How to solve the workforce crisis: listen to what health professionals want from their careers
How is the medical profession faring in terms of gender balance?The workforce as a whole…
Category: British Medical Journal
Update to living systematic review on SARS-CoV-2 positivity in offspring and timing of mother-to-child transmission
This living systematic review by Allotey and colleagues (BMJ 2024; 384:067696) has been updated. For the…
NICE decisions must reflect societal values in relevant and contemporary policies
Michaels summarises the problems facing organisations developing guidelines.1 The National Institute for Health and Care…
Junior doctors’ strike: Health secretary urges BMA to “show it is serious” about pay deal
The health and social care secretary, Victoria Atkins, has called on BMA officials to spell…
Author’s reply to Sundar
Sundar is correct in stating that in a taxpayer funded system the National Institute for…
Code sharing and artificial intelligence can help decolonise public health modelling
Steps towards democratisation of efforts in global health and capacity strengthening in low and middle…
Improving the transparency and reliability of observational studies through registration
From the use of booster doses against covid-191 to approval of novel cancer therapies,2 health…
Helen Salisbury: Other presences in the consulting room
It isn’t unusual for a third person to be in the room when I’m consulting….
Rammya Mathew: We risk creating a lost tribe of GPs
For the past 10 years the general practice workforce has been flooded with locum GPs….
US states want to buy cheap drugs from Canada—and the FDA says yes after three year delay
On 5 January the US Food and Drug Administration approved Florida’s plan to import drugs…
Why learning how to swallow pills is good for patients, parents, and the planet
What you need to knowPills are likely to have a reduced environmental impact compared with…
Perinatal depression and its health impact
What is perinatal depression?Perinatal depression is considered a specifier of major depressive disorder with onset…
Gaza: WHO describes “sickening scenes” in hospital as Israeli military intensifies activity
The World Health Organization has described the harrowing scenes unfolding at Al Aqsa Hospital—the only…
Should the NHS pay AI’s PubMed bill?
Stokel-Walker mentions a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in which…
UK shows what not to do to tackle health inequalities, says Marmot
More than a million people outside the wealthiest areas of England lived shorter lives than…
NICE cannot always allow healthcare professionals to prescribe the best available treatment
Every patient wants the best available treatment. In self-funded systems and insurance based health systems,…
NICE guidance: opportunity cost of clinician time needs to be quantified
Michaels is right to refer to the opportunity cost of funding expensive treatments.1 There is,…
Evaluation of clinical prediction models (part 1): from development to external validation
Healthcare decisions for individuals are routinely made on the basis of risk or probability.1 Whether…
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When I use a word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2024
Medical anniversaries in 2024For the past eight years I have been charting medical anniversaries year…
Sixty seconds on . . . green space
New year, new meIt’s that time of the year again—and according to Forbes magazine doing…
Junior doctors’ strike: NHS England to gather information on service impact
NHS England has said it will gather information on whether refusals by the BMA to…
GLP-1 agonist shortage will last until end of 2024, government warns
The supply of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists is not expected to return to normal…
Covid-19: Some US states and hospitals recommend masks again
US hospitals and medical centres in some US states have reintroduced requirements to wear facemasks…
NHS England and trusts are undermining process for recalling striking doctors, says BMA
NHS England and some NHS trusts are undermining the process for recalling striking junior doctors…
How we can solve the crisis in UK gambling policy
We are at a perilous moment in the regulation of gambling in the UK. We…
Growing interest in Korean “postnatal retreats” highlights dearth in maternal care in North America
Over the past 10 years, Hyesook Jeon and her husband Michael have shared their time…
Efficacy and safety of tranexamic acid in acute haemorrhage
What you need to knowTranexamic acid is a synthetic haemostatic drug that inhibits fibrinolysisIt is…
NHS England’s “celebratory” cancer check announcement does not reflect reality, charities say
NHS England’s announcement highlighting record numbers of cancer checks does not reflect the “brutal” reality…
WHO announces committee for guidance on adult trans health
The World Health Organization has announced the members of the committee that will develop a…
A continuum of perfect storms: the winter forecast for urgent care in the NHS remains bleak
The NHS remains under immense pressure.1 Each part of the system is experiencing demand beyond…
The NHS should focus on doing the basics first
Some aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) will clearly come to influence our clinical work, perhaps…
Antimicrobial resistance: MPs call on UK government to maximise potential of bacteriophages
MPs have called on the UK government to invest in research into bacteriophages as an…
The use of wastewater based epidemiology to detect synthetic opioids in the community
Eastwood and Schlossenberg highlight the need to monitor and respond to the influx of nitazene…
December top picks: festive season at The BMJ
Hi Barbie. It turns out that working at The BMJ at Christmas time is really…
The doctors’ doctor: the occupational health consultant
During times of intense work pressure, understanding just how hard practising medicine can be is…
The greying rainbow: We need inclusive care for older LGBTQ+ people
One morning I was sitting in with a GP in a small practice. An older…
Applying global lessons to protect abortion access in the United States
Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, eliminating the federal constitutional…
Junior doctors in England call for credible pay offer to end strikes
The BMA has called for the health and social care secretary, Victoria Atkins, to make…
Illegal drugs in the UK—we need better screening and surveillance
We agree with the concerns raised by Eastwood and Schlossenberg about the changing drug landscape…
Illicit drug threats, old and new
We commend the suggestions by Eastwood and Schlossenberg around expanding supervised consumption facilities and drug…
How patriarchy and conservatism fuel deadly hesitancy among women with breast cancer
Khoula Mahroof, 43, was barely five months into her marriage when she identified a lump…
Chronic pain: supported self-management
What you need to knowSupported self-management is an approach to chronic pain that involves shared…
UK’s National Screening Committee endorses digital pathology for cancer screening
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has backed the use of digital pathology as…
Intersectionality in health equity research
The covid-19 pandemic highlighted deep rooted societal inequities and their causes because of its disproportionate…
RSV jab reduced infant hospital admissions by 83%, study reports
The long acting monoclonal antibody nirsevimab (marketed as Beyfortus) reduced respiratory syncytial virus associated hospital…
Authors’ reply to Datta
Datta mentions the association between race or ethnicity and obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASI).12 Several…
Nearly 89 000 appointments in England were lost during ȷunior doctors’ strike in December
Almost 89 000 appointments and procedures were postponed in England because of the latest three…
Understanding injuries during assisted delivery
Muraca and colleagues discuss the important topic of trauma to mother and baby during operative…
Adverse events were higher at US hospitals taken over by private equity firms, study finds
Hospital acquired adverse events such as falls, central line blood infections, and surgical site infections…
Combining high quality data with rigorous methods: emulation of a target trial using electronic health records and a nested case-control design
Summary pointsCase-control studies are efficient designs for studies that require validation of key variables; data…