Cities and global health: fragmented housing policies increase health risks for vulnerable people
The association of housing with health was recorded scientifically over 170 years ago, and housing…
Category: British Medical Journal
Amber Elizabeth Young
bmj;379/nov01_9/o2618/FAF1faAmber Elizabeth Young was the eldest of three children born to Patricia, a nurse, and…
Beresford Roger Melville Crook
bmj;379/nov01_8/o2616/FAF1faBeresford Roger Melville Crook (“Berry”) trained as a cardiologist in several London hospitals and carried…
Prioritise retaining trainee doctors before creating medical school places
There is no doubt that doubling the number of medical school places could have a…
Social media, self-harm, and suicide: we should be promoting research informed decision making about how and what to regulate
Numerous summaries of the findings of the Molly Russell inquest conclude that the case is…
Neville Davis: GP who pushed for clinical forensic medicine as a separate medical specialty
bmj;379/nov01_5/o2611/FAF1faWhen Neville Davis wanted to study law in 1939, his headmaster advised: “You may have…
Clinical and cost effectiveness of single stage compared with two stage revision for hip prosthetic joint infection (INFORM): pragmatic, parallel group, open label, randomised controlled trial
AbstractObjectivesTo determine whether patient reported outcomes improve after single stage versus two stage revision surgery…
Gender change: Scotland moves closer to simplifying process
Legislation that would allow people to change their gender by self declaration without the need…
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Sixty seconds on . . . bad dreams
Is this a Halloween thing?No, although it does involve nightmares.You mean like getting a new…
Hidradenitis suppurativa
What you need to knowAsk about recurrent patterns and typical sites of boil outbreaks to…
Edward Allen Martin
bmj;379/oct28_10/o2596/FAF1faEdward Allen Martin (“Eddie”) did postgraduate work at the Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and Maida Vale…
We need affordable homes for healthy, happy lives
The recent turmoil in UK politics has done little to ease the anxiety felt by…
Efforts to limit global heating to 1.5{degrees}C are “well off track,” analysts warn
Experts are warning that delays to planned climate action are hampering efforts to achieve numerous…
Anti-GP narrative is receding but government remains uninterested in crisis, warns GP leader
The head of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has defended going public about…
The NHS fails to care for its own employees
Oliver’s article on the realities of being a junior doctor is refreshingly honest and summarises…
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Inequalities among staff harmed by patient safety incidents should also be tackled
Attention has been drawn to viewing health inequalities through the lens of patient safety.1 This…
Redefining the professional identity of the surgeon
The study conducted by Okoshi and colleagues1 supports the claim that female surgeons can achieve…
GPs express concerns about the quality and safety of their services with current resources
GPs are concerned about the quality and safety of the services they are currently providing…
Donald Stewart McLaren
bmj;379/oct27_10/o2562/FAF1faDonald Stewart McLaren (“Don”) was one of a group of pioneers in the area of…
William Fairbank Doe
bmj;379/oct27_9/o2566/FAF1faWilliam Fairbank Doe (“Bill”), an academic gastroenterologist, professor of medicine at Sydney University, dean of…
Minou Dokht Foadi
bmj;379/oct27_8/o2555/FAF1faMinou Dokht Foadi was born in Tehran, Iran, to Hasan Foadi, a linguist and teacher,…
Leslie Harold Blumgart
bmj;379/oct27_7/o2558/FAF1faLeslie H Blumgart (“Les”), one of the world leaders in hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery, was a…
Health and climate crises will shape Sunak’s legacy
The UK has its first prime minister of Sotonian origin. It matters little who you…
Rotherham trust is fined {pound}200 000 for failing to take safeguarding action in the case of four babies
Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £200 000 (€230 000; $232 000) after admitting…
Home and Online Management and Evaluation of Blood Pressure (HOME BP) using a digital intervention in poorly controlled hypertension: randomised controlled trial
In this paper by McManus and colleagues (BMJ 2021;372:m4858, doi:10.1136/bmj.m4858, published 20 January 2021), the…
Helen Lightbody Kirkwood
bmj;379/oct27_12/o2561/FAF1faHelen Lightbody Kirkwood (née Steven) was born in Bargeddie, Lanarkshire, and was the first person…
Philip Owen Nicholas
bmj;379/oct27_11/o2564/FAF1faMy father, Philip Owen Nicholas, was born in Gloucester. He was the younger of two…
Has covid-19 become milder?
Is covid-19 really getting milder?The short answer is no. Covid-19 is still a deadly disease,…
The future of general practice in England
No one who works in general practice, and few patients attempting to access care, would…
An acutely painful hot swollen knee
A woman in her 90s presented to the emergency department with shortness of breath, fever,…
Blood pressure and the J shaped curve . . . and other stories
Systolic blood pressureA meta-analysis of a vast amount of data from randomised controlled trials and…
Comparative risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome or thromboembolic events associated with different covid-19 vaccines: international network cohort study from five European countries and the US
AbstractObjectiveTo quantify the comparative risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome or thromboembolic events associated with…
Reducing routine inpatient blood testing
What you need to knowRoutine, repetitive laboratory testing for hospital inpatients who are clinically and…
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—27 October 2022
Genital herpes: a sore subjectI was taught that herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) causes…
Wealth as a determinant of brain health
Farina and colleagues’ recent editorial argues that “public health messaging should promote brain health as…
Activists demand more funds for ME research
bmj;379/oct26_1/o2548/FAF1faTakenbyTaraDemonstrators in London’s Parliament Square last week called for hundreds of millions of pounds missing…
Helen Salisbury: Would GMC proposals prop up or undermine general practice?
Before 1979, being a GP required no postgraduate training. After completing medical school and a…
AI technologies: guidelines set out training requirements for NHS staff
All health and care staff will receive training in how to use artificial intelligence (AI)…
Rachel Clarke: Ukraine—how do you live in the face of death?
For her first six months of work as a doctor in the small Ukrainian town…
Impact of a package of health, nutrition, psychosocial support, and WaSH interventions delivered during preconception, pregnancy, and early childhood periods on birth outcomes and on linear growth at 24 months of age: factorial, individually randomised controlled trial
AbstractObjectiveTo determine the effect of integrated and concurrent delivery of health, nutrition, water, sanitation and…
A lethal staghorn
This is a left renal squamous cell carcinoma arising from a staghorn calculus in a…
My top BMJ Student picks—shake it out
Starting work at the BMJ as the new editorial scholar has been incredibly exciting.1 Picking…
Scarlett McNally: Exercise can do wonders for social care
We need urgent radical solutions for the crisis in social care, to prevent the collapse…
Continuous glucose monitoring for adults and children with diabetes: summary of updated NICE guidance
What you need to knowThe guideline update recommends real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and intermittently…
WHO offers a prescription for tackling the health workforce crisis, but will the UK take the medicine?
Governments across Europe must act now to tackle a crisis in the health workforce. That…
FDA urged to publish follow-up studies on covid-19 vaccine safety signals
In July 2021 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly disclosed findings of a…
GP who repeatedly asked woman to remove her veil and lied about her complaint is suspended
A GP who pressed the mother of a child patient to remove her veil during…
A&E: Move patients to wards regardless of bed capacity, to spread risk, says royal college
A “continuous flow model” of care whereby patients are transferred from the emergency department into…
Sharp Scratch episode 83: students, sex work, and stigma
Sharp Scratch episode summaries are back. And we’ve chosen a big topic for this episode:…
Doctor faces new charges of wrongfully practising as a GP after GMC wins appeal
A doctor who was cleared by a medical practitioners tribunal of any misconduct is facing…