Covid-19: Easing lockdown could risk second spike, say public health doctors
Public health experts have added their voice to growing calls for the government to reverse…
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Harry John Espiner: medical innovator who invented the Espiner bag
Harry Espiner was a distinguished surgeon, researcher, lecturer, and medical innovator who also designed equipment…
Covid-19: GPs angry they were not told about changes to shielding advice
The government’s sudden decision to relax its advice for patients who are most at risk…
How mental health services are adapting to provide care in the pandemic
As the NHS rapidly ramped up critical care capacity to deal with the surge of…
Chief coroner’s guidance on covid-19 deaths: workers outside the NHS are also vulnerable to risk
The BMJ rightly questioned the decision that coroners need not investigate NHS England personal protective…
Covid-19 and ethnicity: it’s too early to point to healthcare provider attitudes as a cause of poorer outcomes
I was perturbed to read Partha Kar’s article in which he postulates that the poorer…
Helen Salisbury: Testing times for GPs
Patients often turn to their GP for advice on how to stay safe in this…
Ronald Marks
bmj;369/jun02_4/m1655/FAF1faEvery Saturday morning in Cardiff, Ronald Marks (“Ronnie”) led a personal ward round, and a…
Investing in the health of girls and women: a best buy for sustainable development
Investments in health are known to generate large social and economic benefits, in addition to…
NHS launches Race and Health Observatory after BMJ’s call to end inequalities
A new NHS centre to investigate the effects of race and ethnicity on people’s health…
Covid-19: Doctors need proper mental health support, says BMA
Nearly a third of doctors have reported that mental health conditions linked to their work…
Covid-19: Women’s health campaigners sue FDA over access to medical abortion pills
A group of prominent women’s health organisations are suing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Covid-19 hot spots appear across Latin America
Central and South America are fast becoming major centres of the covid-19 pandemic as cases…
Sixty seconds on . . . the clap
Gonorrhoea?Ah ha, got you! No, I’m talking about the weekly “clap for our carers” that…
How a US-UK trade agreement could affect NHS drug prices
The governments of the UK and US are working on the outlines of a trade…
How can I make the most of working from home?
Working differently can bring opportunitiesCharlotte Squires, ST3 medical registrar, Borders General Hospital“Remote working has been…
Duty to treat: where do the limits lie?
Doctors are dying. The combination of a novel virus, no existing treatment, and inadequate supplies…
Managing individual and population risk from covid-19
Despite well observed disparities in the severity of covid-19 we lack a sophisticated understanding of…
US to withdraw from WHO as China has “total control” over it, Trump claims
The US will withdraw from the World Health Organization, according to the country’s president, who…
Covid-19 and refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants in Greece
Douglas and colleagues correctly say that refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants are vulnerable to epidemics.1…
Let’s not forget our female front line
Analysis of covid-19 related deaths among UK healthcare workers implies that it is not only…
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Covid-19: Leading statistician welcomes UK government’s move to improve testing data
A leading statistician has welcomed an announcement by the government that it is changing the…
Ethnicity and covid-19: analysis must be inclusive and transparent
Khunti and colleagues discuss the possible association between ethnicity and severity of covid-19.1 Our experience…
Mervyn Theodore Rosenberg
bmj;369/may29_10/m2116/FAF1faMervyn Theodore Rosenberg sadly died at the Wrexham Maelor Hospital on 9 May 2020 aged…
Isobel Vernon Critchley
bmj;369/may29_9/m2111/FAF1faIsobel Vernon Critchley (née Watson) lived all her life in Yorkshire, which she loved dearly….
Tri-ratna Man Tuladhar
bmj;369/may29_8/m2117/FAF1faTri-ratna Man Tuladhar was one of the pioneers of anaesthesiology in Nepal. He was only…
Michael Boland
bmj;369/may29_7/m2110/FAF1faMichael Boland had a leading role in the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Irish…
Covid-19: Doctors criticise Indian research agency for recommending hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis
Doctors in India have decried the Indian health research agency’s intransigence on its recommendation of…
Expanding the definition of covid-19 deaths will show the true effect of the pandemic
Appleby asks what is happening to non-covid deaths.1 The covid-19 pandemic has significantly affected our…
Covid-19: Two thirds of people contacted through tracing did not fully cooperate, pilot scheme finds
A covid-19 contact tracing pilot scheme in Sheffield has found that two thirds of people…
Characterization and clinical course of 1000 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in New York: retrospective case series
AbstractObjectiveTo characterize patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in a large New York City medical…
Covid-19: ensuring equality of access to testing for ethnic minorities
Until successful vaccination programmes are in place governments will be heavily reliant on widespread testing…
Covid-19: the ethics of clinical research in quarantine
The ongoing covid-19 outbreak has resulted in more than 5.4 million cases and over 330…
Protecting “covid protected” cancer hubs
With covid-19 disrupting global healthcare services, people affected by life threatening conditions such as cancer…
Covid-19: Push to reopen schools risks new wave of infections, says Independent SAGE
It is not safe enough for all schools to reopen on 1 June and in…
Maternity unit under investigation for baby deaths was often operating without senior doctor
A hospital trust under the spotlight over avoidable baby deaths provided inadequate antenatal care, with…
Care home reforms should prioritise quality of life
Points made by other respondents to Oliver’s article concerning the indeterminate position of care homes1…
Covid-19: Johnson is on back foot over next steps to control pandemic
The government’s next steps in handling the covid-19 pandemic have come under growing scrutiny with…
Covid-19: Test and trace programmes are important but no silver bullet, say scientists
The success of test, trace, and isolate programmes to control the covid-19 pandemic will depend…
Covid-19: WHO halts hydroxychloroquine trial to review links with increased mortality risk
The World Health Organization has halted testing of hydroxychloroquine in patients with covid-19 after a…
Shielding from covid-19 should be stratified by risk
Protecting those at most risk of dying from covid-19 while relaxing the strictures on others…
Why I . . . run
“When you start running, zero to five km are hard to accomplish,” says Derek Tracy….
Care homes after covid-19: we need a wide ranging inquiry and reform
Oliver rightly reports that care homes are in trouble.1 Covid-19 has laid bare weaknesses of…
National, regional, and worldwide epidemiology of psoriasis: systematic analysis and modelling study
AbstractObjectiveTo systematically review and provide information on the incidence of psoriasis and quantify global, regional,…
Covid-19: Questions of conscience and duty for scientific advisers
England is abandoning lockdown and possibly hope of containing a second wave of covid-19. From…
Research on covid-19 is suffering “imperfect incentives at every stage”
On 11 April Neel Shah, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynaecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard…
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Covid-19: The doctors turned YouTubers
In times of uncertainty we seek information and increasingly that comes online. The world’s second…
Can the UK emulate the South Korean approach to covid-19?
On 29 February 2020, South Korea, a country of similar population size to England, recorded…
Myocardial infarction at night . . . and other stories
Timing of myocardial infarctionAn early morning peak in the incidence of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction…
Care homes after covid-19: the government needs a plan
I welcome Oliver’s plea that care homes are not forgotten (again) by the government after…