after the…
Use of critically important antibiotics class has more than doubled on UK pig farms
The use of a class of antibiotics critically important to human health more than doubled…
Covid-19: Regeneron’s antibody combination cuts deaths in seronegative patients, trial finds
Regeneron’s antibody combination treatment cut deaths in seronegative patients—meaning those who had not mounted their…