Is surveillance colonoscopy necessary for all patients with bowel polyps?
What you need to knowSurveillance colonoscopy is advised in some patients who have had bowel…
Category: British Medical Journal
Political reverence towards the NHS is a smokescreen
It is the nature of politics to be fickle.1 Branded unprofessional and lacking vocation four…
Covid-19: Rest and PPE reassurance are needed before NHS services can restart, MPs hear
NHS staff are exhausted from the covid-19 pandemic and will need time to rest and…
Use of all cause mortality to quantify the consequences of covid-19 in Nembro, Lombardy: descriptive study
AbstractObjectiveTo quantify the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) on all cause mortality in Nembro,…
Risk of childhood leukaemia . . . and other stories
Childhood infections and acute lymphoblastic leukaemiaCircumstantial evidence points to early exposure to infection as a…
Covid-19: planning a future that focuses on sustainability, health, and social value
The need for international solidarity, as discussed by Kickbusch and colleagues, has never been greater.1…
Covid-19: Cases rise in Russia as health workers pay the price for PPE shortage
Russia is now the country with the second largest number of covid-19 cases, after reporting…
Life after ICU: five minutes with . . . Ron Daniels
“Like many intensivists, one of the most rewarding parts of the job for me has…
Covid-19 pandemic has derailed progress on sustainable development goals, says WHO
The rate of progress towards the United Nations’ sustainable development goals is too slow and…
BMA threatens legal action over coroner’s advice over death verification
The BMA has threatened the chief coroner of the county of Essex with legal action…
Eddie Josse: forensic and educational polymath
bmj;369/may14_8/m1913/FAF1faCredit: Craig Hibbert/ Daily Mail/SolopixEdouard “Eddie” Josse was Britain’s longest serving police surgeon until his…
Covid-19: Testing testing
Lockdown is a crude instrument. On its own it can’t eliminate covid-19, but it buys…
Integrating implementation science into covid-19 response and recovery
National and subnational responses to the covid-19 pandemic have varied in their implementation of critical…
Covid-19: The support UK care homes need to survive
On 16 March Donna Pierpoint locked down the nursing home she runs in Sheffield, in…
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Covid-19: Exposing frontline NHS staff to dangers by asking them to reuse PPE
Abbasi has aptly pointed out a few scandals around the pandemic we are facing.1 In…
Covid-19 in Pakistan and potential repercussions for the world: is the infection on the verge of endemicity?
Kickbusch and colleagues have rightly indicated that South Asian countries are important in shaping global…
Covid-19: International staff are considered vital to NHS’s efforts, survey finds
The public would support a new deal for international NHS and social care staff, a…
Covid-19: “Staggering number” of extra deaths in community is not explained by covid-19
Only a third of the excess deaths seen in the community in England and Wales…
Covid-19: Concerns rise as cases expand rapidly in South America
Scientists have warned that countries in South America should expect a rise in cases and…
Cassandra’s curse and covid-19: why do governments listen to businesses over doctors?
Pollock and colleagues recently commented on governments that ignored the World Health Organization’s advice on…
Covid-19: Return of Monday morning rush hour
bmj;369/may13_6/m1920/FAF1faFrank Augstein/AP/ShutterstockThe morning after Boris Johnson announced the easing of covid-19 lockdown restrictions in England,…
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Covid-19: The US state copying a global health template for contact tracing success
When the governor of Massachusetts announced the state’s ambitious covid-19 contract tracing programme at a…
Covid-19: Hancock is urged to make testing strategy clearer
The UK Statistics Authority has urged the government to make its data on the national…
Covid-19 contact tracing: a briefing
What is contact tracing?By finding out who has had close contact with an infected person,…
David Oliver: Covid-19 highlights the need for effective government communications
I’m writing this nine weeks after the UK’s first reported death from coronavirus. For me,…
Progression to type 2 diabetes in women with a known history of gestational diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis
AbstractObjectiveTo estimate and compare progression rates to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in women with…
Rammya Mathew: Innovation during the pandemic
Like many others, in recent weeks I’ve stepped into various clinical roles to support the…
Waste in covid-19 research
The medical research world is responding to the covid-19 pandemic at breathtaking speed. There has…
Covid-19: Pandemic exposes inequalities in global food systems
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the vulnerability and weaknesses of already fragile global food systems,…
GP who was suspended for forging out-of-hours form can resume work to assist in pandemic
A GP who was suspended for forging his supervisor’s signature when he was a trainee…
Covid-19: Government must change course or risk further wave of infections, scientists warn
The UK government must alter its current strategy for tackling covid-19 or face a further…
Removing the handle of the Broad Street pump: measures to slow the spread of covid-19 in primary care teams
John Snow removed the handle of the Broad Street pump to halt a cholera epidemic….
Supporting GPs to tackle domestic violence: five minutes with . . . Alex Sohal
“This programme is called IRIS, which stands for identification and referral to improve safety of…
Helen Salisbury: GPs still have no access to coronavirus testing
Once upon a time (two months ago), if I saw a patient with a notifiable…
Covid-19: What is the R number?
It’s been driving policy decisions since covid-19 emerged in late 2019, but what is the…
Covid-19 and decarceration
The US currently carries the ignoble distinction of being the world leader in both incarceration…
Ethics of reallocating ventilators in the covid-19 pandemic
The moral fortitude of clinicians and health systems has been tested as the number of…
Interpreting a covid-19 test result
What you need to knowInterpreting the result of a test for covid-19 depends on two…
Sixty seconds on . . . stay alert
Stay alert for what?Covid-19, of course. In a curious move, Boris Johnson’s UK government has…
Covid-19: Low skilled men have highest death rate of working age adults
Men working in the lowest skilled jobs had the highest rate of death involving covid-19…
How can I break bad news remotely?
Prepare as if you were meeting in personRachel Heard, specialty trainee year 5 in general…
Covid-19: Doctors make bid for public inquiry into lack of PPE for frontline workers
The Doctors Association UK and the Good Law Project have launched legal action to try…
How GPs can contribute to the challenge of covid-19
Before Greenhalgh and colleagues’ excellent article on assessing patients remotely for covid-19 was published,1 my…
Covid-19: Hong Kong government supplies reusable face masks to all residents
The Hong Kong government has begun to distribute reusable face masks to all residents, as…
Covid-19: Concern about social care’s ability to cope with pandemics was raised two years ago
Mounting criticism of UK ministers’ failure to prevent the spread of covid-19 through care homes…
Exit strategy to control covid-19 and relaunch the economy
In a fast expanding epidemic, after the surge is contained by physical distancing, the public…
Covid-19: England plan to ease lockdown is “confusing” and “risky,” say doctors
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s roadmap outlining how England will take its first steps out of…
Boy is set to receive millions in damages after NHS missed deliberate injuries
A 7 year old boy is set to win millions of pounds in damages from…
Ten years of Geeky Medics
Ten years ago, Lewis Potter, a medical student at the University of Newcastle, bought a…
Covid-19: GPs can’t get results of tests carried out at drive-through centres
General practices have been left without access to many thousands of covid-19 test results for…