Undergraduate degrees will no longer count towards specialty training applications
The recruitment process for specialty training is to change from 2023, with undergraduate degrees including…
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Insomnia: Large study shows how well different drugs work
Two drugs not yet licensed in the UK, eszopiclone and lemborexant, seem to perform better…
Sixty seconds on . . . the end of hangovers?
The dream is finally hereA new pill touted as the end of hangovers sold out…
Once you believe something exists you can listen to patients and fund research
Although understandable, it is a pity that it often takes a family member being affected…
Unpaid carers are the missing piece in treatment guidelines and research priorities for ME/CFS
The recent publication of an all party parliamentary group report,12 a National Institute for Health…
Covid-19: Antimicrobial resistance rose dangerously in US during pandemic, CDC says
Resistance to antibiotics and to antifungals rose dramatically during the covid pandemic, reversing previous gains,…
How hot weather kills: the rising public health dangers of extreme heat
Paris, 9 August 2003: Eugénie Thievent, 88, dies alone in her top floor apartment in…
A teenager with horizontal purple stripes on the lower back
A boy in his mid teens presented with multiple horizontal linear marks on his lower…
NICE approves two more treatment options for advanced breast cancer
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended two more breast cancer…
Long covid and apheresis: a miracle cure sold on a hypothesis of hope
In desperate times, even in good times, we all need hope. Hope is essential and…
Withdrawing volatile anaesthetic agents limits options for patients, particularly women and children
Sherman and Chesebro provide strategies for reducing inhaled anaesthetic pollution in their editorial.1 Although arguably…
Health policy priorities for the next prime minister
The UK will soon have a new prime minister. Boris Johnson stepped down as Conservative…
GP partnership model will not be scrapped, senior officials insist
Senior officials have insisted that there are no plans to scrap the GP partnership model…
Pay gap: Women in healthcare sector earn 24% less than men, international report finds
Women working in healthcare earn on average 24% less than their male peers and face…
Pronouncing my name as best you can matters to me as your colleague
Torjesen’s article on how to deal with a colleague who keeps mispronouncing your name resonated…
Showing respect to colleagues is more complex than how well they pronounce your name
Torjesen finds out how to deal with the problem of a colleague mispronouncing your name.1…
Covid-19: MPs call for greater efforts to reach the unvaccinated and partially vaccinated
MPs have called on NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to redouble…
Why are vaccination rates lower in low and middle income countries, and what can we do about it?
Covid-19 vaccine distribution has brought global inequities in healthcare access into sharp relief. In the…
Safety of heterologous primary and booster schedules with ChAdOx1-S and BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 vaccines: nationwide cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo assess the risk of adverse events associated with heterologous primary (two dose) and booster…
Giant molluscum contagiosum in a child with HIV
This is a molluscum contagiosum with a circumference of 5 cm on the face of…
David Oliver: Covid-19 and the Dunning-Kruger effect
In 1999 two social psychologists, Dunning and Kruger, described the phenomenon of “illusory superiority”: a…
Authors’ reply to Booth and colleagues
We thank Booth and colleagues for their comments.1 As we outlined in our editorial,2 we…
Online NHS 111 service made no difference to call handlers’ workload, study finds
The introduction of an online version of NHS 111 in England made no discernible difference…
Diabetes and brain ageing . . . and other stories
Brain changes in people with type 1 diabetesPeople in middle age or older who have…
Investigating suspected lung cancer
What you need to knowUp to a quarter of lung cancers are diagnosed in people…
Scottish NHS patients can visit US expert for mesh removal surgery
Women in Scotland who suffered life changing side effects from transvaginal mesh implant surgery have…
Covid-19: Researchers face wait for patient level data from Pfizer and Moderna vaccine trials
Independent researchers looking to obtain patient level data from the Pfizer and Moderna covid-19 vaccine…
Drug company asks FDA to approve over-the-counter contraceptive pill
The French drug company HRA Pharma has asked the US Food and Drug Administration to…
Chemotherapy delivery service by drone lifts off
bmj;378/jul12_12/o1709/FAF1faPatients with cancer in England will be the first in the world to benefit from…
Diagnosing prostate cancer at a curable stage means providing PSA tests to asymptomatic patients
Bradley and colleagues’ editorial1 reiterates outdated uncertainties around prostate specific antigen (PSA) based screening for…
Covid-19: Parts of England see hospital admissions more than double in two weeks
Some areas of England have seen the number of patients in hospital who have tested…
NHS Race and Health Observatory conference: leaders give their views
What do you think needs to change in health education?Victor Adebowale, NHS Confederation chair and…
Serving the community: the returning GP
After almost 30 years working as a GP in a small practice in north Wales,…
Mental health: cultural competency is key to improving outcomes for ethnic minority patients, leaders say
The NHS must tackle the negative stereotypes that patients from racial and ethnic minorities face…
Fever therapy in febrile adults: systematic review with meta-analyses and trial sequential analyses
AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the effects of fever therapy compared with no fever therapy in a wide…
Rammya Mathew: Keep caring, even when it’s hard
Until recently I thought that primary care had earned the top spot as the Cinderella…
Clinical prediction models for mortality in patients with covid-19: external validation and individual participant data meta-analysis
AbstractObjectiveTo externally validate various prognostic models and scoring rules for predicting short term mortality in…
Helen Salisbury: The commercial determinants of health
Sometimes my job seems impossible. I’m trained to treat individuals with physical and mental health…
Expert wisdom on prostate cancer testing not evident in NHS commissioning guidance
In their editorial on diagnosing prostate cancer in asymptomatic patients, Bradley and colleagues highlight both…
Covid-19: Ethnic minority staff felt “vulnerable” during pandemic, says senior leader
Minority ethnic healthcare workers have felt “vulnerable” and uncared for during the covid-19 pandemic, with…
Covid-19: Hospitals and GP clinics return to universal mask wearing as rates rise
Hospitals and general practices around the country are once more insisting on mask wearing by…
Racial inequality: five minutes with . . . Michael Marmot
“During the pandemic I knew we had to look at ethnic differences in health because…
President Biden issues executive order to try to protect abortion rights
The US president issued an executive order on 8 July in an attempt to protect…
Boris Johnson and health: unfulfilled promises
Much has already been written, and more will be, on Boris Johnson’s political legacy. While…
People of all ages benefit from drugs to lower blood pressure
The studyThe Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists’ Collaboration. Age-stratified and blood-pressure-stratified effects of blood-pressure-lowering pharmacotherapy…
Manjula Arora case: united we stand
If something doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t. And nothing feels right about the General…
Air pollution is a public health emergency
Respiratory and cardiovascular disease were the two main causes of the 12 000 deaths estimated…
Workforce: the persistent victim of the covid-19 pandemic
In the past week, 11 000 people were admitted to hospitals in England with covid…
Doctor who secretly filmed women with hidden cameras is struck off
A doctor who secretly filmed women with cameras hidden in bathrooms and accessed intimate images…
Maternal health: “white” medical curriculum needs overhaul to tackle racial inequalities, campaigners say
Tackling the large racial inequalities seen in maternal health will require changes to the education…