The economy of wellbeing: what is it and what are the implications for health?
Consensus is emerging that the narrow metrics of prosperity traditionally used in economic debates, such…
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Minding the epistemic gap in covid-19 and beyond
It is heartening to see The BMJ publishing information based on lived experience of covid-19….
John Nicolas Rea: GP and reluctant peer
bmj;369/jun15_13/m2385/FAF1faPhoto credit: Judith ReaThe north London GP Nicolas “Nic” Rea spent a year agonising over…
GP who accepted {pound}189 000 in gifts from patient is allowed back on medical register
A GP who has been suspended from the UK medical register for the past 18…
Covid-19: NHS Test and Trace releases first figures, with experts calling for improvements
The new NHS covid-19 contact tracing service for England identified and advised 26 985 contacts…
Covid-19: Woman whose father died in care home launches legal review over government’s “litany of failures”
A woman whose father died in a care home has launched a judicial review case…
Distinguishing between direct and indirect consequences of covid-19
Analysing trends in cause specific excess deaths provides useful information on the consequences of the…
Covid-19: Cases still rising in at least 23 US states as health officials warn against gatherings
The US should be prepared for a possible rise in cases of covid-19 in coming…
Covid-19: Africa’s case numbers are rising rapidly, WHO warns
Ten African countries account for nearly 80% of all cases of covid-19 in the continent,…
Hydroxychloroquine for covid-19: the end of the line?
Before the covid-19 pandemic hydroxychloroquine was known chiefly as a drug to prevent and treat…
Covid-19: The communication needs of D/deaf healthcare workers and patients are being forgotten
We are two deaf doctors who rely on lipreading in our daily work. The debates…
Covid-19: the medical students responding to the pandemic
The covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the cancellation of thousands of hours of clinical placements,…
Why I . . . dance
One well accepted way of destressing after work is physical exercise—but add mental concentration and…
New observatory will set out actions to tackle racism “within months,” say campaigners
The architects behind the new NHS Race and Health Observatory have vowed that it will…
Violence against women in the covid-19 pandemic: we need upstream approaches to break the intergenerational cycle
The increased levels of violence reported during this pandemic are alarming.1 Not only because of…
Sixty seconds on . . . bubbles
Is this a football reference?No, it’s got nothing to do with West Ham United or…
Geoffrey Patrick Ridsdill Smith
bmj;369/jun12_9/m2311/FAF1faGeoffrey Patrick Ridsdill Smith, known as Patrick, chose to follow a medical career in his…
Christopher John Richard Newbegin
bmj;369/jun12_8/m2313/FAF1faChristopher John Richard Newbegin (“Chris”) was educated at Harrow County School for Boys and St…
Doctors call for meeting to clarify why president resigned from Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
A group of doctors has called for the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh to…
Edward Ernest Cockayne
bmj;369/jun12_6/m2388/FAF1faEdward Ernest Cockayne (“Ted”) was born in Broken Cross near Macclesfield, a mill town in…
Covid-19: Urgent cancer referrals fall by 60%, showing “brutal” impact of pandemic
The number of urgent GP referrals for cancer dropped by 60% in April compared with…
Geoffrey Baer
bmj;369/jun12_4/m2312/FAF1faGeoffrey Baer was born in Mitcham, south London. His father, Max, had migrated from Karlsruhe…
Larry Kramer: author and founding father of AIDS activism
bmj;369/jun12_3/m2300/FAF1faCredit: Stephen Dunn/Hartford Courant/PAThe disease didn’t have a name yet, only a few studies had…
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Too slow and fundamentally flawed: why test and trace is a weak and inequitable defence against covid-19
“I don’t believe the virus is under control, and I don’t believe that the system…
Racism: the other pandemic
Racism is suddenly and at last everyone’s business, and acting against it is everyone’s responsibility….
Ambitious rhetoric and appalling reality: the UK government’s response to covid-19
Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out an ambition to establish a “world class” test and…
David Oliver: The structural problems highlighted by covid-19
There’s been much to celebrate in the extraordinary, professional, and brave response of NHS staff…
Children with pulsus paradoxus . . . and other stories
Pulsus paradoxusPulsus paradoxus is an exaggeration of the normal fall in stroke volume and systolic…
Covid-19 communication aids
Illness related to the novel coronavirus has driven a global crisis, and many clinicians are…
Ethnicity and covid-19
As deaths from covid-19 rose in the UK, it became clear that people with different…
Covid-19: Appropriate PPE prevents infections in doctors in frontline roles, study shows
Provision of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) and training does protect doctors treating covid-19 patients…
Covid-19: Lack of confidentiality affects healthcare staff too
Douglas and colleagues’ article discusses the wider health effects of the pandemic response.1 There is,…
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Covid-19: Students on standby to help with contract tracing
Mahase highlights the government’s reintroduction of contact tracing in the fight against covid-19.1 The government…
Risks to children during the covid-19 pandemic: some essential epidemiology
Difficult and varying decisions are being made worldwide about ways to protect children from covid-19….
Covid-19: Clinicians must be able to access all test results, pathologists say
Future testing programmes for covid-19 or other diseases must be designed so that all results…
Minimum pricing in Scotland leads to fall in alcohol sales
Alcohol sales from supermarkets and off-licences in Scotland fell by 4-5% in the year after…
“Women and children last”—effects of the covid-19 pandemic on reproductive, perinatal, and paediatric health
The covid-19 pandemic has led to abrupt changes in health service delivery—from face-to-face to largely…
Covid-19: Better data on outbreaks will help control infection, say experts
Registered deaths mentioning covid-19 in England and Wales are continuing to decline, with 1822 deaths…
NHS blood unit is “systemically racist” and “psychologically unsafe,” investigation finds
An independent investigation into working conditions at a unit of the NHS’s blood and organ…
GP who was suspended for risky prescribing is allowed to remove himself from the medical register
A GP who was suspended from the UK medical register for eight months over clinical…
Interventions supporting long term adherence and decreasing cardiovascular events after myocardial infarction (ISLAND): pragmatic randomised controlled trial
AbstractObjectiveTo test a scalable health system intervention to improve long term adherence to secondary prevention…
Covid-19: Test and trace system is not fit for purpose, says Independent SAGE
The government’s test, track, and trace system needs a radical overhaul because it is “not…
Covid-19: Doctors launch judicial review over PPE failures
Doctors have launched judicial review proceedings after the government decided not to open an inquiry…
Helen Salisbury: Just say sorry
We’re all human, and we all make mistakes. It’s said that traditional Persian weavers introduced…
Beijing proposes law to ban criticism of traditional Chinese medicine
A law proposed by the Beijing municipality could criminalise statements critical of traditional Chinese medicine,…
Covid-19: Bolsonaro under fire as Brazil hides figures
Brazilians may no longer see their cumulative totals of cases and deaths on the government’s…
Covid-19: Risk of second wave is very real, say researchers
Lockdown measures may have averted 3.1 million deaths from covid-19 across 11 European countries, including…
Data transparency: “Nothing has changed since Tamiflu”
Two leading medical journals retracted research papers on covid-19 last week because the authors said…
There is no stopping covid-19 without stopping racism
Doctors like us who have been working on the covid-19 response in the US have…
Rammya Mathew: We must not be guided by bad science on covid-19
The covid-19 pandemic has forced the scientific world to make a huge number of decisions…