England and Wales have seen rise in excess deaths in 2022
Deaths in England and Wales have exceeded the five year average in 2022, official figures…
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Post-submission changes to prespecified statistical analysis plans
Transparency and reproducibility are two of the fundamental principles of evidence generation and dissemination of…
General practice can’t turn into a signposting service
After antenatal care what will be taken from GPs next?1 We have GPs in training…
Covid-19: China reopens borders to medical students, but problems remain
Medical students from India who have been studying in China have been heartened by the…
A blood test for multiple cancers: game changer or overhyped?
Recent results from a trial of a simple blood test that could identify more than…
NHS workers ȷoin Queen’s funeral procession
bmj;378/sep21_14/o2269/FAF1faMinistry of Defence/UPI/AlamyNHS doctors and nurses were among those taking part in the Queen’s funeral…
Culture of surgery must change to support working parents, says royal college
Surgeons who are parents must be offered greater support and flexibility in their jobs as…
How “long covid” is shedding light on postviral syndromes
Long covid really shouldn’t have been a surprise, says Vett Lloyd, a biologist at Mount…
David Oliver: No wonder training grade doctors are unhappy
Being a junior doctor has never been an easy gig during my career. When I…
Covid-19 sets back progress on neglected diseases in India
For 68 year old Shivji Singh, a resident of Govind Chak village in Saran district,…
Unilateral beard
This is a Becker’s naevus on the left chin of a man in his 20s…
External validation of a prediction model for estimating fat mass in children and adolescents in 19 countries: individual participant data meta-analysis
AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the performance of a UK based prediction model for estimating fat-free mass (and…
Crafted responses to covid belong in national galleries
I love not only the textile representations of the coronavirus featured in this news story,1…
Don’t make cancer survivors pay twice—the right for them to be “forgotten” should be law everywhere
An estimated 20 million people in Europe are living after a cancer diagnosis.12 Improvements in…
Monkeypox: NHS offers tecovirimat for severe or complicated cases
The antiviral drug tecovirimat can be offered to symptomatic monkeypox patients who have been admitted…
Teaching about gambling harms in medical school—an opportunity
The coroner’s verdict into the suicide of 24 year old Jack Ritchie, who had been…
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Removing antenatal care from GPs is yet another blow to continuity of care
As usual, Salisbury makes some excellent observations. As a GP working in the same region,…
Balkrishna Kantilal Parikh
bmj;378/sep20_14/o2265/FAF1faBalkrishna Kantilal Parikh (“Bal”) was born was born in Patan, Gujarat, India. He qualified from…
Sexual harassment and abuse in the health sector: data are needed to inform our response
Five years ago, #metoo detonated a global movement as millions of women, and some men,…
Matt Morgan: An ordinary death
The palliative care physician and author Kathryn Mannix described the death of Queen Elizabeth II…
Helen Salisbury: Bank holiday blues
Bank holidays are always a bit of a headache in general practice. The demand from…
Rising energy prices: are people choosing between oxygen and heating?
While NHS leaders warn of “intolerable” winter pressure from rising energy prices,1 and hospitals are…
Long covid: protesters outside the White House demand better care
Protesters took to the pavement outside the White House on 19 September to demand a…
Medical schools: More UK students choosing eastern Europe raises concerns over knowledge levels
The number of British doctors obtaining their medical degrees in eastern Europe is increasing, raising…
How to recognise and respond to reproductive coercion
What you need to knowReproductive coercion refers to actions taken by a person’s partner or…
Menstrual health for all requires wider high level commitment
In August 2022, the Scottish government declared that local authorities must provide access to free…
Why I . . . do calligraphy
A simple request from a friend led medical registrar Sneha Narayanaswami to take up a…
Should “safe space” material be kept confidential?
Airline pilot Martin Bromiley began a campaign to create the Health Service Safety Investigations Branch…
Hungary requires doctors to present women with fetal vital signs before abortion
Doctors in Hungary must provide women with “a clearly identifiable indication of fetal vital signs”…
Fossil fuels: Health professionals call for legally binding plan for global phase out
Healthcare professionals have urged governments across the world to lay out a legally binding plan…
Ig Nobel prize 2022: it’s better to be lucky than smart, how heart rate reveals romantic feelings, and why ice cream works as cryotherapy
Studies that found that it’s better to be lucky than smart, the link between heart…
Elizabeth Johnson
bmj;378/sep16_9/o2220/FAF1faElizabeth Johnson (“Liz”) completed her undergraduate medical training at the University of Cardiff in 1976….
Richard Matthew Dodds
Richard Matthew Dodds was an immensely talented clinician and a rising star in the world…
Paul Robert Hepburn
bmj;378/sep16_7/o2227/FAF1faPaul Robert Hepburn was senior GP principal at the Old School Surgery in Fishponds, Bristol….
John York Moore
bmj;378/sep16_6/o2228/FAF1faJohn York Moore was born in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, to James and Doris York Moore. James…
Shirley Emerson
bmj;378/sep16_5/o2225/FAF1fa(Margaret) Shirley Emerson (née Atkins) was a Geordie from a family of pharmacists whose shop…
Diagnostic accuracy of covid-19 rapid antigen tests with unsupervised self-sampling in people with symptoms in the omicron period: cross sectional study
In this paper by Schuit and colleagues (BMJ 2022;378:e071215, doi:10.1136/bmj-2022-071215, published 14 September 2022), sensitivities…
Unemployment and insecure housing are linked to less successful treatment for depression
The studyBuckman JEJ, Saunders R, Stott J, et al. Socioeconomic indicators of treatment prognosis for…
Investigating abnormal uterine bleeding in reproductive aged women
What you need to knowAbnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is common, and the cause must be…
Sixty seconds on . . . the woman who can smell Parkinson’s
Sounds like a TV documentaryIt probably could be. The synopsis? Scientists harness the power of…
Role of mathematical modelling in future pandemic response policy
Key messagesMathematical modelling is intrinsically difficult given the complexity of relationships between parameters and difficulty…
Stepping away from the formula milk industry: five minutes with . . . Maeve Kelleher
“In my very early career I didn’t really think about it—I just thought formula companies…
Tom Nolan’s research reviews—15 September 2022
Cool runningsThe pages of medical journals aren’t the typical place for a Hollywood feel-good film…
How Big Oil is manipulating climate science
Our world is changing. The UK has a new king (doi:10.1136/bmj.o2196),1 one who believes that…
Dyspnoea with diffuse T wave inversion
A woman in her 50s presented with sudden onset severe chest tightness, shortness of breath,…
Nuclear war and famine . . . and other stories
Nuclear warExcept for a few deranged dictators, everybody knows that a nuclear war would have…
Is covid-19 settling into a pattern?
Is covid settling into a pattern?“It appears that there are two to three waves a…
Medical gaslighting: to say that invoking psychological symptoms is equivalent to dismissal is reductionist
The news article on medical gaslighting raises the important point that doctors should always accept…
Climate crisis: scorecard reveals UK health organisations’ response
A peer reviewed study has for the first time compared the climate credentials of UK…
Regional inequality in myocardial infarction treatment cannot be blamed on effectiveness of individual cardiologists
It is disappointing that variation across England in patient outcomes after myocardial infarction is being…