AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the prognosis of unrecognised myocardial infarction determined by electrocardiography (UMI-ECG) or cardiac magnetic…
Dementia, benzodiazepines, and Z-drugsA longitudinal study of a quarter of a million adults in Denmark…
The UK’s decision to stop community testing and contact tracing for covid-19 in early March…
AbstractObjectiveTo examine changes in categories of soft drink consumption in a cohort of Mexican adults,…
Academics behind the model most cited by the White House in predicting the likely loss…
The linked study by Richardson and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj.m1203) suggests that the effect of self-reported adiposity…
As the covid-19 pandemic intensifies, its gendered effects have begun to gain attention. Though data…
Having both been long stay patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) in the 2000s,…
Guidelines that advise doctors to manage common infant symptoms as cow’s milk allergy are not…
A High Court judge has ruled that an elderly woman with terminal cancer should be…
The UK’s death toll from covid-19 has exceeded 32 000, making it the worst affected…
The news on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in covid-191 is the latest example of the state…
Covid-19 has shone a bright light on the impressive work of NHS intensive care units…
Back in early March, before the covid-19 pandemic had taken hold in the UK and…
UK emergency departments must never return to their previous state of being overcrowded, as well…
In the absence of clear guidance, primary care teams have formulated their own methods to…
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John Berger’s 1995 novel To the Wedding1 was written in response to the horrors of…
Most people with covid-19 are cared for at home, increasing the likely exposure of household…
The coronavirus pandemic has brought unaccustomed attention to doctors working in government departments and arm’s…
Covid-19 survivors who, like me, were in the intensive care unit (ICU), are still a…
Frontline medical workers are at risk of not just adverse physical outcomes from coronavirus disease…
AbstractObjectiveTo examine the psychological effects on clinicians of working to manage novel viral outbreaks, and…
South Korea has announced it will begin easing social distancing measures from 6 May, as…
A large NHS teaching trust has lost an appeal against a damning employment tribunal judgment…
We strongly support Pollock and colleagues’ views.1 We do not understand why the government did…
The central problem of doctors in the west Midlands being told not to start chest…
The UK government has disclosed some of the members of its Scientific Advisory Group for…
The covid-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the need for care planning, especially with…
The higher covid-19 mortality rate among people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds—both in…
GPs will be required to give extra support to care homes, including a weekly review…
In this article by Ho and colleagues (BMJ 2020;368, doi:10.1136/bmj.m688, published 18 March 2020) the…
What is happening to non-covid deaths?In this feature by John Appleby (BMJ 2020;369:m1607, doi:10.1136/bmj.m1607) figure…
Ivanova Smith, a 31 year old woman who lives in Tacoma, Washington, says she “would…
Guideline: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection in pregnancyPublished by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG),…
Shortages of items such as antibiotics, anaesthetic drugs, and painkillers have forced doctors to offer…
The rapidly developing covid-19 epidemic has stimulated an enormous effort to develop vaccines against the…
Sayburn refers to Public Health England guidance recommending the use of FFP3 masks when performing…
NHS leaders in England have been told to “risk-assess” and make “appropriate arrangements” to protect…
Another NHS app?I know it seems like we’re hearing about a new one every week…
Local plans tailored to different parts of the UK rather than a centralised and one-size-fits-all…
The UK’s Office for National Statistics has published new figures showing deaths involving covid-19 by…
Commercial agreements between the UK government and manufacturers of covid-19 antibody tests are allowing the…
Doctors and researchers are noticing some curious and unexpectedly positive side effects of the abrupt…
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Greenberg and colleagues rightly state that the development of psychological injury is “influenced by the…
Coroners have been issued with new guidance on covid-19 deaths steering them away from investigating…
Key messagesCompartmental modelling studies on covid-19 should not be relied on as the only approach…
Last month the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists introduced new guidance1 on covid-19 and…
Most UK medical schools have postponed clinical teaching because of the covid-19 pandemic, leaving students,…
In this analysis (BMJ 2020;369:m1107, doi:10.1136/bmj.m1107, published 29 April 2020), one of the five serious…
The most concerning complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection (covid-19) is acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure requiring mechanical…