David Oliver: Lack of PPE betrays NHS clinical staff
The failure to provide adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) to health and social care workers…
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Beware of the bleeding nodule
This is a lesion of the post-auricular area in a man in his 50s (fig…
Covid-19: NHS trusts deny restricting PPE during pandemic
NHS trusts have denied issuing instructions to staff to restrict their use of personal protective…
Partha Kar: Losing one’s faith in leaders
It’s awkward—really awkward—to look back at something you’ve written and realise it hasn’t aged well….
Covid:19: Ethnic minority health staff are less likely to take up vaccine, early data show
A hospital trust in the Midlands has said that it is working to understand why…
Alan Holmes
bmj;372/feb16_11/n416/FAF1faAlan Holmes was born in Whitley Bay and went to his local medical school in…
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Lionel Fry
bmj;372/feb16_10/n409/FAF1faLionel Fry was an internationally known professor of dermatology who established the cause of dermatitis…
Prakash S Sinha
bmj;372/feb16_9/n427/FAF1faPrakash S Sinha was a general surgeon with a specialist interest in endocrine, breast, and…
Jane Hyslop Short
bmj;372/feb16_8/n425/FAF1faJane Merry was born in the manse in Shotts, Lanarkshire, where her father was a…
Syed Safdar Raza
bmj;372/feb16_7/n419/FAF1faSyed Safdar Raza was born in Chapra, Bihar, India. His life was a trial from…
Derek Browne
bmj;372/feb16_6/n407/FAF1faThe son of missionary parents, Derek Browne was born in Yakusu in the former Belgian…
Helen Salisbury: How are you, doctor?
We all know the conventions around replying to the seemingly simple question, “How are you?”…
Covid-19: How the lessons of HIV can help end the pandemic
Until covid-19 hit, Eric Kutscher was used to seeing people sunbathing on his daily walk…
Cap on public sector exit payments is lifted after BMA’s legal challenge
A cap that limited exit payments made to public sector workers to £95 000 (€109…
Co-production of knowledge: the future
Co-production is a collaborative model of research that includes stakeholders such as patients, the public,…
Mesh removal: skills accreditation planned for surgeons who work in new centres
Surgeons who will work at new specialist mesh centres throughout England hope to establish their…
Sixty seconds on . . . hotel quarantine
Is this a new covid themed hotel?You could put it like that. From 15 February…
How to beat night shift dread
Get a structured handoverArafat Mulla, specialty trainee year 4 in respiratory medicine, North West deanery,…
Covid-19: Are cloth masks still effective? And other questions answered
Are cloth masks still recommended?Early in the pandemic, major problems in the global supply of…
Why did a German newspaper insist the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine was inefficacious for older people—without evidence?
“AstraZeneca vaccine apparently hardly effective in seniors,” reported the German economic newspaper Handelsblatt on Monday…
Do not routinely offer imaging for uncomplicated low back pain
What you need to knowLess than 5-10% of all low back pain is due to…
Covid-19: Is Manaus the final nail in the coffin for natural herd immunity?
Hospitals in the Brazilian Amazon collapsed for the second time in mid-January.A surge in patients…
Covid-19: What happened to randomised controlled trials?
Whenever there is widespread uncertainty about the balance between the benefits and harms of a…
Covid-19: People with mild asthma won’t get early vaccination
People with mild asthma will not be included in the UK’s sixth priority group for…
Joseph Sonnabend: the first AIDS doctor
bmj;372/feb11_9/n410/FAF1faPhoto credit: Simon WatneyJoseph Sonnabend was the world’s first AIDS doctor. He never made that…
Covid-19: WHO says laboratory escape theory is “extremely unlikely” after mission to China
A team of scientists sent to Wuhan, China, by the World Health Organization to investigate…
Covid-19: Healthcare staff must be given time to recuperate from pandemic, say leaders
The NHS must have a realistic and steady approach to resuming services disrupted by the…
Covid-19: Travellers to UK from “red list” countries will pay {pound}1750 for 10 day hotel quarantine
The UK government has introduced new quarantine measures for international travellers in a bid to…
Covid 19: Two million deaths, so what went wrong?
Covid restrictions across Europe are bringing a stuttering end to a costly second wave and…
Bats, viruses, . . . and other stories
BatsRoughly 6400 species of mammal have been recorded and, amazingly, 1423 of them are bats….
Fossil fuel air pollution blamed for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide
Fossil fuel air pollution is responsible for around one in five deaths, which is more…
Covid-19: Children less likely to report fever, persistent cough, or appetite loss, large UK study finds
Young people aged five to 17 with covid-19 are less likely to report fever, persistent…
Long covid: WHO calls on countries to offer patients more rehabilitation
The World Health Organization has urged countries to prioritise rehabilitation for the medium and long…
Covid-19: Government wasted millions on poor quality PPE, spending watchdog finds
The UK government wasted hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on poor quality…
Depression: EU approves expanded use of esketamine for rapid reduction of symptoms
Esketamine nasal spray—sold under the name Spravato—has been approved by the European Commission as a…
Rapidly growing eyelid mass
This is a sebaceous cell carcinoma on the eyelid of a man in his 50s…
Developing vaccines for neglected and emerging infectious diseases
The rapid development of safe, high efficacy covid-19 vaccines in under a year is one…
Association between antihypertensive treatment and adverse events: systematic review and meta-analysis
AbstractObjectiveTo examine the association between antihypertensive treatment and specific adverse events.DesignSystematic review and meta-analysis.Eligibility criteriaRandomised…
Covid-19: India’s slow moving treatment guidelines are misleading and harming patients
When Santosh Gaggar was admitted to hospital in December 2020 with severe covid-19 her doctors…
Changing behaviour: an essential component of tackling health inequalities
Life expectancy in England is stalling, while at the same time health inequalities are widening….
How to make the most of your psychiatry placement
Every year, one in four people in the UK experiences mental health problems.1 As a…
David Oliver: Mistruths and misunderstandings about covid-19 death numbers
I want to set the record straight about some serious misinformation surrounding covid-19 death certification…
Home insulation also saves lives by reducing wood stove pollution
As well as creating warmer, healthier homes,1 improved insulation saves lives by reducing wood heater…
Secondary care opinion: advice or didactic guidance?
Salisbury makes a good point about the differing views of what an opinion from a…
Respectful disagreement: the covid-19 shielding list
Salisbury acknowledges the challenges GPs have had regarding “respectful disagreement” with covid-19 policy and guidance.1…
Scotland approves MS drug that was rejected in England and Wales
A drug that can reduce the number of relapses suffered by people with multiple sclerosis…
Leaked government white paper ends England’s NHS internal market and returns power to health secretary
The government’s health and care white paper, which forms its legislative plans for the NHS…
Myanmar medics resist military coup
bmj;372/feb09_6/n368/FAF1faAnadolu Agency/Getty ImagesMedical staff at Yangon General Hospital join the nationwide protest against the military…
Differentiating torus fractures from other wrist injuries
Perry and colleagues point out that the appropriate management of torus fractures, following the NICE…
Helen Salisbury: Everyone wants to feel useful
It’s been a hard year. As we’re bombarded with daily images of desperately ill patients…