Category: COVID-19

Talic and colleagues’ systematic review and meta-analysis assessed many public health measures for reducing covid-19…

Some 800 000 Americans have died from covid-19, the highest number of any country in…

People admitted to hospital with covid-19 who reported “long covid” symptoms five months after discharge…

The pressures on doctors generated by the covid-19 pandemic have worsened during 2021 and this…

Several healthcare organisations in Malaga, Spain, have cancelled all Christmas social events after nearly 100…

Abbasi cautions against reliance on consensus based clinical guidelines and he questions consensus led views…

Has omicron increased the need for boosters?Booster doses of covid-19 vaccines have been rolled out…

What mutations does omicron have?Omicron’s spike protein has at least 30 amino acid substitutions, three…

The US drug regulator has granted emergency use authorisation to a combination of two monoclonal…

“I’m just very stubborn,” smiles consultant doctor and transparency campaigner Moosa Qureshi. His mood reflects…

Sokol is right about mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers.1 As well as our professional ethical…

At the start of the covid-19 pandemic a small US drug company found itself in…

Be in a trial, I tweeted. Trials are great, I said on the radio. But…

Sokol’s main argument for mandatory covid-19 vaccination of healthcare workers is that vaccination of patient…

Civil society organisations have a critical role in a democracy, holding governments to account for…

A tribunal made an “error of law” when it restrained a GP accused of spreading…

No amount of positive spin can detract from the numbers. The UK has not done…

A House of Lords committee has raised several concerns about the proposed legislation to make…

Lessons learnt in relation to increasing uptake of the covid-19 vaccine among ethnic minority groups…

As a GP, I completely agree with Salisbury’s article.1 We are currently seeing many patients…

The UK’s medicines regulator has approved a second monoclonal antibody, sotrovimab, for the treatment of…

World Health Organization states agreed on 1 December to begin negotiating an international agreement on…

The world was not prepared for this pandemic. While countries affected by severe acute respiratory…

General practice will require extra staff and capacity to offer covid-19 booster vaccines to everyone…

China brought the first outbreak of covid-19 under control in March 2020. The response to…

Scientific understanding about the epidemiology, genetics, and continuing evolution of covid-19 has been transformed since…

The combination of high transmissibility and moderate severity made SARS-CoV-2 a perfect pathogen for a…

The UK government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic was “grossly negligent” and amounted to misconduct…

The behaviour of Ventavia in relation to Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine1 is serious and demands a…

President Joe Biden told Americans that the newly identified omicron variant of the covid-19 virus…

In the first half of 2020, Europe, the US, and UK experienced a chronic shortage…

I agree with Sherman and colleagues that “health professionals should encourage change through individual practice,…

Omicron, the SARS-CoV-2 variant responsible for a cluster of cases in South Africa and that…

The world is finally coming to terms with the realisation that transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is…

bmj;375/nov24_7/n2875/FAF1faNelson Owoicho/Water AidSanitation workers such as Iliyasu Abbas (pictured), a pit latrine and septic tank…

AbstractObjectiveTo determine whether positive expiratory pressure (PEP) by PEP flute self-care is effective in reducing…

The next decade will “see a revolution in mRNA therapeutics,” says Paul Burton, chief medical…

In September, UK health secretary Sajid Javid said that the country’s medicines regulator would not…

We read The BMJ’s article on whether the Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Independent…

Leading US ethicists have warned that doctors will revolt if the drug regulator authorises an…

Americans are endangered by misinformation about the covid-19 pandemic and promotion of false treatments on…

Ten Conservative MPs and peers referred companies through the government’s “VIP lane” for personal protective…

The NHS in England is preparing to offer an annual covid-19 booster vaccine programme if…

When the World Health Organization flagged the danger of fake covid-19 vaccines in August,1 Mumbai…

A Minnesota doctor who grew an online following spreading misinformation about covid-19 has died from…

What’s Sesame Street’s yellow bird in flap about?According to his official Twitter account Big Bird…

Workplace violence in the healthcare sector is increasingly being acknowledged worldwide as a serious occupational…

South Asia, home to 1.97 billion people (25% of the world’s population), is no stranger…

NHS hospitals across the UK are creating extra bed capacity to relieve ongoing operational pressures…

bmj;375/nov11_7/n2732/FAF1faPercentage of national population to have received two doses of covid vaccineA year since the…