Assisted dying: all dying people need good palliative care services
No one disputes that good end of life services must be properly financed but Thorns…
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Covid-19: UK’s chief scientific officer defends make up of advisory group
Public health specialists have reacted with incredulity to an assurance from the UK’s chief scientific…
Clare Gerada: Understanding burnout
In my early 40s I felt exhausted: I was juggling general practice, motherhood, and carving…
Pregabalin and gabapentin for pain
What you need to knowPregabalin and gabapentin can be effective as first line treatment for…
Prevalence of diabetes recorded in mainland China using 2018 diagnostic criteria from the American Diabetes Association: national cross sectional study
AbstractObjectiveTo assess the prevalence of diabetes and its risk factors.DesignPopulation based, cross sectional study.Setting31 provinces…
Covid-19: protecting patients in hospital for neurorehabilitation and their therapists
One of the unforeseen challenges for NHS hospitals during the covid-19 epidemic1 is ensuring the…
Necrotising fasciitis
What you need to knowNecrotising fasciitis can present with non-specific signs that evolve rapidly over…
Covid-19: Leading statistician slams UK’s reporting of swab tests as “travesty of science”
A leading statistician has criticised the UK government’s daily reporting of covid-19 swab test results,…
Covid-19: What do we know so far about a vaccine?
The World Health Organization has announced that 83 potential covid-19 candidate vaccines are being assessed…
Patient records can be shared across practices and with 111 after NHS relaxes rules
GPs will now be able to access records for patients registered at other practices during…
GP who was suspended for poor recording keeping and delayed referrals is allowed to work again
A GP who was suspended for nine months from the UK medical register for failings…
What the Diamond Princess taught the world about covid-19
On 20 February, the World Health Organization announced that more than half the known cases…
Mourning our dead in the covid-19 pandemic
I came back to Ireland in 2001, after working for 14 years in the NHS….
Catherine Hamlin: internationally renowned humanitarian and fistula surgeon
bmj;369/apr27_6/m1661/FAF1faCredit: Kate GeraghtyThanks to Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist Catherine Hamlin (née Nicholson), the lives and…
Global regulatory agility during covid-19 and other health emergencies
To manage the covid-19 pandemic effectively, we must have confidence in our diagnostics and medical…
Managing patients with rheumatic conditions during the covid-19 pandemic
Chronic rheumatic conditions are other long term conditions that could be negatively affected by the…
Doctors’ deaths from covid-19 should be reported to the coroner
The sad news at the time of writing (2 April 2020) that four doctors working…
Sixty seconds on . . . doughnuts
Mmmm, doughnuts . . .Yes, they are a tasty snack—but these sweet treats have caused…
Mitigating the wider health effects of covid-19 pandemic response
Countries worldwide have implemented strict controls on movement in response to the covid-19 pandemic. The…
Elizabeth Rang
bmj;369/apr24_10/m1650/FAF1faElizabeth Rang (née Clapham) was born in Oxford where her father, botanist Arthur Roy Clapham…
David Oliver: Let’s not forget care homes when covid-19 is over
Care homes have been very badly hit by the covid-19 pandemic. This has highlighted their…
Margaret Elmes
bmj;369/apr24_8/m1647/FAF1faMargaret Elmes (née Staley) was a supportive, generous doctor who combined her medical research with…
Anthony David Barry Chant
After qualifying Anthony David Barry Chant (“Tony”) worked in Cardiff under the supervision of Archie…
Covid-19: environmental health officers and retired doctors step up to fill contact tracing void
Hundreds of environmental health professionals have offered their time and expertise to help with contact…
Administration of end-of-life drugs by family caregivers during covid-19 pandemic
Doctors, nurses, and family caregivers worldwide are facing tough decisions concerning the supply and administration…
What is happening to non-covid deaths?
Concerns are being raised that one possible consequence of efforts to contain covid-19 could be…
Pernicious anaemia
What you need to knowConsider pernicious anaemia in patients complaining of unexplained fatigue, memory loss,…
Covid-19: Doctors performing resuscitation need higher level of PPE, says royal college
Doctors and nurses carrying out resuscitation on patients with covid-19 must be given the highest…
Covid-19: Trust withdraws guidance that doctors need not put “covid-19” on death certificates
An NHS hospital trust has been forced to withdraw guidance telling doctors that they need…
Covid-19: Doctors should be alert for signs of myocardial injury, says NICE
Doctors treating patients with known or suspected covid-19 should be vigilant for signs of acute…
Covid-19: Keep essential malaria services going during pandemic, urges WHO
Deaths from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa could return to levels last seen 20 years ago…
Covid-19: New government study aims to track infection and immunity in population
The UK government has launched a nationwide surveillance study to track the prevalence of infection…
Covid-19: BMA demands full death in service benefits for UK doctors
The BMA has written to the chancellor of the exchequer calling for all NHS workers…
Covid-19: Indian government vows to protect healthcare workers from violence amid rising cases
The Indian government has given an ordinance that makes violence against healthcare workers a non-bailable…
Covid-19: Two thirds of healthcare workers who have died were from ethnic minorities
Two thirds of healthcare workers who have died from covid-19 were from an ethnic minority…
Keeping up with studies on covid-19: systematic search strategies and resources
The reason I write this letter is to take a small step towards helping readers…
Immunomodulators and their long term safety . . . and other stories
Safety of new treatments for multiple sclerosisImmunomodulating treatments help people with multiple sclerosis by reducing…
Covid-19 management: it’s inappropriate to make ȷudgments in hindsight that rely on information not available at the outset
Critics of covid-19 management say that something should have been done weeks before it was,1…
Video consultations for triage of patients with covid-19
Greenhalgh and colleagues discuss the potential use of video consultations for covid-19 and outline some…
Seven days in medicine: 15-21 April 2020
Covid-19Care home residents and staff are promised testsThe pledge to boost covid-19 testing for staff…
Maternity care inquiry expands to almost 1200 cases
An inquiry into childbirth cases of “serious and potentially serious concern” at Shrewsbury and Telford…
Remdesivir in covid-19
The recent publication of an industry sponsored, open, non-randomised study of remdesivir in a heterogeneous…
Ibuprofen can mask symptoms of infection and might worsen outcomes, says European drugs agency
The European Medicines Agency’s pharmacovigilance risk assessment committee (PRAC) has recommended updating the product information…
A “Deep Breath In” for GPs
“Deep breath in … and out. Again, deep breath in … and out.”We tune in…
The Brazilian slums hiring their own doctors to fight covid-19
Like many people around the world just now, those living in the São Paulo neighbourhood…
Covid-19: Care home deaths in England and Wales double in four weeks
New figures showing a sharp rise in the number of deaths in care homes in…
Bridging the quality gap in diagnosis and treatment of malaria
The rapid scale-up of malaria prevention and treatment over the past two decades has led…
David Oliver: What the pandemic measures reveal about ageism
Older age and a range of underlying medical conditions mean a higher risk of serious…
What will we learn from covid-19? That we live in an uncertain world
Salisbury asks what we might learn from the covid-19 pandemic.1 At times like this, we…
David William Young
bmj;369/apr21_23/m1604/FAF1faDavid William Young was consultant physician at Dudley Road Hospital (now City Hospital) in Birmingham…