Covid-19: Where are we on immunity and vaccines?
Do the recent vaccine papers tell us anything new?There was a flurry of excitement last…
Category: British Medical Journal
UK should consider a more cautious approach to PPE
The study by Liu and colleagues is impressive—none of the 420 healthcare workers became infected…
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Leicester lockdown: could better data have prevented it?
Leicester was the first place in the UK to be singled out for a local…
Tomisaku Kawasaki: identified and named Kawasaki disease
bmj;370/aug05_5/m3091/FAF1faPhoto credit: Tsubara KawasakiNot many physicians have a disease named after them. Tomisaku (“Tomi”) Kawasaki,…
Pulmonary embolism: update on management and controversies
ABSTRACTPulmonary embolism is a common and potentially fatal cardiovascular disorder that must be promptly diagnosed…
How hierarchical communication “rules” hamper doctor training and patient care
When Chris Turner was a house officer near Edinburgh, he had to go to a…
Comparison of dietary macronutrient patterns of 14 popular named dietary programmes for weight and cardiovascular risk factor reduction in adults: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised trials
In the paper by Ge and colleagues (BMJ 2020;369:m696, doi:10.1136/bmj.m696, published 1 April 2020), one…
Government to get CQC-style ratings for its performance on health and social care
MPs have set out their plans for an independent evaluation process designed to hold the…
Planetary health underpins an economy of wellbeing
I was both excited and disappointed to read Cylus and Smith’s article on the economy…
Stella Gibson
bmj;370/aug04_5/m3039/FAF1faStella Elizabeth Grace Gibson was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in 1927 to William Hamilton Gibson,…
Covid-19: NHS Test and Trace must improve for schools to reopen safely, say researchers
The current NHS Test and Trace programme in England must significantly improve if schools are…
Covid-19: UK hospitals to get rapid tests from September
The UK government has spent £161m (€178m; $210m) on 5.8 million covid-19 testing kits, which…
Fighting malaria with genetically modified mosquitoes
On 29 July 2019, the Target Malaria insectary was opened at the Uganda Virus Research…
Four in 10 dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by targeting risk factors, report says
Around 40% of dementia cases worldwide could have potentially been delayed or prevented if 12…
Coca-Cola’s work with academics was a “low point in history of public health”
An analysis of thousands of emails has shown the extent to which Coca-Cola sought to…
The leading cause of death in the US
bmj;370/aug03_7/m3079/FAF1faAre you tired of hearing about covid-19? I am too. So, here’s a tirade about…
Covid-19: which country has the most effective lockdown?
I understand from Habib’s article that Sweden’s decision not to mandate lockdown has been a…
Sixty seconds on . . . waves
The pandemic friendly greeting?No. We’re talking about the “second wave of the [covid-19] pandemic” that…
Misleading media coverage of Sweden’s response to covid-19
Sweden does not have a herd immunity strategy, and it is irresponsible for The BMJ…
Covid-19: Should the UK be aiming for elimination?
Scotland is urging England and Wales to join Scotland and Northern Ireland in a four…
Covid-19: US needs a national plan to fight rising infections, experts say
Three scientific organisations have proposed plans for the US to gain control of the pandemic…
Long term respiratory complications of covid-19
The extent and severity of the long term respiratory complications of covid-19 infection remain to…
Tom Graham
bmj;370/jul31_10/m3040/FAF1faTom Graham was a member of a select group of paediatricians in the army in…
Covid-19: Sandwell Council in West Midlands sets up contract tracing, citing failures of national scheme
A council in England has set up its own covid-19 contact tracing system because of…
Covid-19: Tighter restrictions imposed in the north of England as cases spike
People in Greater Manchester, Lancashire, and West Yorkshire are no longer allowed to have visitors…
[Lack of] Diversity at the RCGP: five minutes with . . . Naureen Bhatti
“Doctors from Africa and South Asia have supported NHS general practice since its inception, so…
What can we tell patients with prolonged covid-19?
In inner London, where we saw some of the earliest cases of covid-19 in the…
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Covid-19: England had worst excess mortality in Europe in April
England had the longest period of excess mortality of any European country during the covid-19…
Roy William Lamb
bmj;370/jul31_12/m3044/FAF1faFrom 1962 to 1993, Roy William Lamb (“Larry”) was a GP and anaesthetist in Stroud,…
Sushma Sharma
My mother, Sushma Sharma, was born Sushma Jhinghan on 17 September 1932 in Balawali, Bijnore,…
Peter John Lewis Hunter
bmj;370/jul31_9/m3042/FAF1faAfter qualifying Peter John Lewis Hunter decided to specialise in ophthalmology, and in 1947 he…
Krishan Chandra Gupta
bmj;370/jul31_8/m3041/FAF1faKrishan Chandra Gupta was the first of his family to study medicine. He was a…
Paul Anthony Bramley
bmj;370/jul31_7/m3013/FAF1faPaul Anthony Bramley was consultant oral surgeon to SW Region Hospital Board (1954-69) and to…
Hugh James Hoyland
bmj;370/jul31_6/m3011/FAF1faHugh James Hoyland (“Jim”) was a general practitioner of the old school. He started in…
Runa Mackay
bmj;370/jul31_5/m3008/FAF1faAfter spending her childhood in Hull, where her father was an ophthalmologist, Runa Mackay graduated…
Alfa Saadu
bmj;370/jul31_4/m3007/FAF1faIt is not often that the NHS can celebrate the life of a doctor who…
Mohammad Omar Ali
bmj;370/jul31_3/m3014/FAF1faMohammad Omar Ali (“Omar”) moved from his native Bangladesh to the UK in 1968 to…
Donald Macgregor Brown
bmj;370/jul31_2/m3012/FAF1faDonald Macgregor Brown was a trusted and respected consultant anaesthetist, who spent many devoted years…
NHS England workforce plan fails to tackle staff shortages, say health leaders
Healthcare leaders have welcomed ambitions set out in an NHS workforce plan for England to…
Covid-19 and chronic fatigue
Salisbury’s article on patients with prolonged symptoms of covid-19 should be distributed to all healthcare…
RCP: Voluntary appointments must reflect diversity of medical workforce
The Royal College of Physicians must do more to fill voluntary roles with people from…
Covid-19: Eight day quarantine is as good as 14 for returning travellers, study finds
Quarantining people who return to the UK from the US or the EU for eight…
Covid-19: Trump is criticised for again promoting unorthodox medical information
President Donald Trump created a media storm when he retweeted a video in which Stella…
Covid-19: Government failed to protect social care during pandemic, say experts
The covid-19 pandemic has exposed longstanding failures of successive governments to ensure that the social…
Covid-19: Excess deaths point to hidden toll in South Africa as cases surge
South Africa seems close to the peak of its infection curve after an alarming month…
Covid-19 is causing the collapse of Brazil’s national health service
As the number of covid-19 cases in Brazil soars, so do concerns that the country’s…
Covid-19: Campaigners demand to see contracts for {pound}10bn track and trace services
More than 100 public figures, including public health experts, academics, journalists, and trade union leaders,…
Helen Salisbury: How will we run flu clinics in a pandemic?
In previous years, the queue for our flu vaccine clinic has been in place well…
Validation of models to diagnose ovarian cancer in patients managed surgically or conservatively: multicentre cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the performance of diagnostic prediction models for ovarian malignancy in all patients with…
Practice composition and sex differences in physician income: observational study
AbstractObjectiveTo assess whether differences in income between male and female physicians vary according to the…