Mark Mortimer Crosse
bmj;384/jan26_9/q192/FAF1faMark Mortimer Crosse was born in Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, the second of four sons of…
Category: Science and Health
Michael Hall
bmj;384/jan26_8/q194/FAF1faMichael Hall and his wife, Ann, retired to the Isle of Wight four years ago;…
Consultants in England narrowly reject pay deal
The BMA has urged ministers to put forward an improved pay offer for consultants in…
Carissa Etienne: erstwhile leader of PAHO and WHO who transformed public health in the Caribbean
bmj;384/jan26_6/q199/FAF1faCarissa Faustina Etienne was born in the Dutch Caribbean Island of Curaçao to Antoine Joseph…
Mental Health Act must be overhauled to tackle racial inequalities, say psychiatrists
Proposed reforms to the Mental Health Act must be enacted without delay to tackle the…
New advances in type 1 diabetes
ABSTRACTType 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition resulting in insulin deficiency and eventual loss of…
Assessment of level of consciousness using Glasgow Coma Scale tools
What you need to knowThe Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is a well known tool to…
Anthony Eisinger: innovative nephrologist who established a centre of excellence in renal medicine
bmj;384/jan26_2/q190/FAF1faGrandees from the then regional health authority, the Renal Association, central government, and the Department…
Myalgic encephalomyelitis: Charities complain about Dragons’ Den featuring claims about ear seeds
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) charities and support groups have complained about “misleading and potentially…
Treatments for cough and common cold in children
What you need to knowUpper respiratory tract infections are common, self-limiting illnesses that resolve without…
The Employer Public Option: A Tool for Improving Affordability via Alternative Health Coverage – Center For American Progress
The Employer Public Option: A Tool for Improving Affordability via Alternative Health Coverage Center For American…
Tiny ant species disrupts lion’s hunting behavior
Data gathered through years of observation reveal an innocuous-seeming ant is disrupting an ecosystem in…
STIs: Rise in young people follows decade of cuts to sexual health service, MPs hear
A government strategy on sexual health is needed to tackle the rising incidence of sexually…
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Does the NHS have a productivity problem?
Health service productivity matters for the whole economy. Healthcare spending, both governmental and non-governmental, consumed…
Prisoners with severe mental health needs are too often isolated, say monitoring boards
A lack of secure mental health beds in the community means that many prisoners in…
Physicians’ associates: why we need a pause and an urgent review
A footballer knows their job. Where to stand, what to do with the ball, and…
Gaza-Israel conflict: Hundreds of medics are killed or arrested after intense attacks on healthcare facilities
Since hostilities between Israel and Gaza began on 7 October 138 Palestinian and nine Israeli…
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Junior doctors in England to be reballotted over strike action
The BMA’s Junior Doctors Committee for England has announced that it will reballot its members…
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—25 January 2024
Breast cancer: treatment and screening improve survivalBreast cancer survival has improved hugely since 1975. But…
Patients with the greatest need have least continuity of care
The Health Services Safety Investigations Body’s findings vividly show the perils of lack of continuity…
A baby with a scalp plaque
This iodine stained, circular, and tender plaque covered with broken hairs and multiple pustules developed…
Data to knowledge to improvement: creating the learning health system
Despite an increased focus on quality improvement in healthcare over the past 50 years, many…
The BMJ Appeal 2023-24: IMF austerity policies are strangling healthcare systems in the Global South
A typical day for volunteer nurse Martha, one of only two healthcare workers at a…
Birthrate bombs . . . and other stories
PhaeochromocytomasIn the past, many cases of phaeochromocytoma came to light only during postmortem examination. A…
The BMJ Appeal 2023-24: Gaza’s mothers and babies need your help
bmj;384/jan25_5/q172/FAF1faAshraf Amra/Anadolu/GettyThis baby in an incubator at al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in the Gaza strip’s central…
An exquisitely painful fingertip lesion
A woman in her 50s presented with a five year history of a painful, slightly…
Essential workers during covid-19: how quickly we forget
There were many heroes during the covid-19 pandemic. Not only did the majority not wear…
Covid-19: Doctors instruct law firm in bid for compensation after developing long covid
A group of doctors with long covid are preparing to launch a class action for…
Caroline Richmond: formidable science journalist, quack busting campaigner, and obituarist
bmj;384/jan25_1/q163/FAF1faThe 1987 Christmas edition of The BMJ featured a hilarious spoof by the outspoken and…
Health Tech: SSRI alternative – Axios
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World’s first successful embryo transfer in rhinos paves the way for saving the northern white rhinos from extinction
Scientists have succeeded in achieving the world’s first pregnancy of a rhinoceros after an embryo…
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics: Prescribe only as last resort, says UK regulator
Doctors should prescribe fluoroquinolones only where no other antibiotics are appropriate for use, the UK’s…
Austen Joseph Moore
bmj;384/jan24_9/q154/FAF1faAusten Joseph Moore was the first in his family—and in his school—to go to university….
Edwin Anthony Slater
bmj;384/jan24_8/q141/FAF1faEdwin Anthony W Slater, affectionately known as Tony, was a much respected and very well…
Lola Ethel Barnett
bmj;384/jan24_7/q151/FAF1faIn 1938, aged 12, Lola Zloczower (later changed to Owers) fled Hamburg with her mother…
David Oliver: Social media’s false polarisation is no good for balanced NHS discussion
With the ongoing doctors’ strikes in England, nursing unions re-escalating their own campaign on pay,…
Injectable water filtration system could improve access to clean drinking water around the world
A new portable filtration system collects dirty water with a syringe and injects it into…
Popular diabetes drug may also reduce the risk of severe liver disease
Ozempic and other GLP1 agonists are associated with a reduced risk of developing cirrhosis and…
Gene expression atlas captures where ovulation can go awry
An interdisciplinary collaboration used a cutting-edge form of RNA tagging to map the gene expression…
Marine heat waves trigger shift in hatch dates and early growth of Pacific cod
Marine heat waves appear to trigger earlier reproduction, high mortality in early life stages and…
Neutrons reveal ‘atomic rings’ and help predict glass performance
Researchers found that understanding the stability of the rings of atoms in glass materials can…
Researchers find new multiphoton effect within quantum interference of light
An international team of researchers has disproved a previously held assumption about the impact of…
Three-year population study supports fight to save Cameroon’s Kordofan giraffe
Crucial new data about the numbers of Critically Endangered Kordofan giraffe living within Cameroon’s B…
AI surveillance tool successfully helps to predict sepsis, saves lives
Researchers find that utilizing a unique AI algorithm that monitors several patient variables, like vital…
Discovering the physics behind 300-year-old firefighting methods
Inspired by a 1725 fire engine that pumped water at larger distances and higher speeds…
New technology lets researchers track brain cells’ ‘off switches’
The method could shed light on what goes awry in numerous brain conditions when neurons…
Health researchers develop software to predict diseases
IntelliGenes analyzes genomic data to discover biomarkers associated with health traits. Read Original Article: Health…
Innovative tech shows promise to boost rubber production in US
With disease and high demand posing threats to the world’s primary natural rubber supply in…
Study suggests that unintentional weight loss is a signal to see a doctor
Unintentional weight loss is associated with an increase in the risk of a cancer diagnosis…
Could bizarre visual symptoms be a telltale sign of Alzheimer’s?
A team of international researchers has completed the first large-scale study of posterior cortical atrophy,…