Covid 19: Where’s the strategy for testing?
It would be nice to be able to say otherwise, but the UK’s approach to…
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Reach agreement on GP safeguarding fees or risk legal action, judge tells local agencies
Local authorities, the police, and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) could face a mass of civil…
Covid-19: Timing is critical for antibody tests, finds Cochrane review
A Cochrane systematic review has found that, when it comes to antibody testing for covid-19,…
Charles Berry: NASA physician who helped select the USA’s first astronauts
bmj;369/jun25_13/m2452/FAF1faPhoto: Charles Berry with Deke SlaytonIn the 1960s, Americans followed every move made by the…
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Presenting clinical features on darker skin: five minutes with . . . Malone Mukwende
“Mind the Gap is a handbook of clinical signs in black and brown skin. Its…
Academic criteria for promotion and tenure in biomedical sciences faculties: cross sectional analysis of international sample of universities
AbstractObjectiveTo determine the presence of a set of pre-specified traditional and non-traditional criteria used to…
Covid-19: healthcare and politics are inexorably intertwined
Abbasi discusses transparency and political interference in scientific advice.1 It is time for our profession…
Lessons in contact tracing from Germany
The pandemic situation in Germany is often compared favourably with that in other European countries,…
Predicting multiple sclerosis progression . . . and other stories
Aggressive multiple sclerosisA small proportion of people who develop multiple sclerosis experience a rapid progression…
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Covid-19: MPs reject calls to routinely test health and care workers
MPs have rejected a motion calling for NHS and social care staff to be routinely…
Covid-19: Ministers urged to waive {pound}993 visa bill for “stranded” doctors who had exams cancelled
Medical bodies have urged the home secretary to extend the visas of around 200 doctors…
Alison E Mack
bmj;369/jun25_3/m2431/FAF1faAlison Mack, who died aged 83,was a determined and enthusiastic innovator in improving the healthcare…
Covid-19 and alcohol: parental drinking influences the next generation
Finlay and Gilmore rightly draw attention to two vulnerable groups of drinkers in the covid-19…
Vulnerable children were harmed by charity’s “systemic” failures, inquiry finds
Serious mismanagement and systemic failures of governance at the Royal National Institute of Blind People…
Covid-19: Doctors feel shut out of plans for dealing with backlog of missed care
A quarter of doctors have not been involved in planning to deal with the increased…
NHS trust was negligent in failing to recognise child’s serious bacterial infection, says High Court
A High Court judge has ruled that an NHS trust was negligent in failing to…
Sixty seconds on . . . the two metre rule
We know, keep two metres apartNot any more. While UK guidance for the past three…
Covid-19: Continued outbreaks in care homes risk extending pandemic, say experts
The number of outbreaks in care homes and a lack of important public health information…
Covid-19: Footballers mark silent respect for victims
bmj;369/jun24_5/m2504/FAF1faJohn Sibley/Getty ImagesFootballers from West Ham United and Wolverhampton Wanderers and match officials take part…
Covid-19: Medical leaders call for rapid review to prepare for second wave
Leaders in the medical community, including heads of royal colleges and The BMJ’s editor in…
Covid-19: UK prime minister announces relaxation of lockdown and social distancing rules
The prime minister, Boris Johnson, has announced a major relaxation of the UK’s lockdown rules,…
Commercial influence and covid-19
Although the covid-19 pandemic has provoked the best of human compassion, the hallmarks of unhealthy…
Covid-19 and lack of linked datasets for care homes
Residents of care homes are centre stage in the covid-19 pandemic for all the wrong…
Enhancing postnatal care of women with gestational diabetes
Vounzoulaki and colleagues’ finding that women with a history of gestational diabetes are almost 10…
Covid-19 and ethnic minorities: an urgent agenda for overdue action
Demands to address the health inequalities facing ethnic minorities date back at least two decades….
Covid-19: Doctors “face difficulties” getting life insurance after exposure to disease
Doctors have encountered difficulties in applying for life insurance because of their exposure to covid-19,…
Covid-19: Call for a rapid forward looking review of the UK’s preparedness for a second wave—an open letter to the leaders of all UK political parties
Dear leaders of UK political parties,Several countries are now experiencing covid-19 flare-ups. While the future…
Helen Salisbury: When will we be well again?
In the heat of the pandemic, news reports focused on patients who were severely ill,…
Covid-19: Demand for dexamethasone surges as RECOVERY trial publishes preprint
Production of dexamethasone must be rapidly ramped up to meet global demand for the drug,…
Rahimullah Hamid
bmj;369/jun23_7/m2428/FAF1faRahimullah Hamid was encouraged to study medicine by doctors at the hospital where he was…
Peter Hilary-Jones
bmj;369/jun23_6/m2430/FAF1faPeter Hilary-Jones was born near Swansea, the son of a canon in the Church in…
Gerald Wilson Black
bmj;369/jun23_5/m2425/FAF1faGerald Wilson Black (“Gerry”) completed his medical degree at Queen’s University Belfast. After a research…
Khalid Musa Hussain
bmj;369/jun23_4/m2429/FAF1faKhalid Musa Hussain was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and graduated from the medical college of…
Pamela Margaret Ashurst
bmj;369/jun23_3/m2427/FAF1faPamela Margaret Ashurst was a generous doctor who inspired generations of women therapists and pioneered…
Reconsidering the scope of US state laws allowing pharmacist substitution of generic drugs
The generic fill rate has reached 90% in the US, representing one of the great…
David Oliver: Preventing more deaths in care homes in a second pandemic surge
I hope my column last week showed that all of us had a part to…
Medical cannabis: campaigner calls on home secretary to deliver on access promises
The mother of Alfie Dingley has called on the home secretary to finally deliver appropriate…
Covid-19: Ethnic minority doctors feel more pressured and less protected than white colleagues, survey finds
Less than a third (29%) of black, Asian, and other ethnic minority doctors in the…
Covid-19 in Peru: from supervised walks for children to the first case of Kawasaki-like syndrome
Godlee appraises the UK government’s response to covid-19.1 Peru is among the countries with the…
Judge rules that baby should be removed from ventilator and given palliative care
An eight week old baby should no longer be kept alive on a ventilator and…
Covid-19: Local health teams trace eight times more contacts than national service
Local health protection teams have traced nearly eight times more contacts (77 642) than the…
UK response to covid-19: obfuscation, misrepresentation, and ignoring advice
Where did the UK’s covid-19 plan go wrong?1 Politics. Despite repeated assurances that it was…
Managing heart failure related peripheral oedema in primary care
What you need to knowAlways consider reasons for decompensation in heart failure, as they may…
Clare Gerada: What to do with appraisal
As we wait for the next phase of the pandemic, many of us are beginning…
How can I make the most of my time shielding?
By shielding we support the NHSSethina Watson, anaesthetic registrar, North Bristol NHS Trust, says, “Anaesthetists…
NHS Test and Trace: it didn’t have to be this way
On the afternoon of 27 May 2020, the UK’s prime minister Boris Johnson told the…
Covid-19 is threatening the survival of US primary care
This is an especially difficult time to be a GP, internist, paediatrician, or other physician…
Five minutes with . . . Aarti Bansal
“Many GPs think that climate change is important, but they still see it as a…
Covid-19: Health and care workers will be “highest priority” for vaccination, says JCVI
“Frontline” health and social care workers will be the “highest priority for vaccination” once a…
Covid-19: public health expertise is being sidelined
Scally and colleagues’ editorial is a clear, concise analysis and call to action.1 As a…