Category: British Medical Journal

Cholera is highly predictable, with flare-ups in endemic areas at specific times of the year…

What’s this about?Celebrities, including Kim Kardashian1 and Paris Hilton,2 have been promoting scans offered by…

Many healthcare systems are facing crises of excess demand, increased prevalence of chronic disease, spiralling…

The silly seasonWe are in the middle of what is called, or at least used…

Artificial intelligence technologies can be used to help reduce the time it takes to plan…

bmj;382/aug11_6/p1843/FAF1faMubarak Ahmad Chaudhry (“Mobi”) was born in London in 1965. As a young boy he…

bmj;382/aug11_5/p1849/FAF1faDerek Reginald Gander was born in Shanghai, China. He attended the Cathedral School in the…

bmj;382/aug11_4/p1841/FAF1faMahendra Shantikumar Bhatia was a well known and popular GP in Rothwell, a suburb in…

The NHS has been under severe pressure for many years, exacerbated by substantial gaps in…

Medical students were once able to devote their time to becoming apprentices on the hospital…

The latest four day walkout by junior doctors in England began on Friday 11 August…

There are more than 15 million people with a long term condition in England alone.1…

The moment of transition from medical student to doctor is an experience that remains with…

A woman died after multiple failings in a hospital trust’s monitoring and treatment of her…

There have been two landmarks in 2023 for the polypill: one momentous, the other sobering….

bmj;382/aug10_5/p1850/FAF1faClaudio Salmoiraghi was born at 7 months in a small countryside village in the north…

The synthetic trachea transplantations performed at the Karolinska Hospital1 were undertaken under “compassionate use.” The…

“We need to recognise that we’re in a crisis.” Alika Lafontaine is president of the…

The number of babies and infants subject to care proceedings in the UK is growing,1…

Baid and colleagues state that energy consumption is the most important contributor to greenhouse gas…

The Sudan conflict is severely affecting paediatric healthcare, creating a humanitarian crisis. The ongoing war…

Later this year Australians will vote in a referendum on whether the constitution should be…

Moberly reports that more doctors are opting to retire early rather than wait to claim…

When 46 year old Eli Mazur injured his head after a fall, he rushed to…

What you need to knowAsymptomatic bacteriuria is a positive result from a urine culture test…

bmj;382/aug08_7/p1832/FAF1faThe small palliative care team that oncologist Thelma Bates set up in 1977 in St…

Consultants in England have announced plans to take two further days of strike next month,…

bmj;382/aug08_4/p1825/FAF1faAs an anaesthetist, chair of the BMA representative body, and privately, Anthea Mowat was a…

People in Pakistan continue to suffer one year after the disastrous flooding of July 2022….

September’s United Nations General Assembly has the potential to deliver historic progress in the drive…

In their 2021 review of treating opioid use disorder in primary care, Buresh and colleagues…

I was disappointed to see the complacency of the head of quality, diversity, and inclusion…

In 2022, weeks after Russia re-invaded Ukraine, we warned of the risk to food supplies…

An extra 13 community diagnostic centres are to join the existing 114 already in operation…

Preventing future deathsAs I have previously described,1 Rule 43 of the Coroners Rules 1984, titled…

bmj;382/aug04_7/p1790/FAF1faRanjit Singh Sumra was born in Kanpur, India. After graduating he trained in neurology at…

bmj;382/aug04_6/p1792/FAF1faEllen Grant began her lifetime study of the serious side effects of contraceptive hormones at…