AbstractObjectivesTo derive and validate risk prediction algorithms (QCOVID4) to estimate the risk of covid-19 related…
bmj;381/jun20_13/p1421/FAF1fahausen160623.f1Credit: Thomas Lohnes/DDP/AFP/Getty ImagesIn 1842 an Italian physician in Florence observed that married women were…
Mendelian randomisation (MR) can be implemented as an instrumental variable analysis, with genetic variants as…
Patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 were more likely to die if they also had…
Antigenic variation in the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant and subvariants are substantial compared with previous variants…
AbstractObjectivesTo determine the association between covid-19 vaccination types and doses with adverse outcomes of severe…
Never before had humanity seen such a swift, concerted response to the emergence of a…
The UK National Screening Committee is due to review its advice on prostate cancer screening…
The World Health Organization has declared that covid-19 is no longer a “global health emergency”…
AbstractObjectiveTo examine whether treatment with the antiviral agent molnupiravir during the first five days of…
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WASHINGTON — Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel and Senate health committee Chair Bernie Sanders shook hands…
Three years after news of the first cases of Covid-19 infections and deaths began to…
The UK’s all cause mortality was 3.1% above average during the covid-19 pandemic compared with…
The NHS received one of the highest weekly numbers of 111 calls last week as…
Covid-19 may have dealt a “lasting adverse hit” to NHS performance rather than a short…
The NHS in England significantly underestimated the continuing impact of covid-19 on hospital bed capacity…
AbstractObjectiveTo estimate the effectiveness of a two dose vaccine schedule (mRNA-1273, BNT162b2, and BBIBP-CorV) against…
bmj;379/nov29_12/o2882/FAF1faDon ArnoldThousands of people posed naked on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, at sunrise last…
Key messagesResearch on the political and commercial determinants of health points to the importance of…
The World Health Organization and the government of Uganda plan to test three candidate Ebola…
Rishi Sunak’s actions during the covid-19 pandemic tell us a great deal about his attitudes…
bmj;379/nov15_13/o2743/FAF1faKevin Frayer/Getty ImagesEpidemic control workers in Beijing take shelter during China’s largest annual online shopping…
A funding gap of around ₤10.5bn (€12bn; $12.4bn) for pandemic preparedness in developing countries has…
The pandemic, for a moment, wobbled the foundations of the drug industry, with calls to…
The health of the population in England declined in 2020 during the early stages of…
We thank Upton for his comments1 on our article.2We agree that the Joint Committee on…
The antibody drug Evusheld is effective for protecting clinically extremely vulnerable people from covid-19, including…
The former French health minister Agnès Buzyn should not have been charged with putting the…
The US is now in a flu epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control…
Key messagesEffective response to the pandemic required real time use of research knowledgeSome existing infrastructures…
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Is covid-19 really getting milder?The short answer is no. Covid-19 is still a deadly disease,…
AbstractObjectiveTo quantify the comparative risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome or thromboembolic events associated with…
In July 2021 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly disclosed findings of a…
Will we continue to need annual covid boosters?Eleanor Riley, professor of immunology at the University…
Ward comments1 on a lack of acknowledgement of functional symptoms in long covid in our…
Greenhalgh and colleagues’ Practice Pointer1 and the Opinion article from Long Covid SOS2 serve as…
It must be a fraught task, writing about long covid. The list of symptoms is…
AbstractObjectivesTo describe symptoms and symptom clusters of post-covid syndrome six to 12 months after acute…
AbstractObjectiveTo compare the effectiveness of a primary covid-19 vaccine series plus booster doses with a…
The number of people admitted to hospital with covid-19 in England rose by almost a…
The UK government has been urged to re-examine its decision not to purchase a new…
Most countries haven’t learnt all the lessons of the covid pandemic and need to take…
Key messagesThe paucity of evidence during the early phase of the pandemic provided an opportunity…
Key messagesThe development of safe and effective covid-19 vaccines is one of the great success…
The UK government’s plans for the NHS and the economy, unveiled last week, don’t bode…
What you need to knowLong covid (prolonged symptoms following covid-19 infection) is common The mainstay…
For 68 year old Shivji Singh, a resident of Govind Chak village in Saran district,…
I love not only the textile representations of the coronavirus featured in this news story,1…
Protesters took to the pavement outside the White House on 19 September to demand a…
Key messagesMathematical modelling is intrinsically difficult given the complexity of relationships between parameters and difficulty…