Harnessing the knowledge of doctors who retire early
Moberly reports that more doctors are opting to retire early rather than wait to claim…
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Long term risk of death and readmission after hospital admission with covid-19 among older adults: retrospective cohort study
AbstractObjectivesTo characterize the long term risk of death and hospital readmission after an index admission…
“Past the point of sanity”—South East Asia faces critical shortage of healthcare workers
When 46 year old Eli Mazur injured his head after a fall, he rushed to…
Reducing unnecessary urine culture testing in residents of long term care facilities
What you need to knowAsymptomatic bacteriuria is a positive result from a urine culture test…
Stigma is stopping an evidence based response to drug overdose deaths in the UK
The number of people in the UK dying from drug overdose is rising, with over…
Hull Royal Infirmary’s maternity services are not safe or well led, says regulator
Maternity services at Hull Royal Infirmary require urgent improvements, the health and care regulator has…
Thelma Bates: enlightened oncologist who pioneered the UK’s first hospital based palliative care service
bmj;382/aug08_7/p1832/FAF1faThe small palliative care team that oncologist Thelma Bates set up in 1977 in St…
Covid-19: Hospital admissions rise in England amid fears of new variant and waning immunity
The number of hospital admissions for covid-19 is rising across England, latest figures show. Experts…
Consultants in England are set to strike in September
Consultants in England have announced plans to take two further days of strike next month,…
Anthea Mowat: anaesthetist, medical politician, and campaigner for equality
bmj;382/aug08_4/p1825/FAF1faAs an anaesthetist, chair of the BMA representative body, and privately, Anthea Mowat was a…
Management of perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms
ABSTRACTMost women worldwide experience menopausal symptoms during the menopause transition or postmenopause. Vasomotor symptoms are…
Breast cancer screening: Overdiagnosis increases significantly with age, researchers say
The risk of overdiagnosis among older women who are screened for breast cancer increases significantly…
US approves daily pill for postpartum depression
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first ever oral treatment for…
Covid-19: Payment to general practices to deliver vaccines to be cut by 25%
The payment that general practices will receive for administering covid-19 vaccines during the upcoming autumn…
Threats to human health multiply amid record global temperatures
The past week saw the world’s first heat related nationwide shutdown as Iran’s government declared…
One year on—the persistent plight of the 2022 floods on health in Pakistan
People in Pakistan continue to suffer one year after the disastrous flooding of July 2022….
UN high level meeting must chart a path to TB elimination
September’s United Nations General Assembly has the potential to deliver historic progress in the drive…
Opioid use disorder: is history repeating itself with sufentanil?
In their 2021 review of treating opioid use disorder in primary care, Buresh and colleagues…
Returning to work in secondary care is tricky
I was disappointed to see the complacency of the head of quality, diversity, and inclusion…
Covid-19: Latin America defies nationalism and circumstance to develop its own vaccines
When the pandemic shook the world in 2020, Argentina, like many countries, went into full…
Russia’s withdrawal from the Ukraine grain deal is weaponising hunger
In 2022, weeks after Russia re-invaded Ukraine, we warned of the risk to food supplies…
Government expands private run diagnostic centres to tackle NHS waiting lists
An extra 13 community diagnostic centres are to join the existing 114 already in operation…
When I use a word . . . Preventable deaths and public awareness
Preventing future deathsAs I have previously described,1 Rule 43 of the Coroners Rules 1984, titled…
Ranjit Singh Sumra
bmj;382/aug04_7/p1790/FAF1faRanjit Singh Sumra was born in Kanpur, India. After graduating he trained in neurology at…
Ellen C G Grant
bmj;382/aug04_6/p1792/FAF1faEllen Grant began her lifetime study of the serious side effects of contraceptive hormones at…
Enrique Zapata-Bravo
Enrique Zapata became a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1987. Until 1976…
George Christopher Metcalfe
bmj;382/aug04_4/p1789/FAF1faGeorge Christopher Metcalfe (“Chris”) grew up in a medical home in Bedford, including four years…
Saeed Fatima Abbas
bmj;382/aug04_3/p1787/FAF1faHaving witnessed the Partition of India and immense social upheaval in her early years, Saeed…
Karna Dev Bardhan: gastroenterologist who pioneered peptic ulcer treatments
bmj;382/aug04_2/p1807/FAF1faKarna Dev Bardhan (“Chandu”) was born in Jhansi, India, to Pramatha Nath Bardhan, a pathologist…
BMA’s GP committee elects new chair
The BMA’s General Practitioners Committee in England has elected Katie Bramall-Stainer as its chair. The…
Reacting too late: humanity’s greatest existential crisis
When existential crises come, they come not single spies but in battalions. Oppenheimer, the film…
“Mighty Casey” Quinlan: outspoken patient activist
bmj;382/aug03_9/p1779/FAF1faCasey was notorious for having a QR code tattooed on her sternum that linked to…
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—3 August 2023
S’not what it seemsCan you tell which snotty-nosed children have acute sinusitis rather than a…
Health leaders urge prime minister to withdraw oil and gas licences
Health sector leaders in the UK have written to Rishi Sunak urging him to withdraw…
Covid-19: US agency launches raft of clinical trials of treatments for long covid
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a series of clinical trials of…
Heliotrope rash
Named after a deep purple flower, this is a heliotrope rash on the eyelids of…
The growing bottlenecks in specialty training
This month hundreds of doctors in the UK will join core (CT) or higher (ST)…
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How climate change is changing dengue fever
Dengue fever is rife in India. In 2022, 230 000 infections and 303 deaths were…
Gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy? . . . and other stories
Bariatric surgeryGastric bypass is generally a better option than sleeve gastrectomy, according to a randomised…
Rising number of countries are controlling tobacco but progress is slowing, WHO warns
More than 150 countries have now implemented one or more tobacco control measures—three times the…
The proportions of term or late preterm births after exposure to early antenatal corticosteroids, and outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis of 1.6 million infants
AbstractObjectiveTo systematically review the proportions of infants with early exposure to antenatal corticosteroids but born…
Menopausal hormone therapy and dementia: causal link remains uncertain rather than unlikely
The results of our nationwide nested case-control study of menopausal hormone therapy and the risk…
New licenses for oil and gas drilling will exacerbate climate crisis—an open letter to the PM
Dear prime minister,We write to you as an alliance of health leaders who are deeply…
Cuts to UK’s foreign aid will lead to thousands of deaths, assessment warns
Thousands of women will die in pregnancy and childbirth and hundreds of thousands more will…
Academic hierarchies are an uphill struggle for black women
The academic landscape in the United States, much like in other parts of the world,…
Medical journals unite in call to eliminate nuclear weapons
More than 100 medical journals, including The BMJ and the Lancet, have issued an urgent…
Physician associates in the media spotlight: what’s the latest on the role?
Why have physician associates been in the news?Concerns about the care of a 30 year…
Situational Judgement Test
I agree with Nabavi that the Situational Judgement Test (SJT) is an exam with potentially…
The current foundation programme allocation system impedes student development
As a penultimate year medical student and part of the 2024 cohort, it was a…
Why we need to ask less of medical students
I was extremely moved by Politis and Hodkinson’s article.1 The pressure described in it resonates…