Knock, knock. Who’s there? It’s the senior house officers trying to come back . . .
Wilkinson investigates deficiencies in workforce planning in the NHS.1Often commented on is the number of…
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Care practitioners performing surgery: time to develop a different career structure
Surgeons have criticised a trust for using a surgical care practitioner (SCP) to perform laparoscopic…
Analysis reveals global post-covid surge in infectious diseases
A large post-covid global surge in common communicable diseases including influenza, measles, tuberculosis, and whooping…
The high cost of opportunity: how medical school electives deepen the class divide
Who were medical school electives created for? As a student who is estranged from my…
SAS doctors in England accept government’s pay offer
Specialist, associate specialist, and specialty (SAS) doctors in England have accepted a pay offer from…
Helen Salisbury: Shortening the medical degree
NHS England has just announced that it will be piloting four year undergraduate medical courses…
Why will there be fewer female representatives at the BMA annual meeting this year?
On 24 and 25 June BMA members will gather in Belfast for the organisation’s annual…
Recognition, diagnosis, and early management of suspected sepsis: summary of updated NICE guidance
What you need to knowCalculate NEWS2 scores to determine an adult’s risk of severe illness…
Vaccine shortages worsen the deadliest cholera outbreaks in years
It’s nearly 18 months since the World Health Organization (WHO) raised cholera to its highest…
Bedtime battles: 1 in 4 parents say their child can’t go to sleep because they’re worried or anxious
One in four parents describe getting their young child to bed as difficult — and…
Direct evidence found for dairy consumption in the Pyrenees in the earliest stages of the Neolithic
A study on the remains of the Chaves and Puyascada caves, both located in the…
A high-fat diet may fuel anxiety
New research shows when animals are fed a diet high in saturated fat for nine…
Wear it, then recycle: Designers make dissolvable textiles from gelatin
Researchers hope their DIY machine will help designers around the world experiment with making their…
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Ancient polar sea reptile fossil is oldest ever found in Southern Hemisphere
An international team of scientists has identified the oldest fossil of a sea-going reptile from…
New screening tool could improve the survival rate of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma from 20% to 90%
Early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) — one of the most fatal malignancies — is…
Pair of merging quasars at cosmic dawn
With the help of the powerful GNIRS instrument on the Gemini North telescope, one half…
Extended maternal care central factor to human other animal, longevity
The relationship between mother and child may offer clues to the mystery of why humans…
Investigating the origins of the crab nebula
A team of scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of…
GP staff are running food banks and giving advice on dealing with poverty
GPs, primary care staff, and schoolteachers are all taking on additional roles to help people…
Lateral episiotomy or no episiotomy in vacuum assisted delivery in nulliparous women (EVA): multicentre, open label, randomised controlled trial
AbstractObjectiveTo assess the effect of lateral episiotomy, compared with no episiotomy, on obstetric anal sphincter…
Major US church group votes to oppose IVF
The Southern Baptist Convention voted at its annual meeting on 14 June to oppose the…
US healthcare spending will reach nearly 20% of GDP by 2032, predict experts
US healthcare spending growth will likely exceed the growth in gross domestic product (GDP) during…
Lateral episiotomy during vacuum assisted childbirth
The linked paper by Bergendahl and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-079014) provides much needed evidence supporting the use…
Climate: Jury fails to convict medics charged with JP Morgan protest
A jury was unable reach a majority decision on four doctors and two nurses who…
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Why I . . . go adventure sailing
After weeks of preparation, Trevor Thompson was finally out on the open sea in his…
Exploring different objectives in non-inferiority trials
Non-inferiority clinical trials conventionally try to show that a new treatment is not appreciably worse…
STAT+: Oncologists turn to blood test for circulating tumor DNA, but questions remain on how to use the data
The hope for many cancer patients who go through surgery is that they’ll be cured…
STAT+: Why a big California employer ditched Elevance for some of its health plans
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System is making a drastic change to one of its…
Gonadal function in male mice disrupted by prenatal risk factors
Researchers have consistently shown that prenatal exposure to Di (2-ethyhexyl) phthalate harms the reproductive system…
Scientists solve decades long mystery of NLRC5 sensor function in cell death
A new study identifies NLRC5 as an innate immune sensor that plays a crucial role…
Quantum entanglement measures Earth rotation
Researchers carried out a pioneering experiment where they measured the effect of the rotation of…
Researchers use large language models to help robots navigate
A technique can plan a trajectory for a robot using only language-based inputs. While it…
New approach to identifying altermagnetic materials
An international team has discovered a spectrum characteristic of an altermagnetic material with X-ray magnetic…
A liquid crystal source of photon pairs
Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), as a source of entangled photons, is of great interest for…
A new weapon in the battle against antibiotic resistance: Temperature
Scientists have shown in laboratory experiments that an increase in temperature from 37 to 40…
Vitamin B6: New compound delays degradation
A low vitamin B6 level has negative effects on brain performance. A research team has…
Strengthener for graphene
Layers of carbon atoms in a honeycomb array are a true supermaterial: their unusually high…
The genetic ‘switches’ of bone growth
In mammals, only 3% of the genome consists of coding genes which, when transcribed into…
Self-assembling and disassembling swarm molecular robots via DNA molecular controller
Researchers have succeeded in developing a DNA-based molecular controller. Crucially, this controller enables the autonomous…
Ultrasensitive liquid biopsy tech spots cancer earlier than standard methods
An artificial intelligence-powered method for detecting tumor DNA in blood has shown unprecedented sensitivity in…
Successful trial for new colorectal cancer treatment
Results from a new phase 1 trial indicate that immunotherapy could be used to treat…
Study on architecture of heart offers new understanding of human evolution
An international research team has uncovered a new insight into human evolution by comparing humans’…
Tiny New Zealand bird delivers a lesson in birdsong evolution
Scientists are rethinking the evolution of vocal learning in birds. New Zealand’s smallest bird, the…
Concrete-nitrogen mix may provide major health and environment benefits
Adding nitrogen to concrete could significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gases created by the…
New approach against fatty liver
Fatty liver disease (steatotic liver disease, SLD for short) is increasingly causing failure of the…
New and crucial role discovered for a protein in the body’s immunity against cancer
Researchers have found a new function for an existing protein. They discovered that TIMP-1, a…
Fasting primes the immune system’s natural killer cells to better fight cancer, new study in mice finds
A team of researchers has shown for the first time that fasting can reprogram the…
Sharks have depleted functional diversity compared to the last 66 million years
New research has found that sharks retained high levels of functional diversity for most of…
Infectious H5N1 influenza virus in raw milk rapidly declines with heat treatment
The amount of infectious H5N1 influenza viruses in raw milk rapidly declined with heat treatment…
Global trial confirms benefit of antacids on bleeding prevention for ventilated patients
Critically ill patients are at risk of stress-induced upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Now, a global trial…