COP27: What can we expect from this year’s climate change conference?
What, and when, is COP27?The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) will take place…
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The cost of keeping warm and the price of inadequate policy
We are in the middle of an energy price crisis,1 with energy insecurity, fuel poverty,…
Government is ignoring “ticking time bomb” of deteriorating population health, says BMA
The UK government must regard the population’s health as crucial to sustainable economic growth rather…
NHS at risk of “complete collapse” from exodus of consultants, BMA warns
The BMA has urged the government to avert a major exodus of senior hospital doctors…
Menopause: Government must tackle “postcode lottery” of treatment, says report
Prescription costs for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in England should be scrapped as in the…
Monkeypox: Virus DNA is widespread in treatment rooms, study finds
Healthcare workers treating patients with monkeypox should use personal protective equipment (PPE), regularly disinfect any…
Join the fight against fossil fuels
In September, the World Health Organization, along with hundreds of other health organisations, signed a…
Recurrent facial paralysis and weakness
A woman in her 50s presented with a history of at least five paroxysmal episodes…
Reducing the health impacts of ambient air pollution
What you need to knowInhaling polluted ambient air has many health effects, including childhood onset…
Armour-like hyperkeratosis
This is erythrodermic psoriasis on the chest of a man in his 30s (fig 1).bmj;379/oct12_5/e070300/F1F1f1Fig…
False climate change narratives undermine health sector engagement
Health professionals are increasingly learning how climate change is harming their patients’ health1 and, unsurprisingly,…
How cars take lives in more ways than just crashes
It is no secret that man made chemical emissions pose risks to human health, but…
Returning to the core practices of being a doctor to avoid physician burnout
The study on burnout provides valuable insight into physician wellbeing.1 The association between physician burnout…
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It’s time to widen the capture of gestational diabetes in the UK
Loder’s outlining of less-than-ideal contemporary efforts to tackle public health1 are laudable.1The systematic review and…
Kenneth Theodore Evans
bmj;379/oct11_10/o2402/FAF1faKenneth Theodore Evans (“Ken”) was appointed as the first professor of radiology in Wales in…
Insulin access still “severely limited” in low income countries, report finds
Efforts by pharmaceutical companies to tackle global insulin inequity are “fragmented” and “falling short,” with…
The challenge for COP27
bmj;379/oct11_14/o2433/FAF1faA farmer stands among the carcasses of his livestock as drought threatens 2.8 million people…
Towards net zero healthcare
What you need to knowReduce use of health services and improve healthcare efficiency by integrating…
Gwyn Amman Evans
bmj;379/oct11_12/o2399/FAF1faGwyn Amman Evans was an eminent children’s and adult orthopaedic surgeon at the Robert Jones…
Sylvia Joyce Jordan
bmj;379/oct11_11/o2403/FAF1faSylvia Joyce Jordan won a scholarship to Christ’s Hospital during the second world war and…
Atrial fibrillation: Most UK media “promote screening” despite lack of evidence, study finds
Screening for atrial fibrillation has largely been promoted by commentators, NHS organisations, and charities that…
Helen Salisbury: Massaging the waiting list statistics
Internal guidance from NHS England—as reported by the Health Service Journal1—indicates that patients who decline…
How can I make the NHS greener?
As healthcare professionals, we have a unique opportunity and obligationEleanor Damm, co-chair of the environmental…
Adolescents and youth are prioritising human rights in the climate change agenda
Climate change is increasingly affecting the human rights to life, food, health, safe drinking water…
Covid-19: Antiviral purchased by UK government does not lower risk of hospital admission, trial shows
Molnupiravir, a covid-19 antiviral drug bought by the UK government in the amount of 2.23…
Vaccine effectiveness of primary series and booster doses against covid-19 associated hospital admissions in the United States: living test negative design study
AbstractObjectiveTo compare the effectiveness of a primary covid-19 vaccine series plus booster doses with a…
Former British Journal of Sports Medicine editor is subject of a slew of retractions
The British Journal of Sports Medicine has retracted nine further non-research articles by its former…
What would it take for you to protest about the climate emergency?
If you opened a print copy of The BMJ a couple of weeks ago, you…
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Covid-19: Hospital admissions rise in England as some trusts reinstate mask requirements
The number of people admitted to hospital with covid-19 in England rose by almost a…
Growing pressure on NHS threatens frontline services
Several factors indicating serious pressure on the NHS have prompted workforce and financial experts, as…
Caring for the carers: we need to talk about tackling staff suicide
The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is making mental health and wellbeing…
NHS trusts should provide everyone with a locker
I am pleased to see that two of the doctors interviewed by Torjesen have managed…
Hopeful not helpless: How doctors are combating climate change
“Climate change is the greatest threat to human health we face right now,” says Hannah…
Evusheld: Government is urged to expedite covid antibody treatment for vulnerable patients
The UK government has been urged to re-examine its decision not to purchase a new…
US gun deaths increased by 35% during the early covid-19 pandemic
US gun deaths increased by 35% from 2019 to 2020, the beginning of the covid-19…
“Shopping around” for treatment is not a solution to cancer backlog
The covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated extensive backlogs in the diagnostic and treatment pathways for patients…
Management of chronic migraine
ABSTRACTChronic migraine is a neurologic disorder associated with considerable disability, lost productivity, and a profound…
Sixty seconds on . . . sponge parks
Is that Spongebob’s cousin?Actually, we’re talking about something a lot more porous than the underwater…
Michael Sanders: neuro-ophthalmologist who diagnosed Jane Austen’s cause of death
bmj;379/oct07_9/o2412/FAF1faBorn in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, where his parents ran a tea plantation, Michael David…
Ebola: Uganda battles fresh epidemic as infections threaten to spread
Ugandan health authorities are setting up emergency response teams, isolation centres, and treatment tents in…
Doctor who plagiarised medical education theses is suspended for six months
A doctor who plagiarised two other doctors’ theses when submitting his own thesis for a…
Covid-19: Don’t let economic crisis distract from preparing for a future pandemic, conference hears
Most countries haven’t learnt all the lessons of the covid pandemic and need to take…
Learning networks in the pandemic: mobilising evidence for improvement
Key messagesThe paucity of evidence during the early phase of the pandemic provided an opportunity…
Acute infections in people who inject drugs
What you need to knowHave a low threshold for imaging with computed tomography (CT) angiography,…
Tobacco control, climate change, public health, primary care—the name of the game is “conflict of interest”
Although the involvement of big companies in dictating the terms of tobacco control and responses…
A good death
It is uncanny how timely the piece about death as the great leveller is, considering…
It makes no sense for Therese Coffey to continue to vote against measures to prevent climate change
I found this analysis of the position of the new health secretary Thérèse Coffey informative,1…
Climate emergency: Millions at risk of famine and disease in Somalia
Somalia is on “the frontline of the global climate emergency” with the forecast of a…
Psilocybin: a revolution in psychedelic medicines in the US?
Six decades ago, hallucinogenic drugs such as psilocybin and LSD were having a heyday in…
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—6 October 2022
Checkpoint inhibition: hopeful in lung cancer…Extensive stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) that has spread…