Is daily supervised buprenorphine-naloxone dosing necessary?
An estimated 40.5 million people worldwide met criteria for opioid dependence in 2017, and 109…
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How South America became a global role model for abortion rights
Just five years ago, Latin American countries where abortion was not a criminal offence were…
NHS to tackle climate change: insulating buildings would be a good start
NHS England’s Greener NHS scheme smacks of novelty and greenwashing.1 Often the improvements needed are…
Covid-19: UK will not buy Evusheld owing to “insufficient data” on protection, government says
The UK government has said that it will not procure the covid-19 drug Evusheld—a combination…
Antidepressants and the serotonin hypothesis of depression
A recent umbrella review of evidence for the serotonin theory of depression1 was widely reported…
Extending or ignoring reference ranges is part of GP culture
Salisbury admirably confesses to filing laboratory results just out of normal range as satisfactory.1 This…
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Albert Kenneth Woodward
bmj;378/aug12_10/o1984/FAF1faAfter completing his house officer posts in Birmingham, Albert Kenneth Woodward (“Ken” joined the Royal…
Ian Michael Glynn: carried out groundbreaking research into the sodium pump
bmj;378/aug12_9/o2010/FAF1faIan Glynn, emeritus professor of physiology at the University of Cambridge, teacher of many medical…
Are children more accepting of death than adults?
The death of a child is for most parents the worst thing that could happen…
Covid-19: Study provides further evidence that mRNA vaccines are safe in pregnancy
Pregnant women experienced lower rates of significant adverse events after vaccination with a covid-19 mRNA…
When I use a word . . . . Too much healthcare—overdefinition
OverdefinitionI have previously discussed medical overdetection1 as one of two major causes of overdiagnosis.2 The…
Ongoing remifentanil shortage forces anaesthetists to relearn techniques from a decade ago
Ongoing remifentanil shortages are disrupting anaesthetists’ work and forcing them to relearn about drugs and…
Tavistock to face possible clinical negligence claims over gender identity service
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London is facing possible clinical negligence claims by…
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Mary Gillies
bmj;378/aug12_11/o1988/FAF1faElizabeth Mary Gunn’s parents worked as teachers in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, and moved to…
Acute vertigo: getting the diagnosis right
What you need to knowAll patients presenting with brief episodic acute vertigo or unsteadiness should…
Wellcome pledges to act after being branded “institutionally racist”
Wellcome is still an “institutionally racist organisation” and continues to fall short of its commitment…
Resolving conflict about treatment for seriously ill children
On Saturday 6 August, another high profile case of conflict between parents and doctors about…
Why we need full pay restoration
Doctors in the UK today are paid around 30% less than they were in 2008…
A dream about value, the NHS, and end of life care
Dreams have content but no meaning, much like life. We have responded by creating myriad…
Polio vaccine is offered to all children in London aged 1 to 9 after virus detected in sewage
The NHS will offer a booster or catch-up polio vaccine dose for children aged 1…
Roe v Wade: How its scrapping will affect women worldwide
In 2018 a reproductive health organisation in Kenya found that anti-abortion advocates had put the…
Gender in Nepal’s health sector
Gender means different things to different people. At its crux, gender is a construct to…
Abortion: Indiana becomes first US state to enact an almost total ban
The US state of Indiana will ban abortions after 15 September 2022 except in cases…
Rammya Mathew: Doctors are being pushed to the absolute brink
Like most doctors, I’ve got a few type A personality traits. I’m ambitious, I take…
Doctor who misdiagnosed girl’s fatal appendicitis as stomach bug receives warning
A consultant paediatrician who misdiagnosed appendicitis as a stomach virus and allowed a 5 year…
The changing face of monkeypox
More than 50 years ago in 1970 the then US Surgeon General allegedly stated that…
Cardiologists’ effectiveness varies widely by region, research suggests
Data suggest substantial regional variation in the quality of cardiologists when treating patients with myocardial…
Covid-19 vaccination in pregnancy
ABSTRACTPregnancy is an independent risk factor for severe covid-19. Vaccination is the best way to…
Harms of alcohol in different age groups
“Our message is simple: young people should not drink, but older people may benefit from…
An ethicist’s view on the Archie Battersbee case: a bad situation made worse
For weeks, the details of the Archie Battersbee case have filled the pages of newspapers…
Adopting new technology is crucial to surgeons’ training, says report
Technology enhanced training should be integrated into surgical training alongside hands-on experience, the report of…
GP died by suicide after pressure from ȷob became “overwhelming,” says husband
The recent suicide of a Surrey GP has been blamed on the “overwhelming” pressure of…
Why the monkeypox outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern
On 23 July, I declared the global monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international…
As prime minister, Boris Johnson did not do enough to tackle racial inequalities
Even before Boris Johnson became prime minister in July 2019, Black and ethnic minority ethnicity…
Breaking down barriers to medicine: five minutes with . . . Emmanuel Oyelami
“Growing up, medicine was something I always wanted to do, but I didn’t know how…
US Senate passes landmark bill to tackle climate change and cut drug costs
A huge bill encompassing climate, healthcare, and spending was passed by the US Senate on…
Covid-19: What we know about the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron variants
When and where were these subvariants detected?BA.4 and BA.5 were first detected in South Africa…
Heat illnesses in clinical practice
What you need to knowIncreased frequency and intensity of heatwaves are leading to greater incidence…
Reporting guideline for overviews of reviews of healthcare interventions: development of the PRIOR statement
AbstractObjectiveTo develop a reporting guideline for overviews of reviews of healthcare interventions.DesignDevelopment of the preferred…
Prognosis and persistence of smell and taste dysfunction in patients with covid-19: meta-analysis with parametric cure modelling of recovery curves
The insertion of a phrase in this paper by Tan and colleagues (BMJ 2022;378:e069503, doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-069503,…
Sixty seconds on . . . medical gaslighting
Is this something to do with the Ingrid Bergman movie?That would be the 1944 film…
Smell and taste dysfunction after covid-19
In this editorial by Boscolo-Rizzo and colleagues (BMJ 2022;378:o1653, doi:10.1136/bmj.o1653, published 27 July 2022) a…
Tobacco control without a maximum nicotine level in products is a smokescreen
The title of Agrawal’s editorial on Khan’s report on tobacco control policy that challenged the…
Archie Battersbee’s life support is withdrawn after parents lose legal battle
A 12 year old boy with catastrophic brain damage had mechanical ventilation withdrawn on Saturday…
Monkeypox: Concerns mount over vaccine inequity
Global health experts, including senior World Health Organization officials, have expressed concern that the vaccine…
Ildikō Schuller
bmj;378/aug05_10/o1953/FAF1faIldikō Schuller was born to an English mother and a Hungarian refugee father and displayed…
Dhanji Damji Shah
bmj;378/aug05_9/o1955/FAF1faDhanji Damji (DD) Shah was a highly respected and widely loved senior psychiatrist, working in…
Lesley Lord
bmj;378/aug05_8/o1950/FAF1faImmediately after qualifying Lesley Craft married a fellow member of the year, David Lord, and…
Dara Khadjeh Nouri
bmj;378/aug05_7/o1952/FAF1faDara Khadjeh Nouri was educated in England, After qualifying from Barts he did his surgical…
Climate crisis: Wellcome has failed to set a clear red line for the fossil fuel industry
The Wellcome Trust has taken the decision to stop investing in a number of fossil…