Category: British Medical Journal

This year has seen wildfires, flash flooding, and the warmest month on record,1 a likely…

How did we arrive at the position where we devote so many resources to healthcare…

The health sector has an important role in protecting human and planetary health by reducing…

The death of 13 year old Martha Mills in 2021 from sepsis complicating pancreatic trauma…

Surgery is a major medical contributor to the United Kingdom’s carbon emissions. Progress is being…

bmj;382/sep29_10/p2225/FAF1faGeoffrey Mottram Durbin (“Geoff”) was born into a family steeped in socialism. His mother studied…

Hundreds of young doctors from across Italy staged a protest in Rome this week to…

Abbasi and colleagues remind the medical community of the humanitarian, ecological, and radiological dangers of…

The UK has experienced a rise in net migration over recent years, with 606 000…

A group of six young Portuguese nationals have taken 33 countries, including the UK, to…

Proposed new controls on the price of branded drugs to the NHS should strike the…

The UK is one of the world’s most nature depleted countries and at the current…

The General Medical Council’s (GMC) Good Medical Practice sets out the standards required of doctors…

We agree with Idler and colleagues’ analysis on the influence of religion on health.1 We…

Gender inequalities significantly worsen women’s access to cancer prevention, care, and treatment, say health experts…

Goodnight for overnight appendicectomyHow long should people with appendicitis wait before going to theatre? 1822…

Fruity slaw?Not quite. Friluftsliv is a Norwegian word that roughly translates as outdoor life, which…

Jain and colleagues explore screening for use of SGLT2 inhibitors to ameliorate the emergence of…

I read with interest Jain and colleagues’ consideration of a screening programme for chronic kidney…

A man in his 30s presented with a three month history of an unusual odour…

What you need to knowHealthcare systems are major emitters of greenhouse gases, but also have…

Outcomes of cerebellar strokeData from 500 patients presenting with ischaemic cerebellar stroke to neurological centres…

Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) can be used as an alternative to bariatric surgery to help…

For every £100 spent in the community care sector there is a 31% return on…

Polypharmacy is prevalent among older adults aged ≥65 years and often leads to unintended clinical…

Overview of case crossover designThe case crossover study is a self-controlled, outcome anchored design to…

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the association between recently raised anticholinergic burden and risk of acute cardiovascular events…

In this episode of Sharp Scratch, we talk all about doctor self-disclosure with an emphasis…

GPs are seeing a “worrying” rise in the number of patients presenting with problems associated…

Doctors in the US have been advised to avoid engaging in fundraising with their patients…

More than a million NHS hospital appointments have now been postponed this year in England…

bmj;382/sep26_4/p2219/FAF1faMark ThomasIn their first joint industrial action, consultants and junior doctors in England began a…

Put yourself firstBecky Cox, co-founder of Surviving in Scrubs, says, “There is no right or…

Few phrases are better known than “prevention is better than cure,” and its message seems…

Delegates met last week at the United Nations high level meeting on universal health coverage…

Salisbury outlines the problems around data sharing in the NHS.1 When I was a Caldicott…

I share the concerns expressed by Salisbury about the poor track record of large NHS…