Developing your career as a neurosurgeon
Life as a neurosurgeon is varied, challenging, and rewarding. There are opportunities to subspecialise in…
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Group cognitive behavioural courses may reduce fatigue from rheumatoid arthritis
The studyHewlett S, Almeida C, Ambler N, et al. Reducing arthritis fatigue impact: two-year randomised…
Impaired consciousness: new guidelines aim to ensure people aren’t “lost in system”
Doctors who look after patients in a vegetative or minimally conscious state must ensure they…
Covid-19: 90% of cases will hit NHS over nine week period, chief medical officer warns
Nearly all covid-19 cases will hit the NHS in a “heavily concentrated” burst, with 50%…
US Supreme Court hears pivotal abortion case as pro-lifers seek to undermine Roe v Wade
The matter of abortion was before the US Supreme Court on 4 March for the…
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Diet, nutrition, and cancer risk: what do we know and what is the way forward?
Scientists have suspected for decades that nutrition has an important influence on the risk of…
British and European parliaments must continue to support pan-European research collaboration after Brexit
van Schalkwyk and colleagues discuss the health effects of a no deal Brexit.1 After the…
Prepare for a pandemic
A covid-19 pandemic is highly likely, warns our editorialist, the epidemiologist John Watkins (doi:10.1136/bmj.m810), and…
Minerva . . . and other stories
Two birds with one stoneBy encouraging cycling, cities can reduce air pollution and increase physical…
The BMJ Awards 2020: Dermatology team of the year
Dermatology integrated careIn common with many dermatology services, the one at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor,…
Palmar bilirubin deposits in a man with hyperbilirubinaemia
This is a picture (fig 1) of a 37 year old man with a rare…
A painful swollen hand
A 25 year old man presented with a painful, swollen right hand after a night…
The BMJ Awards 2020: Clinical leadership
Quality improvement trainingQuality improvement is now part of many postgraduate training curriculums; however, junior doctors…
The BMJ Awards 2020: Anaesthesia and perioperative medicine team of the year
Improving tracheostomy careHistorically, tracheostomies were performed on cancer patients, who were managed on surgical wards….
Is it time to nationalise the pharmaceutical industry?
Yes—Mariana Mazzucato, Henry Lishi LiDo we support state ownership of the whole pharmaceutical industry? No….
Seven days in medicine: 26 Feb to 3 Mar 2020
Emergency medicineRoyal college launches campaign to end “corridor care”The Royal College of Emergency Medicine began…
New England Journal of Medicine reviews controversial stent study
The New England Journal of Medicine has launched a review into a trial comparing stents…
Gender reassignment: legal challenge over use of hormone blockers gets green light
The High Court has given the go-ahead for a legal challenge to the provision of…
Half of smokers think nicotine vaping products are at least as harmful as smoking
Deaths from vaping in the US have led over half (56%) of smokers in England…
Associations between macrolide antibiotics prescribing during pregnancy and adverse child outcomes in the UK: population based cohort study
In this paper by Fan and colleagues (BMJ 2020;368:m331, doi:10.1136/bmj.m331, published 19 February 2020), the…
Tackling climate change: “plant good, meat bad” is overly simplistic
We agree that climate change is a reality and is related to human activity, but…
Covid-19: hoarding and misuse of protective gear is jeopardising the response, WHO warns
Nearly 90 million face masks are required every month to protect health staff as they…
David Oliver: Social care—back to an uncertain future
If I’d been writing this column in early 2010, on the threshold of a new…
Obesity: medical leaders call for end to “stigmatising” language
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and more than 100 medical and scientific organisations around…
Overstretched NHS services are sending suicidal students back to universities for help
While Isobel White was struggling with depression and anxiety at university, one of the encounters…
ABC of medical confidentiality
bmj;368/mar04_5/m857/FAF1faA woman who sued the NHS for not telling her during pregnancy that her father…
Rapid access to multidisciplinary diabetes foot care teams
Limb loss is the most feared complication of diabetes, and infected foot ulceration its most…
Groin pain in athletes
What you need to knowInguinal disruption is an overuse injury associated with sports or activities…
Blurred vision
What you need to know“Blurred vision” is synonymous with several different visual disturbances and must…
Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid treatment, and overdose or suicide deaths in US veterans: observational evaluation
AbstractObjectiveTo examine the associations between stopping treatment with opioids, length of treatment, and death from…
Locusts devastate east African crops
bmj;368/mar03_19/m856/FAF1faDai Kurokawa/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockLocal farmer Theophilus Mwendwa runs through a swarm of desert locusts trying to disperse…
Chinese doctors admitted in undercover calls that harvested organs were available, informal tribunal finds
Doctors from leading Chinese hospitals admitted in undercover phone calls that organs harvested from Falun…
Paterson case: “wilful blindness” stems from poor leadership
Yet again a lone “bad egg”—Ian Paterson, the rogue breast surgeon—has put the public’s faith…
Lean methods: inappropriate for healthcare
In Smith and colleagues’ analysis in The BMJ’s Quality Improvement series of infomercial articles, “Lean”…
Health groups criticise EU funded breast cancer screening study as a “missed opportunity”
Critics have branded an EU funded trial looking at the potential for personalised breast cancer…
Covid-19: UK could delay non-urgent care and call doctors back from leave and retirement
Healthcare staff on leave and those who have retired could be called “back to duty,”…
Partha Kar: Is being a doctor a vocation?
Is there some sort of higher calling to join the medical profession, or is it…
Doctors suspended after trans patient has vagina removed without consent
Two urologists have been suspended from the UK medical register, one for mistakenly removing the…
Helen Salisbury: Whose record is it anyway?
From April 2020, patients will have full online access to prospective data from their patient…
Role model: Sakkarai Ambalavanan
“It gives me immense satisfaction to give people the time and attention they need,” says…
In the US, even those with excellent healthcare insurance plans struggle
What the NHS will ultimately look like under the Conservative party has yet to be…
“Stopping the dying”: an interdisciplinary training programme for students
Park and colleagues make a compelling point about the need for increased joint working during…
Sixty seconds on . . . beards
What is this, the Beard Management Journal?Now calm down, we’re not about to start dolling…
Military medical response of the French gendarmerie to terrorist events
Park and colleagues discuss medical responses to a terrorist attack, mentioning the model used by…
Coroner to ask GMC to check vulnerability of doctors it investigates
A coroner is to write to the UK General Medical Council asking it to reform…
Ten years of clinical trial data cannot legally be hidden from the public, US court rules
US public health watchdogs have been failing for years in their legal duty to inform…
Covid-19: US health department staff sent to meet citizens returning from China weren’t protected, claims whistleblower
A senior employee of the US Department of Health and Human Services has filed a…
Covid-19: retired doctors could be asked to return to work, says Hancock
Recently retired doctors may be asked to return to work as part of the UK’s…
Medically assisted dying: Canada tables legislation to broaden accessibility criteria
Canada’s government has tabled new legislation that would remove some of the restrictions placed on…
Summit on drug deaths ends with no agreement
Two days of talks in Glasgow have shown that UK politicians are as far apart…