Rammya Mathew: Is home working bad for our health?
During the covid-19 pandemic most healthcare professionals have been going into work as we have…
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Growing backlog of planned surgery due to covid-19
Covid-19 continues to have a severe effect on planned surgery in the UK, and dealing…
Covid-19: More young children are being infected in Israel and Italy, emerging data suggest
Experts have warned that schools must be reopened with caution, amid emerging evidence from Israel…
Government to reverse Lansley reforms in major NHS shake up
Key elements of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 are to be reversed in…
Covid-19: First UK vaccine safety data are “reassuring,” says regulator
The UK’s medicines regulator has described the first safety data related to covid-19 vaccines as…
Covid-19: South Africa pauses use of Oxford vaccine after study casts doubt on efficacy against variant
Rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine in South Africa has been paused after a study…
NHS agrees to pay {pound}13m for boy who was left brain damaged from lack of nutrition after birth
The NHS has agreed a settlement totalling £13m for a 15 year old boy who…
Increase in medical school applicants will not equal more doctors, says BMA
Despite an increase in applicants to medical schools, the BMA has warned that the UK…
Doctors can make deferred choice on pension contributions
The BMA has backed the UK government’s decision to allow doctors to make a deferred…
Japan should aim to eliminate covid -19
Compared with other G7 countries, Japan has been relatively successful in mitigating the spread of…
Researchers must contribute to responsible reporting of suicide
In their editorial on trends in suicide in the covid-19 pandemic, John and colleagues discuss…
Elimination of covid-19: a practical roadmap by segmentation
“When you settle on a problem, devote the resources to it, and have at least…
Blood test monitoring of immunomodulatory therapy in inflammatory disease
What you need to knowPatients taking immunomodulatory therapy require regular blood test monitoring to identify…
Covid-19: Why test and trace will fail without support for self-isolation
Carina Marquez was surprised to see the Latino man return to the test site she…
Taking the helm during a pandemic: dermatologist Tanya Bleiker
“There’s nothing to get bored about in dermatology,” Tanya Bleiker says. “Every day’s different and…
Outdated career ideals stifle medical women and hurt us all
It was my pleasure to welcome five brilliant women to the GMC’s council recently.From ethical…
McKinsey agrees to pay $574m to US states to settle opioid claims
The consultancy firm McKinsey and Co will pay $574m (£420m; €480m) to resolve claims that…
Puberty blockers do not alleviate negative thoughts in children with gender dysphoria, finds study
Puberty blockers used to treat children aged 12 to 15 who have severe and persistent…
Walter Marshall
bmj;372/feb05_10/n328/FAF1faWalter Marshall (“Terry”) ran a general practice in Constable Country from 1961 to 1996. He…
Physician, heal thyself? Leaving healers at risk of covid-19 is unacceptable
We read the reports from Israel suggesting that one dose of Pfizer vaccine could be…
Prem Chandra Misra
bmj;372/feb05_8/n324/FAF1faPrem Chandra Misra arrived in the UK in 1968 and specialised in psychiatry. He met…
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Richard H R White
bmj;372/feb05_7/n320/FAF1faRichard H R White (“Dick”) was born on 6 November 1926 in Newcastle-under-Lyme. He graduated…
Gyandev Punyadev Sheth
bmj;372/feb05_6/n323/FAF1faGyandev Punyadev Sheth was born in India. He and his wife, Jyotika, moved to England…
Brian Garston
bmj;372/feb05_5/n331/FAF1faBrian Garston grew up in Ainsdale, Southport, and qualified from nearby Liverpool University Medical School….
Cervical cancer screening in older women
Most women in the UK aged over 65 years have never had a test for…
How to vaccinate the world against covid-19
When Senjuti Saha, a scientist at the Child Health Research Foundation in Bangladesh, saw pictures…
A wrist injury
A man in his 20s presented with deformity and severe pain in his left shoulder…
Sixty seconds on . . . Contagion
As in, when a disease is spread by touching someone or something?Well, yes. But the…
Millions face potential health risks from climate change in UK, report warns
Almost a third of people report suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after having their…
Covid-19: Drop the hero narrative and support doctors’ mental health, says charity
The mental health charity Mind has launched guidance for NHS leaders on creating workplace cultures…
Covid-19: How the UK is using lateral flow tests in the pandemic
As many as 384 million kits have been ordered by the UK government at a…
Covid-19: Israel sees new infections plummet following vaccinations
Early findings from Israel’s covid-19 vaccination programme suggest that the rollout of the Pfizer BioNTech…
Covid-19: Five steps to escape the cycle of lockdowns
Lockdown was the false debate of 2020. Nobody wants lockdown, neither the John Snows nor…
Decoding the unknowns in long covid
Relatively few peer reviewed papers have documented the disease features of “long covid,” but patient…
Seven days in medicine: 27 January to 2 February
Covid-19 vaccinationAll care home residents in England offered vaccineThe SARS-CoV-2 vaccine has been offered to…
Harold Bornstein: Donald Trump’s former personal physician
bmj;372/feb04_3/n319/FAF1faCredit: NBC NewsIn a medical letter in 2015 that was littered with unprecedented hyperbole, Harold…
Tackling obesity . . . and other stories
Obesity policiesOver the past 30 years, successive UK governments have struggled to tackle the problem…
Prospective validation of Canadian TIA Score and comparison with ABCD2 and ABCD2i for subsequent stroke risk after transient ischaemic attack: multicentre prospective cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo validate the previously derived Canadian TIA Score to stratify subsequent stroke risk in a…
What went wrong in the global governance of covid-19?
The mandate of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response is to “provide an…
Covid-19: Social murder, they wrote—elected, unaccountable, and unrepentant
Murder is an emotive word. In law, it requires premeditation. Death must be deemed to…
Covid-19: New data on Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine backs 12 week dosing interval
The UK’s approach of leaving an interval of three months between doses of the Oxford…
Progress “painfully slow” on air quality and other environmental issues, inquiry concludes
The UK government is failing to deliver on its 2011 promise to improve the natural…
Covid-19: Four in 10 people with evidence of past infection had no classic symptoms, study finds
Around one in four people who had evidence of past covid-19 infection were completely asymptomatic,…
Deaths from alcohol hit record high during 2020, show figures
An urgent inquiry is needed to understand why deaths from alcohol hit record levels in…
Put to the test: use of rapid testing technologies for covid-19
Governments have invested enormous resources in scaling up testing capacity in their responses to covid-19….
David Oliver: Wider health determinants aren’t ȷust for pandemics
Health politics are dominated by the power of the immediate. Future health gains through long…
John Cash: former director of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, who warned against imported blood products
bmj;372/feb03_6/n312/FAF1faCredit: Keith Breeden, Royal College of Physicians of EdinburghJohn Cash, whose persistent warnings about the…
Matt Morgan: I’m a celebrity, get me remdesivir!
Just as I hoped that public understanding of the current covid-19 crisis was improving, and…
Giant retinal tear in Stickler syndrome
This retinal image using ultrawide field laser scanning shows retinal detachment as a result of…
China races to contain covid outbreak
bmj;372/feb02_17/n307/FAF1faYang Shiyao/Xinhua News Agency/PAAfter a new outbreak of covid-19 last month, China is constructing a…