Cochrane UK: NHS pulls support
The UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has decided to end its…
Category: British Medical Journal
Sixty seconds on . . . hot summers
Chance would be a fine thingI know July has been pretty wet in the UK,…
US gynaecologist who sexually abused hundreds of patients is sentenced to 20 years in jail
New York gynaecologist Robert Hadden, 64, who sexually abused hundreds of patients over decades at…
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Health workers are in a unique position to help identify human trafficking
Human trafficking is a lucrative crime and a serious human rights violation. Conflicts increase the…
How to reduce medications for people with multiple long term conditions
The studyReeve J, Maden M, Hill R, et al. Deprescribing medicines in older people living…
Hospital appointments: Last minute cancellation widens health inequalities, watchdog warns
Repeated or last minute cancellations of planned NHS appointments are having a catastrophic effect on…
Alarming decline in vaccine update must be tackled, say MPs
The UK’s status as a global leader on vaccination is at risk because of falling…
Bone resorption caused by systemic sclerosis
This woman in her 60s presented with a history of a progressively receding chin over…
Jean Kaseya: New head of Africa CDC faces uphill struggle in post-pandemic era
When the covid pandemic began in 2020, Jean Kaseya was in Italy witnessing how the…
Forearm injury in a young boy
A 9 year old boy presented to the emergency department after a fall onto his…
Phenotypes, cardiovascular disease . . . and other stories
Genome-wide association studies of cardiovascular diseaseAccording to the NHGRI-EBI catalogue of human genome-wide association studies…
Gordon McInnes: professor of clinical pharmacology, past president of the British Hypertension Society, and key figure in cardiovascular research
bmj;382/jul26_17/p1728/FAF1faKnown as “Big Gordon” by colleagues—not least on account of his stature (he was 2…
Strike action: Junior doctors in England announce fifth walkout in August
Junior doctors in England will take further strike action in August, as their dispute with…
Potent synthetic opioids are linked to rise in heroin overdoses and deaths in England
A group of potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes have been linked to a rise in…
Authors’ reply to Braithwaite
We agree with Braithwaite1 that cardiovascular events are usually acutely defined and generally have an…
Risk of diabetes with statins: comparing apples with oranges
Mansi and colleagues appropriately advocate for shared decision making when considering statins for secondary prevention…
Israel: Doctors strike to protest against judicial overhaul
Doctors in Israel have joined mass protests against moves by the government to radically overhaul…
Government reȷects MPs’ calls to restore doctor-patient relationship to heart of general practice
Various steps recommended by MPs last year to improve the doctor-patient relationship in general practice…
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Healthcare workers must be included in long covid research in the UK
Patient and public involvement in research into long covid is key to understanding the condition’s…
David Oliver: NHS England targets for new and follow-up outpatient appointments are ill conceived
In February 2022 NHS England published its Delivery Plan for Tackling the Covid-19 Backlog of…
In praise of civility among clinicians
There’s currently no shortage of controversies in medicine, with repeated strikes by doctors and proposals…
Managing raised ferritin in primary care
What you need to knowRaised levels of ferritin can be associated with several serious underlying…
John Launer: Are medical humanities useful?
Several times a year I run sessions for GP training schemes or other groups of…
What is my risk, doctor? Patients should be told risks of untreated disease and side effects of treatment
Bretthauer and Kalager have a point in arguing that absolute disease risk and absolute treatment…
Reflections on the NHS at 75: postgraduate training is the problem
Feature, 1 JulyReflecting on the NHS at 75, Kumar concludes that we should simplify medical…
Don’t assume that cutting back on cancer diagnosis would improve other services
Cancer is the UK’s leading cause of death,1 and, as Mathew notes, the UK’s record…
Cancer care has not caused waiting lists to mushroom
The NHS is under extreme pressure. We agree with Mathew that poor access to general…
The NHS at 75: let’s stand up for regaining and retaining NHS principles
The reflections on how the NHS will need to adapt to survive the next 75…
The NHS at 75: the current crisis is not unintended
Salisbury quotes Nye Bevan: “No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person…
The NHS at 75: income inequality is the main driver of poor health
Dixon and Alderwick’s editorial on the NHS at 75 was full of relevant and pithy…
How trusts can deliver inclusive recovery across the NHS
The covid-19 pandemic has had a severe and lasting impact on our health. The newly…
Private hospitals and consultants are threatened with legal action over poor data compliance
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given a warning to private hospitals and consultants…
Helen Salisbury: What happened to the video revolution?
Four years ago, we knew that video consulting existed but saw no role for it…
Partha Kar: The “Hadley initiative” could improve healthcare for NHS staff
It’s fascinating to see how much time we spend writing about looking after the NHS…
Government pledge to end paper prescribing is rated inadequate by review panel
The UK government has failed to meet a key target to eliminate paper prescribing in…
Raising up trainees: the consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon
Empowering younger doctors is central to why consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon Usman Ahmed has…
Consent consensus: time for national standard consent forms as an aid to robust consent
Informed consent in the medical context is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as “permission from…
Life expectancy of minority ethnic learning disabled people is half that of white counterparts
People with a learning disability from a minority ethnic background have a life expectancy of…
One in five adults in England will be living with a major disease by 2040, finds report
More than nine million adults in England will be living with major illness by 2040—equivalent…
Use and misuse of research: Canada’s response to covid-19 and its health inequalities
Canada had one of the lowest rates of covid-19 cases and deaths per population than…
Valerie Cowie: influential psychiatrist and geneticist
bmj;382/jul24_5/p1705/FAF1faThe English language is an unforgiving battlefield where many doctors fall. Valerie Cowie, who had…
Stanford president resigns over problems in 12 research papers
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of Stanford University in California, has announced that he was stepping down…
Sixty seconds on . . . meat
I don’t touch the stuffWell good for you because research published in Nature Food1 says…
US ends funding for China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on 17 July that it…
Atopic eczema in under 12s: diagnosis and management—summary of updated NICE guidance
What you need to knowDo not offer emollient bath additives to children under 12 years…
Strike action: Doctors’ leader tells consultants “we will win this fight”
On the first day of their two day strike on 20 and 21 July, consultants…
UK clinics told to stop prescribing antidiabetes drugs for weight loss, after shortages
The UK government has urged healthcare providers to stop prescribing appetite suppressant drugs for weight…
Roger Buckley
bmj;382/jul21_8/p1679/FAF1faRoger Buckley’s first ophthalmology appointment was as house surgeon at St Thomas’ before becoming registrar…
Martin Parry
bmj;382/jul21_7/p1681/FAF1faFor over 60 years, Martin Parry lived and worked in and around Holywell, north Wales….
J D Milne
bmj;382/jul21_6/p1680/FAF1faDorothy Milne (“J D Milne”) was born in Glasgow, grew up in Aberdeen, and attended…