Covid-19: New data on Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine backs 12 week dosing interval
The UK’s approach of leaving an interval of three months between doses of the Oxford…
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Progress “painfully slow” on air quality and other environmental issues, inquiry concludes
The UK government is failing to deliver on its 2011 promise to improve the natural…
Covid-19: Four in 10 people with evidence of past infection had no classic symptoms, study finds
Around one in four people who had evidence of past covid-19 infection were completely asymptomatic,…
Deaths from alcohol hit record high during 2020, show figures
An urgent inquiry is needed to understand why deaths from alcohol hit record levels in…
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Put to the test: use of rapid testing technologies for covid-19
Governments have invested enormous resources in scaling up testing capacity in their responses to covid-19….
David Oliver: Wider health determinants aren’t ȷust for pandemics
Health politics are dominated by the power of the immediate. Future health gains through long…
John Cash: former director of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, who warned against imported blood products
bmj;372/feb03_6/n312/FAF1faCredit: Keith Breeden, Royal College of Physicians of EdinburghJohn Cash, whose persistent warnings about the…
Matt Morgan: I’m a celebrity, get me remdesivir!
Just as I hoped that public understanding of the current covid-19 crisis was improving, and…
Giant retinal tear in Stickler syndrome
This retinal image using ultrawide field laser scanning shows retinal detachment as a result of…
China races to contain covid outbreak
bmj;372/feb02_17/n307/FAF1faYang Shiyao/Xinhua News Agency/PAAfter a new outbreak of covid-19 last month, China is constructing a…
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Covid-19: People who have had infection might only need one dose of mRNA vaccine
People who have already had confirmed covid-19 might only need a single dose of a…
Hugh W Simpson
bmj;372/feb02_15/n269/FAF1faHugh W Simpson was an explorer (recipient of Polar and Mungo Park medals), mountaineer, accomplished…
Ronald West Strachan
bmj;372/feb02_14/n275/FAF1faRonald West Strachan (“Ronnie”) was born in Aberdeen, attended Aberdeen Grammar School, and in 1947…
Marjorie Lind Wright
bmj;372/feb02_13/n277/FAF1faMarjorie Lind Wright was always known as Lind Wright. She had a three part career:…
Nayneeta Subodh Deshmukh
bmj;372/feb02_12/n266/FAF1faNayneeta Subodh Deshmukh (“Neeta”) did her MD in pathology in 1989 and came to the…
Nayneeta Subodh Deshmukh
bmj;372/feb02_12/n266/FAF1faNayneeta Subodh Deshmukh (“Neeta”) did her MD in pathology in 1989 and came to the…
Faieza Jabeen Qasim
bmj;372/feb02_11/n268/FAF1faAt the age of 4, growing up in Nairobi, Faieza Jabeen Qasim had decided she…
Faieza Jabeen Qasim
bmj;372/feb02_11/n268/FAF1faAt the age of 4, growing up in Nairobi, Faieza Jabeen Qasim had decided she…
Ageism in Indonesia’s national covid-19 vaccination programme
Concern about vaccine nationalism is well founded,1 but it has overshadowed another form of injustice:…
Covid-19 vaccination: the dangers of “values” imperialism
In response to Schwartz on equitable global access to covid-19 vaccines,1 Lloyd-Sherlock and colleagues2 consider…
US pathologist who deceived drug testers and misdiagnosed patients is sentenced to 20 years
A pathologist who worked for the US Veterans Administration (VA) has been sentenced to 20…
Racial bias in pulse oximetry: more statistical detail may help tackle the problem
We were glad to see a news article1 highlighting research by Sjoding and colleagues2 which…
Covid-19: Surge testing for the South Africa variant begins in England
What is being deployed?The government announced this week that it was rolling out additional surge…
The rise of the green general practice
If you think of a climate crusader you might picture someone chained to a tree…
Helen Salisbury: Trust me, I’m the family doctor
“Family doctor” might be an old fashioned way of describing a general practitioner, but it…
Effect of redundant clinical trials from mainland China evaluating statins in patients with coronary artery disease: cross sectional study
AbstractObjectiveTo identify redundant clinical trials evaluating statin treatment in patients with coronary artery disease from…
Covid-19: volunteers cannot be outsourced
A spokesperson from the Department of Health and Social Care said that there were no…
Homeless man should have double leg amputation to save his life, says judge
A High Court judge has ruled that it would be in a homeless man’s best…
Covid-19: Novavax vaccine efficacy is 86% against UK variant and 60% against South African variant
The SARS-CoV-2 vaccine produced by the US biotechnology company Novavax is 95.6% effective against the…
Covid-19: AstraZeneca vaccine is approved in EU with no upper age limit
The European Medicines Agency authorised Astra Zeneca’s SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for use in all adults aged…
Covid-19: social and behavioural responses to chaotic decision making
“Chaotic decision making,” as well as undermining the government’s response to the pandemic,1 also lowers…
Covid-19: WHO warns against “vaccine nationalism” or face further virus mutations
World Health Organization officials have voiced concerns at “vaccine nationalism” which could increase the risk…
Why we . . . cook for each other
King Edward Road Surgery is a busy practice in Northampton with 30 permanent staff and…
The UK’s poor record on covid-19 is a failure of policy learning
The UK’s response to covid-19 compares poorly with that of other countries. The reasons are…
Social care: Promise to propose reforms later this year is far from reassuring, says committee chair
The chair of an influential House of Lords committee has rebuked the government’s promise to…
January blues: Exam season in a pandemic
Although the January blues1 might be familiar, this year’s context has meant that the exam…
Open letter to Chris Whitty and Susan Hopkins: change covid-19 case definition in line with WHO to save lives
I hope this letter sharing 140 (and counting) general practitioners’ clinical experiences of patients with…
Sixty seconds on . . . TikTok doctors
We’re not talking about clocks?No, we’re talking about the video sharing social media platform TikTok….
Study reveals wide health disparity between different ethinc groups in England
Some people from minority ethnic groups appear to have much poorer health than white people—which…
Covid-19: Countries are learning what others paid for vaccines
A string of revelations about vaccine prices has focused attention on a practice considered normal…
Covid-19: South Africa variant found in the US as Biden expands health coverage
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on 28 January that two…
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for musculoskeletal pain
What you need to knowOral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can reduce musculoskeletal pain but increase…
Increasing recruitment into covid-19 trials
Since March 2020, UK researchers have established over 70 urgent public health studies to investigate…
The perils of pillow talk with the other doctor in your life
It’s tempting, isn’t it? If you’re a couple of doctors, it’s hard to resist getting…
Covid-19—a rehearsal to build a greener and healthier society
The covid-19 pandemic is hopefully a short-lived global crisis adding to existing global challenges arising…
Explaining covid-19 performance: what factors might predict national responses?
Key messagesThe Global Health Security Index predicted that the world in general was not well…
Covid-19 pandemic and the social determinants of health
The covid-19 pandemic has exposed the longstanding structural drivers of health inequities, such as precarious…
International collaboration and covid-19: what are we doing and where are we going?
The 19th century pandemics that followed the globalisation of commercial and military activities led to…
Promoting reusable PPE: five minutes with . . . Jasmine Ho
“MedSuppyDrive UK started last year. There was PPE in our labs not being used and…
Covid-19: India is at centre of global vaccine manufacturing, but opacity threatens public trust
On 3 January, India’s top drug regulator issued emergency approval for two vaccines for restricted…