Delhi’s air becomes dangerous to breathe as pollution season takes hold
The air in India’s capital, Delhi, air is currently hazardous even for healthy people to…
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The NHS should do more to prevent fatigue in healthcare staff
All doctors will be familiar with the feeling of being tired after a long shift…
Improving safeguarding of unaccompanied migrant young people
Unaccompanied asylum seeking children are young people aged under 18, separated from their legal guardians,…
Woman is awarded {pound}1m after consent form for vaginal mesh surgery was altered
A woman who suffered serious injury from vaginal mesh implanted without her informed consent has…
Sharp Scratch episode 97: The first generation medical students
In this episode of Sharp Scratch, we talk all about what it’s like to be…
Should people with mental illness be able to commit themselves to future involuntary treatment?
Yes—Tania Gergel and Allen FrancesMany people with severe episodic mental illness, such as bipolar disorder,…
Alcohol harms: the UK government is missing in action
This autumn the UK government has initiated two public consultations on alcohol policy. The first…
Treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms in men in primary care using a conservative intervention: cluster randomised controlled trial
AbstractObjectiveTo determine whether a standardised and manualised care intervention in men in primary care could…
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital gets new mental health unit
bmj;383/nov15_2/p2662/FAF1faGareth JonesAlder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool has opened a new specialist mental health inpatient…
Delaying umbilical cord clamping for two minutes cuts deaths in premature babies, studies show
Waiting for two minutes or longer to clamp the umbilical cord reduces the risk of…
Nature and climate crisis: adaptations need to “spread like wildfire”
Accelerating climate change and loss of biodiversity have created a global health emergency.1The record heatwave…
If social determinants of health lead to death then we should list them on death certificates
I agree with air pollution being listed on death certificates.1 In principle, we should list…
Social, clinical, and policy implications of ultra-processed food addiction
An error occurred in the reference citations in this article by Ashley Gearhardt and colleagues…
Offer children chickenpox vaccine with MMR, JCVI recommends
Children should be offered vaccination against varicella (chickenpox) as part of the routine childhood schedule…
Why I can’t continue to strike
I am a consultant in the NHS and a member of the BMA. I did…
Scarlett McNally: We must all change, not just the bad apples
A recent report by the Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery found that 30%…
The burden of decolonising global health
Rasheed writes about the need to reframe the approach towards decolonising global health, giving a…
Food banks are running out of resources—there’s no time to lose
The latest figures from the Trussell Trust showing the number of emergency food supplies given…
The UK government has failed to act on extreme poverty
In 2018, Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty, described in detail the…
Pause plans for data sharing contract to ensure trust and patient consent, plead doctors’ leaders
Doctors’ leaders have urged the secretary of state for health and social care to reconsider…
Autism intervention meta-analysis of early childhood studies (Project AIM): updated systematic review and secondary analysis
AbstractObjectiveTo summarize the breadth and quality of evidence supporting commonly recommended early childhood autism interventions…
Why I . . . do woodworking
A handcrafted cocktail cabinet takes pride of place in consultant anaesthetist Robert Loveridge’s front room—the…
Helen Salisbury: Prescribing and the multidisciplinary team
Although some general practice consultations end in simple advice or referral, most result in prescription…
Widening participation is for life, not just for admissions
Widening participation efforts in medicine aim to remove the barriers to a medical career faced…
Can general practice still provide meaningful continuity of care?
General practice is in crisis with falling numbers of general practitioners and low morale. For…
Early, intense therapy for language problems after a stroke is linked to the greatest benefits
The studyBrady MC, Ali M, VandenBerg K, et al. Complex speech-language therapy interventions for stroke-related…
Semaglutide reduces risk of major cardiovascular events by 20%, finds study
A weekly injection of semaglutide (Wegovy) resulted in a 20% reduction in the risk of…
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Victoria Atkins replaces Steve Barclay as health secretary
Victoria Atkins has been appointed health and social care secretary in a cabinet reshuffle on…
What have we learnt from the covid-19 inquiry so far?
The covid-19 inquiry is currently focusing on core UK decision making and governance. Recent witnesses…
The healthcare community must approach the violence in Israel and Gaza with inclusive compassion
The tragic events unfolding in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories are a failure of…
Covid-19: excess death rates and the cost of living crisis
Now that the covid-19 pandemic is over, surely other non-covid factors should be considered to…
Stop attacks on Gaza’s hospitals, agencies plead, amid collapse of services
The regional directors of Unicef, the UN Population Fund, and the World Health Organization joined…
The potential weaponisation of kindness
Sokol discusses the General Medical Council’s guidance that doctors should treat patients and colleagues with…
Proton pump inhibitors
What you need to knowDiscuss with patients the importance of lifestyle modification for the long…
Rethinking self-care through an Indigenous lens—the importance of community
Western self-care tends to centre on practices that are aimed at supporting the health of…
“Two eyed seeing”—embracing both Indigenous and western perspectives in healthcare
In Canada, genocidal policies and systems have devastated Indigenous peoples’ determinants of health.1 For example,…
Better prescribing for safer, more effective healthcare
Written prescriptions for medicinal products can be traced back over 4000 years.1 Little is known…
NHS must let doctors work more flexibly throughout their careers, says GMC
Health services must adapt to changes in the way that doctors want to progress their…
Covid inquiry: What we learnt this week
Chickenpox was not a helpful analogueGiving evidence on 8 November,1 Mark Sedwill, the former cabinet…
“Unforgivable” rise in deaths in children must prompt action, health leader warns
The number of child deaths in England has increased by 8% in the past year,…
Why does the UK continue to trail other high income countries in health outcomes?
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s latest health report makes for sobering reading for…
Sixty seconds on . . . tongue twisters
She sells seashells by the seashore?Yes, that’s the kind of thing. What was once the…
Government in disarray over plans for social care in England, says watchdog
The UK’s spending watchdog has accused the government of lacking a long term funded plan…
When I use a word . . . Medicines regulation—the British Pharmacopoeia
The General Medical CouncilThe main purpose of the Medical Act of 1858, “An Act to…
Generalist skills are vital to serve ageing population, says England’s CMO
Doctors should “recommit to maintaining generalist skills” as they specialise so they can “respond to…
Abortion rights victories in US state and local elections
Results in US state and local elections this week showed that voter anger unleashed by…
Foreign NHS doctors face persistent racism at work, survey finds
International medical graduates working as doctors in the NHS in the UK experience persistent racist…
A presentation to flesh out
This is a 12×6 mm soft, pink nodule with a small area of ulceration in…
Ironing out kinks in the evidence base
Pity poor Terry Hamblin. In 1981 in The BMJ the haematologist from Bournemouth set out…
Sean McMahon
bmj;383/nov09_16/p2577/FAF1faSean McMahon was born in Cullyhanna, County Armagh. The youngest of seven children, he attended…