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Racial and ethnic health disparities in healthcare settings
The precise combination of factors responsible for the disproportionate effect of covid-19 on ethnic minority…
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NHS England agrees deal for gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy
NHS England has agreed a deal to ensure that Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec), a one-off gene…
A vaccine against malaria: five minutes with . . . Richard Bucala
“It’s been next to impossible, historically, to create a vaccine against malaria. The reason it’s…
Sixty seconds on . . . Dolly Parton
Working 9 to 5?Not in medicine (and certainly not if Jeremy Hunt had had his…
Poor, biased reporting of daily covid death statistics without perspective creates fear
Abbasi calls for redress for the mishandling of the pandemic.1 But mainstream media outlets report…
The UK’s PPE procurement scandal reminds us why we need ways to hold ministers to account
It is never easy to explain, to someone from elsewhere who is unfamiliar with the…
What should I do if I’m asked to work outside of my practice?
Don’t attempt what you cannot doRichard Daniels, specialty trainee year 5 in paediatrics, Royal Free…
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Doctors unhappy at proposed 1% pay rise for consultants and salaried GPs in England
The BMA has described a proposed 1% pay rise for consultants and salaried GPs working…
Covid-19 and aerosol transmission: up in the air
The BMJ’s article about aerosol transmission in covid-19 rightly draws attention to an important subject,…
Money, market, media, and vaccine nationalism in the pandemic era
The BMJ reports preliminary efficacy data from the phase III trial of the Novavax vaccine.1…
Doctors unlawfully denied drug to girl with spinal muscular atrophy, appeal court rules
Decisions made by two consultants to deny a 10 year old girl with type 3…
Healthcare workers charged with subversion in Hong Kong under draconian new security law
A prominent labour unionist for the health sector in Hong Kong is among 47 people…
Alcohol deaths rise sharply in England and Wales
Provisional data for England and Wales from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a…
Covid 19: Why we can’t risk another wave
The opening of schools across the UK and elsewhere in the world will bring relief…
Judge overturns decision to strike consultant surgeon off medical register
A High Court judge has quashed a tribunal’s decision to strike a consultant orthopaedic surgeon…
Covid-19: 237m vaccine doses to be distributed worldwide over next three months
The Covax Facility (Covax) has announced where 237 million doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca covid-19…
Avoiding exploitation in multinational covid-19 vaccine trials
Highly efficacious vaccines for covid-19 are now being distributed in high income countries. At the…
A boy with purpura on the legs
A boy in his mid teens presented to the dermatology department with a one week…
Vitamin D and covid-19
The covid-19 pandemic has led to many unfounded and exaggerated claims about possible treatments. One…
David Oliver: Has covid-19 shown society’s disregard for old and sick people?
By 15 February, the UK had given first doses of covid-19 vaccine to more than…
Wolf’s post-herpetic isotopic response
This is the left breast of a woman in her 60s with breast cancer (fig…
Covid-19: Highest death rates seen in countries with most overweight populations
Covid-19 death rates are 10 times higher in countries where more than half of the…
Covid-19: Government pursued in the courts over controversial antibody test
Legal campaigners have vowed to continue their action against the government over the maladministration of…
Portraits of the people who made vaccines possible
bmj;372/mar04_3/n595/FAF1faA year ago when the pandemic took hold of the world Fran Monks, a British…
The Babinski sign in Renaissance paintings: the fallacy of mis-framed observations
In their paper on Renaissance paintings of the infant Christ,1 Sellal and Tatu equate dorsiflexed…
Seven days in medicine: 24 February to 2 March 2021
Covid-19Health leader calls for review of England’s ICU bed capacityChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS…
Covid-19: Germany struggles with slow uptake of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine
Germany is experiencing a slow uptake of the Oxford AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine, latest figures show….
Covid-19: Universities may need to test students every three days to prevent major outbreaks, say researchers
The emergence of more transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 may mean needing to test students every…
Covid-19: Schedule breast screening before vaccine or 4 to 6 weeks after to avoid false positives, says guidance
Breast screening appointments should be scheduled to take place before women receive a first dose…
Grail’s reply to editorial on “liquid biopsy” for cancer screening
I write in response to some of the key points raised in Barclay and Bradley’s…
Treatment effects in randomised trials using routinely collected data for outcome assessment versus traditional trials: meta-research study
AbstractObjectiveTo compare effect estimates of randomised clinical trials that use routinely collected data (RCD-RCT) for…
Postpartum thyroiditis
What you need to knowSymptoms of hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism can be overlooked as “normal” in…
Increasing recruitment into covid-19 trials: fund nursing trials
One can only agree wholeheartedly with Darzi and colleagues’ call for better recruitment into SARS-COV-2…
NHS sickness absence during the covid-19 pandemic
How have NHS staff coped faced with thousands of patients with a novel and highly…
Fabricated illness: guidance is updated as survey shows nearly all paediatricians see potential cases
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has provided new guidance on how…
Covid-19 trials: allow recruitment by everyone in healthcare, including those not previously involved in research
Darzi and colleagues are right to highlight research recruitment, because, before the pandemic, research activity…
Covid-19: Where are we on vaccines and variants?
Have any new variants emerged?We’ve heard a lot about B.1.1.7 (first detected in the UK),…
Covid-19: Single dose of Pfizer and Oxford vaccines cuts risk of hospital admission by 80% in over 80s, data suggest
Both the Pfizer BioNTech and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines are highly effective in reducing covid-19…
Children’s mental health: the UK government needs to be far more ambitious
England’s children’s commissioner is right to highlight the gulf between what children need and what…
Maurizio Cecconi: one year since Italy’s darkest moment
In 2020, Maurizio Cecconi was labelled one of three “pandemic heroes” by the Journal of…
Cautious optimism: Light at the end of the tunnel
After the announcement of plans for the gradual lifting of the UK lockdown (doi:10.1136/bmj.n528), many…
Matt Morgan: Head, shoulders, knees, and toes—what’s next on the NHS waiting list?
Even while ventilators continue to hiss and treat large numbers of inpatients with covid-19, attention…
High flow oxygen and risk of mortality in patients with a suspected acute coronary syndrome: pragmatic, cluster randomised, crossover trial
AbstractObjectiveTo determine the association between high flow supplementary oxygen and 30 day mortality in patients…
Vitamin D supplementation and testing in the UK: costly but ineffective?
Vitamin D supplementation is a hot topic, both in the scientific literature1 and in the…
Bernard Lown: a principled life
bmj;372/mar02_6/n583/FAF1falown250221.f1Photo credit: Boris Spremo, Toronto Star, Getty imagesThe remarkable achievements of Bernard Lown, a renowned…
Helen Salisbury: Stepping back from vaccination priorities and focusing on minimising the risk of exposure
In the last week, many GPs have been trying to make sense of new lists…
Record drug deaths need radical response, says Scottish college
Bold measures including the decriminalisation of the possession of illicit drugs must be considered by…
SARS-CoV-2 lateral flow assays for possible use in national covid-19 seroprevalence surveys (React 2): diagnostic accuracy study
AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the performance of new lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs) suitable for use in a…
Covid-19: School staff testing positive for antibodies rose to around 15% in December
The proportion of school staff testing positive for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 rose from 12.63% to…
Cultural challenges are limiting changes to social care
Manthorpe and Iliffe state that sustainability in the care home market is intrinsically linked to…