Post-training employment of clinical academics requires improvement
A focus on integrated academic training1 as a method of “fixing” academic medicine would be…
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Four year medical degrees in the UK: consider a final year apprenticeship instead
Finn and colleagues make several excellent points.1 Four year graduate entry courses are a useful…
Randomised controlled trials on radiation dose fractionation in breast cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis with emphasis on side effects and cosmesis
AbstractObjectiveTo provide a comprehensive assessment of various fractionation schemes in radiation therapy for breast cancer,…
Obesity: Only half of England has access to comprehensive weight loss services
Access to services across England for obesity treatment is severely restricted, an investigation by The…
Liraglutide: Weight loss injection is effective in children aged 6-11, study reports
The weight loss injection liraglutide, branded as Saxenda, effectively reduced body mass index (BMI) in…
Prostate cancer incidence and mortality in Europe and implications for screening activities: population based study
In this paper by Vaccarella and colleagues (BMJ 2024;386:e077738, doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-077738, published 4 September 2024), the…
Tackling UK’s long term sickness will improve NHS productivity, analysis finds
A “whole of government” approach to tackling long term sickness and economic inactivity could return…
John Launer: Having fun with feedback
I recently went on a country walk with two medical friends, and for some reason…
Essex mental health inquiry will uncover more deaths, says chair
The UK’s first statutory inquiry into mental health deaths is expected to unearth many more…
Highs and lows of being a drug user
bmj;386/sep11_1/q1975/FAF1faMartina HoffmannFrom alcohol and caffeine to heroin and ayahuasca, art has for centuries been used…
Helen Salisbury: Resisting the temptation to offer advice
When people consult their GP they often arrive with a clearly defined medical problem—a pain,…
RCP showed bias in handling members’ concerns over physician associates, review finds
The Royal College of Physicians demonstrated “organisational bias” and was dysfunctional in its handling of…
Sexual health: Public health leaders call for 10 year strategy to tackle soaring STI rates
Public health leaders have called on the government to take “bold” action and commit to…
The Ride for Ella
The World Health Organisation says that air pollution contributes to seven to eight million premature…
The many costs of condensed medical degrees
Finn and colleagues highlight the potential unintended consequences of shortened medical degrees—particularly regarding access to…
Independent inquiry finds serious governance failures at the Royal College of Physicians of London
“… a range of collective failures in leadership” (page 3)“… a clear lack of accountability…
Holistic modelling as a catalyst for effective obesity policy
Despite longstanding government rhetoric of a commitment to tackling obesity, UK policies have not provided…
Lightning strikes the health of low income workers in India
On the morning of 6 July, 48 year old Leela Devi went to harvest moong…
Great Ormond Street Hospital reviews over 700 children treated by former surgeon
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London is urgently reviewing all 721 patients of…
Legal clarity allows the use of GnRH analogues in research
The Cass review of the care of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria was a…
Limit appointments to ensure safe working, GPs advised
GPs should extend the length of their appointments to 15 minutes, a move which would…
Four year medical degrees reduce diversity of medical students and care for disadvantaged groups
I agree with Finn and colleagues that the four year undergraduate medical degree will only…
Doctors in Louisiana sound alarm as criminalisation of abortion drug looms
Three weeks before a Louisiana law comes into force criminalising the possession of the common…
Covid:19: NHS staff still struggling with “traumatic memories” of pandemic, report finds
Doctors and other NHS staff are still dealing with the devastating events they experienced during…
GMC appeals eight month suspension of surgeon who sexually harassed colleagues
The General Medical Council is appealing a decision by a medical practitioners tribunal to suspend…
Protecting early career physicians from commercial influence
“To influence physicians from the bottom up” reads an internal company document published in the…
Maintaining a personal identity: the consultant radiologist
From an early age Jumana Hussain was told, “It doesn’t matter what background you’re from,…
Will we ever know where covid-19 came from?
“Simply preposterous,” said Anthony Fauci, responding in a US congressional hearing to one more in…
Navigating US participant data sharing requirements: implications for international clinical trials
Despite practices and guidelines to promote the transparency of clinical trials such as the sharing…
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry reveals fundamental weaknesses of governance
In 2017, one of us wrote in this journal that “it is impossible to achieve…
Patient related outcome measures (PROMs) in long term conditions—is it time to bring them into routine clinical practice?
In most consultations about long term conditions, healthcare professionals tend to focus on patients’ clinical…
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Doctor is struck off over “unconventional” treatments on children
An 87 year old doctor has been struck off the UK medical register after she…
Ernest Kirwan
bmj;386/sep06_6/q1938/FAF1faErnest (Curly) Kirwan was born in Kolkata, India, to an Anglo-Irish ophthalmic surgeon father and…
Wendy Elizabeth Ann Wood
bmj;386/sep06_5/q1937/FAF1faWendy Wood started her career as secretary to the matron of the Middlesex Hospital. Matron…
Henry Hellmut Gossman
bmj;386/sep06_4/q1931/FAF1faHenry Gossman was born in Berlin in 1925. His paternal grandmother was Jewish and despite…
Vyakara Kanaka
bmj;386/sep06_3/q1934/FAF1faVyakara Kanaka was born into a medical family in Chennai, India. Her father was the…
Hugh Parker Dinwoodie
bmj;386/sep06_2/q1932/FAF1faHugh Dinwoodie was a GP, an enthusiastic piper, a lifelong climber, and a keen archaeologist….
Michael George Francis Crowe
bmj;386/sep06_1/q1933/FAF1faMichael Crowe was born in Harrogate, the son of Nora and Squadron Leader (later Air…
“Two tier system” is leaving children’s healthcare lagging adults’, paediatricians warn
A lack of investment is creating a two tier system in the NHS that is…
Female doctors close the gender promotion gap but international male doctors fare less well
Women have closed the “gender promotion gap” since the covid-19 pandemic but male doctors from…
Why are doctors being warned about the Oropouche virus?
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Pan American Health Organization…
Public engagement in defining triage before future pandemics
The covid-19 inquiry has considered many areas of the pandemic response and where improvements need…
Giant conjunctival papillae
This is vernal keratoconjunctivitis, a chronic, bilateral, and often seasonal allergic inflammation of the conjunctiva…
Citizens’ assemblies, health, and health policy
The UK’s Labour government inherited a health service with waiting list times at a record…
Diabetes and bone fracture . . . and other stories
Type 2 diabetes and risk of fractureIn a Swedish longitudinal study, older women with type…
The future of medicine lies in nurturing our “uniquely human” skills
Last month, I was teaching ethics to medical undergraduates in Jammu, India. They were the…
Bankrupt local authorities heap pressure on primary care, say GPs
The Financial Times memorably dubbed the crises faced by an incoming Labour government as “Sue…
Underfunding public health has wide ranging consequences
The UK parliament returns this week, with the government facing several major challenges. High among…
Seven days in medicine: 28 Aug to 3 Sep 2024
PayConsultants in Northern Ireland accept pay offerThe BMA’s Northern Ireland Consultants Committee has accepted a…
Surgical hubs can help tackle hospital waiting lists in England, study suggests
The expansion of NHS surgical hubs in England should be “turbocharged,” as new research indicates…