Enrique Zapata-Bravo
Enrique Zapata became a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1987. Until 1976…
Category: British Medical Journal
George Christopher Metcalfe
bmj;382/aug04_4/p1789/FAF1faGeorge Christopher Metcalfe (“Chris”) grew up in a medical home in Bedford, including four years…
Saeed Fatima Abbas
bmj;382/aug04_3/p1787/FAF1faHaving witnessed the Partition of India and immense social upheaval in her early years, Saeed…
Karna Dev Bardhan: gastroenterologist who pioneered peptic ulcer treatments
bmj;382/aug04_2/p1807/FAF1faKarna Dev Bardhan (“Chandu”) was born in Jhansi, India, to Pramatha Nath Bardhan, a pathologist…
BMA’s GP committee elects new chair
The BMA’s General Practitioners Committee in England has elected Katie Bramall-Stainer as its chair. The…
Reacting too late: humanity’s greatest existential crisis
When existential crises come, they come not single spies but in battalions. Oppenheimer, the film…
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“Mighty Casey” Quinlan: outspoken patient activist
bmj;382/aug03_9/p1779/FAF1faCasey was notorious for having a QR code tattooed on her sternum that linked to…
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—3 August 2023
S’not what it seemsCan you tell which snotty-nosed children have acute sinusitis rather than a…
Health leaders urge prime minister to withdraw oil and gas licences
Health sector leaders in the UK have written to Rishi Sunak urging him to withdraw…
Covid-19: US agency launches raft of clinical trials of treatments for long covid
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a series of clinical trials of…
Heliotrope rash
Named after a deep purple flower, this is a heliotrope rash on the eyelids of…
The growing bottlenecks in specialty training
This month hundreds of doctors in the UK will join core (CT) or higher (ST)…
How climate change is changing dengue fever
Dengue fever is rife in India. In 2022, 230 000 infections and 303 deaths were…
Gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy? . . . and other stories
Bariatric surgeryGastric bypass is generally a better option than sleeve gastrectomy, according to a randomised…
Rising number of countries are controlling tobacco but progress is slowing, WHO warns
More than 150 countries have now implemented one or more tobacco control measures—three times the…
The proportions of term or late preterm births after exposure to early antenatal corticosteroids, and outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis of 1.6 million infants
AbstractObjectiveTo systematically review the proportions of infants with early exposure to antenatal corticosteroids but born…
Menopausal hormone therapy and dementia: causal link remains uncertain rather than unlikely
The results of our nationwide nested case-control study of menopausal hormone therapy and the risk…
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New licenses for oil and gas drilling will exacerbate climate crisis—an open letter to the PM
Dear prime minister,We write to you as an alliance of health leaders who are deeply…
Cuts to UK’s foreign aid will lead to thousands of deaths, assessment warns
Thousands of women will die in pregnancy and childbirth and hundreds of thousands more will…
Academic hierarchies are an uphill struggle for black women
The academic landscape in the United States, much like in other parts of the world,…
Medical journals unite in call to eliminate nuclear weapons
More than 100 medical journals, including The BMJ and the Lancet, have issued an urgent…
Physician associates in the media spotlight: what’s the latest on the role?
Why have physician associates been in the news?Concerns about the care of a 30 year…
Situational Judgement Test
I agree with Nabavi that the Situational Judgement Test (SJT) is an exam with potentially…
The current foundation programme allocation system impedes student development
As a penultimate year medical student and part of the 2024 cohort, it was a…
Why we need to ask less of medical students
I was extremely moved by Politis and Hodkinson’s article.1 The pressure described in it resonates…
Scarlett McNally: Let’s focus on tertiary prevention and perioperative care
We’ve known for millennia that prevention is better than cure. An excellent new report, A…
Build healthy habits to counteract burnout
As a public health student, I’ve spent a lot of time speaking about healthcare worker…
HIV prevention with postexposure prophylaxis-in-pocket (PIP)
What you need to knowPostexposure prophylaxis-in-pocket (PIP) is an HIV prevention strategy that may be…
Coroner criticises prison and trust over death of baby born without medical assistance
Serious operational and systemic failures contributed to the death of an 18 year old prisoner’s…
Call for more reusable items in intensive care gives me deȷa vu
Baid and colleagues’ article on reducing the carbon footprint of critical care is interesting and…
Obesity: How long should drug treatment last?
Injectable appetite suppressant drugs should be considered a lifelong treatment for obesity rather than a…
Organisational change needed to move towards net zero for asthma care
Smith and colleagues have provided a comprehensive but, one could argue, reductionist review of moving…
Exclusive: GP leaders advise practices not to prescribe cholesterol lowering drug inclisiran
Local GP leaders across the south of England have told practices not to follow the…
Study results show vitamin D is around 99% ineffective in preventing major cardiovascular events
In their study of vitamin D supplementation and major cardiovascular events, Thompson and colleagues state,…
There is no evidence that vitamin D prevents cardiovascular events
The trial by Thompson and colleagues of the effect of vitamin D supplementation on major…
Why I . . . make pottery
For Charlotte Lindsay, making beautiful pottery is not about perfection. In fact, it’s the imperfect…
Rammya Mathew: The fight to retain GPs must start today
The Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme was introduced in 2019 to help expand the general practice…
US doctors are told to look for emerging, potentially life threatening allergic tickborne disease
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has told US doctors to be alert…
Editor’s Choice—going your own way
In medicine, change is in the air. For UK medical students, the removal of the…
Helen Salisbury: Continuing disquiet on the data front
People talk to their doctors in confidence, expecting the details they share about their weight,…
Trusts should review policies for handling sexual assault and harassment of staff and patients, NHS England says
NHS trusts and integrated care boards have been told by NHS England to review their…
Does the UK need a new minister for population health?
“We know what works,” concludes a report into improving the UK’s national health over the…
Leaning into the digital age: the role of TikTok and other technologies in providing mental health information
A quick search of “ADHD” on TikTok produces several videos generated by non-clinicians that describe…
Why is nitroglycerin in short supply in Canada?
Patients with coronary artery disease in Canada have been facing months of shortages of the…
Covid-19: Leaked cremation data hint at true scale of China’s death rate
Cremation figures released and then quickly withdrawn by authorities in China’s Zhejiang province appear to…
Re-evaluating national screening for chronic kidney disease in the UK
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity that is often…
When I use a word . . . Coroners’ duties: enquiry and prevention
CoronersThe office of coroner in England dates from the end of the 12th century,1 having…
Herbert Christopher Dharmasiri
bmj;382/jul28_9/p1742/FAF1faChristopher Dharmasiri was one of seven siblings growing up in rural Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, and…
Simon Nicholas Marshall
bmj;382/jul28_8/p1735/FAF1faSimon Nicholas Marshall initially obtained a degree in biomedical sciences from Queen Mary and Westfield…
James David Bradshaw
bmj;382/jul28_7/p1733/FAF1faJames David Bradshaw trained in Manchester, specialising initially in respiratory medicine, before retraining in oncology…