Royal College of Pathologists: president elect is barred after misconduct allegations are upheld
The Royal College of Pathologists has barred its president elect, Peter Furness, from taking office…
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Measuring multimorbidity beyond counting diseases: systematic review of community and population studies and guide to index choice
AbstractObjectivesTo identify and summarise existing indices for measuring multimorbidity beyond disease counts, to establish which…
UK deal over inclisiran
The UK government recently announced an “innovative and ground-breaking collaboration” with the drug company Novartis…
Matt Morgan: When nothing is the right thing to say
I slept dreadfully that night. I fought with my pillow and perched on the narrow…
Sixty seconds on . . . the war on sugar
Is this like the war on drugs?It’s quite different, not least because this war might…
Addiction psychiatry could be wiped out in a decade without urgent government funding, college warns
Falling trainee numbers mean that addiction psychiatry could be wiped out in the next 10…
Paediatrician left suicide note suggesting he secretly left patients unvaccinated
A popular Chicago paediatrician who took his own life left a note suggesting that he…
BMJ Awards: finalists announced for 12th annual event
The race to recognise the most innovative and inspirational teams working in UK healthcare is…
Why I . . . set up a hockey team
Claire Hope, a paediatric registrar at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, feels that time for hobbies…
The path to a smoke-free England by 2030
Smoking is on course to kill around one billion people in the 21st century1 and…
Developing your career as a haematologist
Haematology is a flexible specialty that offers the opportunity to develop special interests in a…
Prescription for loneliness: five minutes with . . . Helen Stokes-Lampard
“Five years from now, every physician in the NHS will know what social prescribing is…
WHO’s path to elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis
In their recent article in The BMJ (“Is elimination of vertical transmission of HIV in…
Clifton Paget Lowther
bmj;368/feb14_10/m586/FAF1faClifton Paget Lowther (“Tony”) was born in Glasgow and studied medicine at Glasgow University. After…
Ronald William Macandrew
bmj;368/feb14_9/m585/FAF1faRonald William Macandrew (“Ronnie”) was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and then did two years…
Ian James Jones
bmj;368/feb14_8/m588/FAF1faIan James Jones (“Jamie”) was sponsored though medical school by the army. After qualifying in…
Robert John Auld Nicol
bmj;368/feb14_7/m584/FAF1faRobert John Auld Nicol (“Bob”) trained at St Andrews, where qualifying well was so important…
Zuhair Raouf Al-Bahrani
bmj;368/feb14_6/m581/FAF1faZuhair Raouf Al-Bahrani became a professor of general surgery in Baghdad in 1977. He was…
Competing interests: GMC rejects calls to establish central register for doctors
The UK General Medical Council has rejected calls for it to set up a central…
Revamped emergency targets set to be phased in from this April
New NHS waiting time targets for emergency care will be phased in from this April…
Worcestershire acute trust must “make urgent improvements” in emergency departments, says regulator
The Care Quality Commission has used its urgent enforcement powers to protect patients after rating…
Improving transparency and performance of private hospitals
The recent report of the Paterson Inquiry identified multiple levels of dysfunction across England’s health…
Bringing an end to deadly “menstrual huts” is proving difficult in Nepal
Parbati Rawat was 21 years old when she died. “It was the 4th day of…
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Management of acute ischemic stroke
ABSTRACTStroke is the leading cause of long term disability in developed countries and one of…
New primary care network contract could worsen health inequalities
We agree with the concerns voiced by general practitioners about the draft primary care network…
It’s time to act on racism in the NHS
Ethnic minority doctors and patients still face too many injustices in the NHS. The BMJ’s…
Helen Salisbury: Risk taking and decision making
My patient was coughing but is better now. Meanwhile, blood tests reveal that, although there…
Religious beliefs should be treated as any other personal choice
Sokol’s article, including its title (“Religion and spirituality in medicine: friend or foe?”), is unnecessarily…
Pregnancy and rates of Crohn’s . . . and other stories
Childbearing and Crohn’s diseaseAn analysis of data from a Norwegian patient register finds that pregnancy…
Pregnancy and rates of Crohn’s . . . and other stories
Childbearing and Crohn’s diseaseAn analysis of data from a Norwegian patient register finds that pregnancy…
Mind that mushroom medley
This is a picture (fig 1) of flagellate dermatitis. The patient was a 50 year…
Mind that mushroom medley
This is a picture (fig 1) of flagellate dermatitis. The patient was a 50 year…
New onset weakness in the face and arm
A 32 year old woman with a seven year history of discoid lupus erythematosus (a…
New onset weakness in the face and arm
A 32 year old woman with a seven year history of discoid lupus erythematosus (a…
Primary care network contract will exacerbate GP crisis
The specifications of the proposed direct enhanced service (DES) for primary care networks clearly show…
Primary care network contract will exacerbate GP crisis
The specifications of the proposed direct enhanced service (DES) for primary care networks clearly show…
Primary care networks: revised contract averts GP mutiny but staffing challenges remain
The new GP contract deal that secures full national funding for additional practice staff will…
Specialty training: ethnic minority doctors’ reduced chance of being appointed is “unacceptable”
Doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely than white doctors to be considered suitable…
Are medical schools turning a blind eye to racism?
Medical schools in the UK are ill prepared to deal with the racism and racial…
Seven days in medicine: 5-11 Feb 2020
CoronavirusUK declares “serious and imminent threat to public health”The UK government declared that the “incidence…
White doctors are still over-represented in top NHS jobs, study finds
The NHS favours white candidates when hiring for its most prestigious and highly paid positions,…
Study tips for medical students
In this article by Anna Richmond (BMJ 2019;365:k663, doi:10.1136/bmj.k663), two errors occurred in figure 1,…
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Health ministers condemn Novartis lottery for Zolgensma, the world’s most expensive drug
Novartis has held the first draw to choose four babies who will receive its one-shot…
Health secretary is threatened with legal action over treatment of people with learning disabilities and autism
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched a legal challenge against England’s health and…
Comparison of risk factor associations in UK Biobank against representative, general population based studies with conventional response rates: prospective cohort study and individual participant meta-analysis
AbstractObjectiveTo compare established associations between risk factors and mortality in UK Biobank, a study with…
David Oliver: Racism in medicine—what ethnic minority doctors told me on Twitter
When my editor asked me to write a column for this issue, I was hesitant….
Ethnic disparities in maternal care
Maternal health—or lack of it—is one of the starkest examples of racial health inequalities in…
What diagnostic strategies can help differentiate cellulitis from other causes of red legs in primary care?
What you need to knowRed legs owing to non-infectious causes are often misdiagnosed as cellulitis,…
What lies beneath: getting under the skin of GMC referrals
If you’re an ethnic minority doctor working in the NHS you’re twice as likely as…
Racism in medicine: why equality matters to everyone
This issue of The BMJ, with its focus on race and health, comes as the…