Scarlett McNally: Let’s focus on tertiary prevention and perioperative care
We’ve known for millennia that prevention is better than cure. An excellent new report, A…
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Build healthy habits to counteract burnout
As a public health student, I’ve spent a lot of time speaking about healthcare worker…
HIV prevention with postexposure prophylaxis-in-pocket (PIP)
What you need to knowPostexposure prophylaxis-in-pocket (PIP) is an HIV prevention strategy that may be…
Coroner criticises prison and trust over death of baby born without medical assistance
Serious operational and systemic failures contributed to the death of an 18 year old prisoner’s…
Call for more reusable items in intensive care gives me deȷa vu
Baid and colleagues’ article on reducing the carbon footprint of critical care is interesting and…
Obesity: How long should drug treatment last?
Injectable appetite suppressant drugs should be considered a lifelong treatment for obesity rather than a…
Organisational change needed to move towards net zero for asthma care
Smith and colleagues have provided a comprehensive but, one could argue, reductionist review of moving…
Exclusive: GP leaders advise practices not to prescribe cholesterol lowering drug inclisiran
Local GP leaders across the south of England have told practices not to follow the…
Study results show vitamin D is around 99% ineffective in preventing major cardiovascular events
In their study of vitamin D supplementation and major cardiovascular events, Thompson and colleagues state,…
There is no evidence that vitamin D prevents cardiovascular events
The trial by Thompson and colleagues of the effect of vitamin D supplementation on major…
Why I . . . make pottery
For Charlotte Lindsay, making beautiful pottery is not about perfection. In fact, it’s the imperfect…
Rammya Mathew: The fight to retain GPs must start today
The Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme was introduced in 2019 to help expand the general practice…
US doctors are told to look for emerging, potentially life threatening allergic tickborne disease
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has told US doctors to be alert…
Editor’s Choice—going your own way
In medicine, change is in the air. For UK medical students, the removal of the…
Helen Salisbury: Continuing disquiet on the data front
People talk to their doctors in confidence, expecting the details they share about their weight,…
Trusts should review policies for handling sexual assault and harassment of staff and patients, NHS England says
NHS trusts and integrated care boards have been told by NHS England to review their…
Does the UK need a new minister for population health?
“We know what works,” concludes a report into improving the UK’s national health over the…
Leaning into the digital age: the role of TikTok and other technologies in providing mental health information
A quick search of “ADHD” on TikTok produces several videos generated by non-clinicians that describe…
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Why is nitroglycerin in short supply in Canada?
Patients with coronary artery disease in Canada have been facing months of shortages of the…
Covid-19: Leaked cremation data hint at true scale of China’s death rate
Cremation figures released and then quickly withdrawn by authorities in China’s Zhejiang province appear to…
Re-evaluating national screening for chronic kidney disease in the UK
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity that is often…
When I use a word . . . Coroners’ duties: enquiry and prevention
CoronersThe office of coroner in England dates from the end of the 12th century,1 having…
Herbert Christopher Dharmasiri
bmj;382/jul28_9/p1742/FAF1faChristopher Dharmasiri was one of seven siblings growing up in rural Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, and…
Simon Nicholas Marshall
bmj;382/jul28_8/p1735/FAF1faSimon Nicholas Marshall initially obtained a degree in biomedical sciences from Queen Mary and Westfield…
James David Bradshaw
bmj;382/jul28_7/p1733/FAF1faJames David Bradshaw trained in Manchester, specialising initially in respiratory medicine, before retraining in oncology…
Cochrane UK: NHS pulls support
The UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has decided to end its…
Sixty seconds on . . . hot summers
Chance would be a fine thingI know July has been pretty wet in the UK,…
US gynaecologist who sexually abused hundreds of patients is sentenced to 20 years in jail
New York gynaecologist Robert Hadden, 64, who sexually abused hundreds of patients over decades at…
Health workers are in a unique position to help identify human trafficking
Human trafficking is a lucrative crime and a serious human rights violation. Conflicts increase the…
How to reduce medications for people with multiple long term conditions
The studyReeve J, Maden M, Hill R, et al. Deprescribing medicines in older people living…
Hospital appointments: Last minute cancellation widens health inequalities, watchdog warns
Repeated or last minute cancellations of planned NHS appointments are having a catastrophic effect on…
Alarming decline in vaccine update must be tackled, say MPs
The UK’s status as a global leader on vaccination is at risk because of falling…
Bone resorption caused by systemic sclerosis
This woman in her 60s presented with a history of a progressively receding chin over…
Jean Kaseya: New head of Africa CDC faces uphill struggle in post-pandemic era
When the covid pandemic began in 2020, Jean Kaseya was in Italy witnessing how the…
Forearm injury in a young boy
A 9 year old boy presented to the emergency department after a fall onto his…
Phenotypes, cardiovascular disease . . . and other stories
Genome-wide association studies of cardiovascular diseaseAccording to the NHGRI-EBI catalogue of human genome-wide association studies…
Gordon McInnes: professor of clinical pharmacology, past president of the British Hypertension Society, and key figure in cardiovascular research
bmj;382/jul26_17/p1728/FAF1faKnown as “Big Gordon” by colleagues—not least on account of his stature (he was 2…
Strike action: Junior doctors in England announce fifth walkout in August
Junior doctors in England will take further strike action in August, as their dispute with…
Potent synthetic opioids are linked to rise in heroin overdoses and deaths in England
A group of potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes have been linked to a rise in…
Authors’ reply to Braithwaite
We agree with Braithwaite1 that cardiovascular events are usually acutely defined and generally have an…
Risk of diabetes with statins: comparing apples with oranges
Mansi and colleagues appropriately advocate for shared decision making when considering statins for secondary prevention…
Israel: Doctors strike to protest against judicial overhaul
Doctors in Israel have joined mass protests against moves by the government to radically overhaul…
Government reȷects MPs’ calls to restore doctor-patient relationship to heart of general practice
Various steps recommended by MPs last year to improve the doctor-patient relationship in general practice…
Healthcare workers must be included in long covid research in the UK
Patient and public involvement in research into long covid is key to understanding the condition’s…
David Oliver: NHS England targets for new and follow-up outpatient appointments are ill conceived
In February 2022 NHS England published its Delivery Plan for Tackling the Covid-19 Backlog of…
In praise of civility among clinicians
There’s currently no shortage of controversies in medicine, with repeated strikes by doctors and proposals…
Managing raised ferritin in primary care
What you need to knowRaised levels of ferritin can be associated with several serious underlying…
John Launer: Are medical humanities useful?
Several times a year I run sessions for GP training schemes or other groups of…
What is my risk, doctor? Patients should be told risks of untreated disease and side effects of treatment
Bretthauer and Kalager have a point in arguing that absolute disease risk and absolute treatment…
Reflections on the NHS at 75: postgraduate training is the problem
Feature, 1 JulyReflecting on the NHS at 75, Kumar concludes that we should simplify medical…