Category: BMJ

In the hierarchy of evidence, randomised trials are near the top, trumped only by meta-analysis…

ScurvyScurvy once occurred in seafarers and long distance travellers. Currently, the most vulnerable group seems…

The imminent change of leadership at the top of the World Health Organization’s European region…

This is a picture of phytophotodermatitis (fig 1).bmj;368/jan23_4/l6969/F1F1f1Fig 1The patient was a 50 year old…

The title of Klaber and Bailey’s editorial, Kindness: an underrated currency, conceals a greater wisdom…

I agree with Klaber and Bailey that we should all try to be more kind…

bmj;368/jan22_10/m151/FAF1faAfter enjoying national service as an army captain in Hong Kong and undertaking an obstetrics…

bmj;368/jan22_9/m153/FAF1faJohn Phillips Mckay was the loving husband of Marjorie of blessed memory, a much loved…

bmj;368/jan22_8/m154/FAF1faJeannette Alexandra Ferguson was born on Guernsey, the daughter of Alexander and Emily Ferguson and…

bmj;368/jan22_7/m152/FAF1faDane Stephen Jonathan Maw, known as Jonathan, was born in Bath on 8 September 1937….

We read the new framework from the British Association of Perinatal Medicine1 and The BMJ’s…

bmj;368/jan22_11/m150/FAF1faGillian Bluck (“Gill”) was the daughter of a Methodist preacher and a Methodist lay preacher….

Gender dysphoria can be difficult terrain for primary care doctors. Gender identity and gender dysphoria…

In peer teaching, learners are taught by those similar in age or at a similar…

Pharmaceutical companies are tackling the overselling of antimicrobials by withdrawing their sales agents or removing…

bmj;368/jan21_12/m246/FAF1faStonewestThe names of Florence Nightingale, Alice Augusta Ball, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie have been added to…

I write on behalf of NoGrazie (http://www.nograzie.eu/), an Italian movement of health professionals and citizens…

A consultant in emergency medicine has been struck off the UK medical register after a…

AbstractObjectivesTo study the impact of blinding on estimated treatment effects, and their variation between trials;…

Evidence based medicine compels us to challenge assumptions and dogma. Health interventions should be subject…

Gowri Yale, a veterinarian with a PhD in rabies epidemiology, was manning a 24 hour…

On 1 January 2019, abortion care became more widely available in the Republic of Ireland….

The essence of blinding is withholding information about treatment assignment from people involved in the…

Moynihan and colleagues suggest ways in which healthcare decision making could become free of commercial…

Rules allowing NHS pension benefits to be suspended if a doctor is charged with a…

Moynihan and colleagues propose ways to produce healthcare evidence independent of commercial interests.1The design of…

When the discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene was announced in October 1989 at a…

Tamsin Greenwell, a consultant urologist and honorary associate professor at University College London, was originally…

This sounds importantMinisters would like you to think so. The newly re-elected Conservative government has…

Reticence and etiquette hampered “calling out” when face to face interactions were the norm.1 But…

A hospital trust fingerprinted staff and asked for samples of their handwriting after the family…

On the cold night of 20 December, lawyers, doctors, journalists, and worried families gathered outside…

Like other female doctors, I have long been accustomed to the assumption that I am…

A career in obstetrics and gynaecology can be stimulating and rewarding. The specialty is wide…

Social media companies should be forced to hand over their data to universities for independent…

The government has been criticised for its handling of the growing costs of two delayed…