Effect of crisis in NHS dentistry on dental training
Howard describes the current limitations for patients accessing NHS dental care.1 Patients with dental problems…
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Roe v Wade: Medical bodies declare support for abortion rights, as doctors and states face confusion
Medical bodies in the United States have described their fearfulness at the unfolding situation facing…
US Supreme Court restricts environment agency’s power to regulate carbon emissions
The US Supreme Court has restricted the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) power to regulate carbon…
Covid-19: Sharp rise in infections seen across the UK
Covid-19 infections in the UK are up 32% on the previous week with an estimated…
Frail older people and those in deprived areas remain at risk from covid-19, even after vaccination
The studyAntonelli M, Penfold RS, Merino J, et al. Risk factors and disease profile of…
A cure for everything and nothing? Local partnerships for improving health in England
The NHS in England is being reorganised under the Health and Care Act 2022—the biggest…
Anticoagulants for thrombosis prophylaxis in acutely ill patients admitted to hospital: systematic review and network meta-analysis
AbstractObjectiveTo assess the benefits and harms of different types and doses of anticoagulant drugs for…
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Digital health and care plan: a compelling and surprisingly realistic vision
This week, Sajid Javid, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, published the…
Covid-19: Brazil is recording a fifth of all deaths of under 5s
Covid-19 is killing on average two children under the age of 5 years each day…
GP who ran a gender identity clinic online is suspended for two months
Helen Webberley, a GP who ran a gender identity clinic online, has been suspended from…
Medical students should be guaranteed training posts and access to part time study, BMA says
All UK medical graduates should be guaranteed a foundation training post and be able to…
US Supreme Court sides with imprisoned “pill mill” doctors, raising bar for future prosecutions
Prosecutors who accuse doctors of running opioid “pill mills” as criminal enterprises can no longer…
Immunity and infectivity in covid-19
What you need to knowThe risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission is greatest just before symptom onset…
How to make the most out of your dermatology placement
Dermatology is the study of skin, hair, and nails—the skin being the largest organ of…
NHS launches first standardised induction programme for international medical graduates
A new standardised induction programme for international medical graduates (IMGs) who qualified outside the UK…
GMC’s appeal for GP trainee to be struck off dismissed by High Court
The General Medical Council has failed to persuade a High Court judge that a GP…
Integrated care systems must be agile and avoid becoming ensnared in bureaucracy
The latest in a long line of reorganisations of the NHS in England came into…
BMA must go further and faster on tackling sexist behaviour, annual meeting agrees
The BMA needs to do more to value and support its female members and those…
Overturning Roe v Wade has had an immediate chilling effect on reproductive healthcare
Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States unleashed an unprecedented attack on women,…
Working hour limits must not be axed in post-Brexit legal overhaul, says BMA
Restrictions on doctors’ working hours must not be watered down as part of post-Brexit legislative…
Deborah James: podcaster and cancer campaigner
Deborah James (later Dame Deborah) was a deputy head teacher aged 35 when she found…
LGBT+ health inequalities persist in Scotland, report shows
LGBT+ people in Scotland continue to face major health inequalities in every measure of wellbeing,…
England’s shortage of GPs and practice nurses will escalate over next decade, report warns
More than a quarter of GP and practice nurse posts in England could be vacant…
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NICE recommends three more treatments for atopic dermatitis
Doctors now have three more prescribing options for patients with severe atopic dermatitis who do…
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—30 June 2022
Spare the tonsils?I’m from a generation whose tonsils and adenoids were whipped out at the…
Covid-19: Canada outperformed comparable nations in pandemic response, study reports
Canada performed better than the majority of G10 countries in its response to the first…
Transforming mental health for all
The World Health Organization’s latest world mental health report aims to inspire and inform the…
Abortion: BMA will lobby Northern Ireland Assembly over failure to commission services
The BMA will continue to lobby Stormont to commission safe and accessible abortion services in…
Death and ill health by order of the Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court is a danger to public health and an example of how…
Trust in vaccines . . . and other stories
Improving vaccine uptakeA survey of doctors in the Czech Republic finds, not surprisingly, that they…
NHS outsourcing to private providers is associated with rise in treatable deaths, study shows
Increased outsourcing of NHS services to private providers between 2013 and 2020 was associated with…
Seven days in medicine: 22-28 June 2022
AbortionUS Supreme Court ends constitutional right to abortionDoctors condemned the US Supreme Court’s 24 June…
Airborne SARS-CoV-2
Debate over the exact mode of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been intense.1 This is entirely…
From FDA to MHRA: are drug regulators for hire?
Over the past decades, regulatory agencies have seen large proportions of their budgets funded by…
Long distance airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: rapid systematic review
AbstractObjectivesTo evaluate the potential for long distance airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in indoor community settings…
The fall of Roe v Wade: the fight for abortion rights is universal
On the 24 June 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v…
Roundup from BMA’s annual representative meeting 2022
Government has exploited doctors’ goodwill in pandemic, says BMA chairThe government must guarantee doctors that…
Sixty seconds on . . . evergreen politicians
You mean ones that stick around?In a very real sense. Researchers at Oxford Population Health…
Digital strategy promises more care at home to free up doctors’ time
The NHS app will be improved to support more personalised care from home and free…
Court rules that widower can try for baby using embryo made with his late wife
A widower has won a landmark case in the High Court allowing him to try…
FDA plans to reduce nicotine in cigarettes
The US Food and Drug Administration has announced that it plans to establish a maximum…
Recognising and reporting paediatric side effects
Unintended and unwanted side effects to medications are important and often neglected. Paediatric adverse events…
New, shorter treatments for drug resistant TB are a lifeline for people living through conflict
On a recent visit to a camp for internally displaced people in South Sudan, I…
Monkeypox: What’s behind WHO’s decision not to declare a public health emergency?
World Health Organization officials have said that the global spread of monkeypox does not yet…
Why medicine must catch up on interprofessional education for a safer NHS
A long line of reports into safety in the NHS, including most recently Donna Ockenden’s…
Triage in general practice: key hurdles to overcome
I agree that triage cannot fix the imbalance between supply and demand in general practice,1…
Advances in the management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and progressive pulmonary fibrosis
ABSTRACTSimilarly to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), other interstitial lung diseases can develop progressive pulmonary fibrosis…
David Oliver: Is England’s NHS too “top down”?
This month the government published Gordon Messenger’s independent review of NHS leadership.1 One key finding…
Severe chemosis in lupus
This is the right eye of a man in his 40s who has chemosis (conjunctival…
The devastating health consequences of Sri Lanka’s economic collapse
On 22 May, a 2 day old infant in Haldummulla, Sri Lanka, started to experience…