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Medicine and Science from The BMJ — 989 episodes
Hands off our data: the need for sovereignty in a connected world
750 recommendations, and little change - why the UK keeps having maternity care reviews.
Children are bypassing the Australian social media ban
The £400 million blackhole for doctor training, drug ads evading regulation, and reining in AI in war
Cancer screening: when does testing go too far?
Child mortality has reduced, but there are worrying trends
How to make healthcare more human
What does Wes Streeting's exit mean for the NHS modernisation bill?
Social media companies are using the tobacco industry playbook to addict children
Revisiting the Cass Review on gender identity services, and non-invasive brain stimulation for children with autism
The US UK trade deal will cost the NHS billions, and only serve to increase pharma profits
The Trump administration is an international health emergency
The 15th strike, and bringing compassion back to A&E
The unchecked rise of shisha tobacco cafes, and making breastfeeding stick
New Covid inquiry findings with Dr Kevin Fong, and invasive cosmetic procedures
How the war in Iran will disrupt medical supplies around the world
Is the NHS in danger of making misinformation worse?
What should GP's make of the new NHS contract?
Household air pollution, Labour’s lag on child poverty, children forced to cope with conflict
Measles is surging in 2026. From London to Texas, why are cases hitting a 30-year high?
Rethinking Cancer Survivorship and the Autism Gender Gap
"We see coercion the other way... People cannot let go of their dying family" - assisted dying around the world
How the internet hijacked our health
What access to GPs tells us about the NHS 10 year plan, and online gambling
How much should doctors be paid? | BMJ Interviews Economist Richard Murphy
GLP-1 weight regain and doctors forced out of Gaza
Could a Ministry for the Future solve the climate crisis? | Kim Stanley Robinson interview
Christmas 2025 - neologisms, longevity and unexpected research
The shadow use of Gen AI in the consultation room
ADHD therapies, and the NHS gig economy
The Covid Inquiry - special episode
Climate, “car spreading”, and conflict
Doctors against the far right
The shaky science of the Q-collar, exercise for osteoarthritis, and patient choice.
The difficulty of delirium diagnosis, the lack of agency in the 10 year plan, and Gaza wounds
Doctors still have questions about the UK's assisted dying bill
Starvation in Gaza is a multi-generational disaster
CRISPR, stemcell banking, and a football world cup
The pitfalls of home test kits
The Future for Physician Associates? | Prof. Gillian Leng
NHS 10 year plan dissected
What are doctors demanding? | New BMA Chair, Tom Dolphin
Time to rethink GP's advice on weightloss, and ticagrelor data doubts
The plan for NHS league tables is bad, and will lead to unintended consequences
Wellness industry lies, and preventative AI evaluation
Conflict in South Asia, and simplifying GRADE.
Malaria free China, an academic medicine revolution, and retracted data's impact
The problem of prognostication in assisted dying.
Trump is trying to destroy universities - Ashish Jha, Dean of Public Health at Brown University
Reducing benefits will not get disabled people back to work, and explaining overdiagnosis
What does the death of NHS England, and the western alliance, mean for health?
The data on physician associates in the UK, and speaking up in the NHS
Phil Banfield on the British Medical Association's plan to support doctors
Combating disinformation, and time to stop spinal injections for chronic pain
Why compassion isn't just nice, it's essential
The industry playbook to combat public health, and FUTURE-AI
Prehabilitation before surgery, alcohol's impact on clinical care, and life after a cardiac arrest
Can a deal be done to keep the US in the WHO?
Conviviality and TV doctors, polar bear tales, and Christmas research
Big food infiltration of UK Schools, and chocolate consumption and diabetes
"Incredibly distressing and incredibly dangerous"- David Miliband on healthcare attacks, and staff turnover effect on patient outcomes
How MSF maintains neutrality in conflict zones
Conflict zones, women’s health research, and reimagining palliative care
Climate leadership - knowledge is power
Getting science into policy for gun control and NHS reform
Nutrition for health and conflicts of interests
Improving data for quality care when resources are stretched
GPs' industrial action, and the olympians after the games
Multi-cancer detection and NHS HIT Lists
Ensuring an Olympic legacy, and fixing primary care
The patient issue
Extending access for breast cancer, and epidural outcomes
Large, plausible and imminent - time to take H5N1 seriously
Elections and health in India, the UK, and the USA
The prospect of unemployed GPs
Fixing healthcare's workforce problems
Improving NHS gender identity services - Hilary Cass
Derogation, an ultra processed food system, and catch up pay for the NHS
The future of the clinical relationship, code sharing, and a Nye-t at the theatre
Retracting abortion papers, deafness in the clinic, and 70 years of a medical orchestra
Heidi Larson on misinformation, the right exercise to reduce depression, and Breathtaking TV
A health and care emergency, the US constitutional weakness for pandemic response, ActionAid in conflict zones
Christmas 2023 - performing medicine, and prescribing nature
Oxytocin, clinical outcomes, and patient choice, in resource constrained settings
Social connection is essential for health; supporting adolescent health and wellbeing
Give children control; supporting adolescent health and wellbeing
It’s time for an educational revolution; supporting adolescent health and wellbeing
Insulin without refrigeration and the complexities of consent
The future of the winter ’flu season
Low carb and cancer screening
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 5 - Getting our house in order: Decolonising the British Medical Association
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 4 - How to transform global health institutions born of colonial eras
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 3 - Common terrains of anti-colonial and feminist approaches to the politics of health
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 2 - Looking back to move forward: missing histories of the decolonisation agenda
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 1 - The colonial legacy in clinical medicine
Planet centred care - How to talk about this stuff
Planet centred care - Why doing less can be hard
Planet centred care - Sustainable healthcare is better for patients
Planet centred care - Sustainable healthcare is good for staff
Talking overdiagnosis
Planet centred care - It’s all about working together
Planet centred care - Greening the gaze
The problem with trainees - The GMC’s National Training Survey results data
Ensuring the integrity of research, and the future of AI as authors
Taking on the van Tullekens; how Margaret McCartney changed their minds about COIs
Talk Evidence - post pandemic pruning, breast cancer screening, and orphan drugs
Pride in healthcare
Doctor Informed - surviving in scrubs
Addiction in doctors
Nappuccinos and circadian rhythms
Why guideline authors need to pay attention to doctor’s time
Nuffield Summit 2023 - healthcare needs flexible working
Got grit?
Is it time for the Beano to drop the junk food brands?
Formal Training Pathways, are they really all that?
Conflict and food global food insecurity
DNACPR
#MedTwitter - a force for good or evil?
WISH 2022 - Antimicrobial resistance, and workforce wellbeing
Doctor informed - sustainability isn’t just waste management
Doctor Informed - the generational divide
Doctor Informed - what to expect from an inquest
Series 1 wrap up
Reflecting on a crisis
Diabetes in Ukraine - supporting NCDs in a conflict zone
Violence against GPs with Adam Janjua, Marcela Schilderman, and Anita Bignell
”But it’s always been done that way”
Get political, for health’s sake
Deep Breath In - what’s in store for general practice in the UK
Creativity and wellbeing
Quality improvement and wellbeing are inextricably linked
Doctor Informed - Medicine’s me too moments
Wellbeing - hot food on a night shift
Everyone’s going to make a mistake
Solving retention to support workforce recovery
Rural healthcare in a pandemic
The blame game
Learning to listen
Why is it so hard to speak out about patient safety?
US Assistant Secretary of Health, Rachel Levine
Who is responsible for patient safety?
Exit interview with Fiona Godlee
Covid and conflict In South Asia
Life Support - Being a compassionate colleague
Wellbeing - feeling addicted to your phone?
Doctor Informed - The patterns which emerge
Introducing Doctor Informed
Wellbeing - QI approach to improving your wellbeing
Covid in south Asia - India and Nepal
Wellbeing - tired or fatigued, and why the difference might matter
The future of Afghan healthcare
Healthcare In Afghanistan Now
Junior doctors improving hospital wellbeing
Wellbeing - scheduling and burnout
Women’s health and gender inequalities - Legislating for change
Wellbeing - surveying the mental health of NHS staff
Women’s health and gender inequalities - The science of women’s health
Wellbeing - the need for culturally aware support
Women’s health and gender inequalities - Campaigning for change
Wellbeing - are men worse at sounding the alarm about their mental health?
Coronavirus Second Wave - wrapping up the UK’s response
Wellbeing - Questions to ask yourself, if you think medicine may no longer be for you
Roopa Dhatt - Getting woman into leadership positions in healthcare
Wellbeing - Humanising medicine
Wellbeing - After shielding
Coronavirus second wave - headaches abound
Measure the broader impacts of healthcare
Coronavirus second wave - vaccination roll out changes, uncertainty about long covid
Wellbeing - Put yourself first
What should ”following the science” mean for government policy?
Stephen Thomas - Behind the scenes in the Pfizer vaccine trial
Coronavirus second wave - cancelled surgery, increasing waiting lists
Wellbeing - speaking out about mental health in the NHS
The BMJ Interview - Jeremy Farrar; sharing the vaccine is enlightened self interest
Corona virus second wave - Palliative care, and online abuse
Wellbeing special - A post vaccination mindfullness moment
Neil Greenberg on tackling PTSD in the NHS
The BMJ interview - Jeremy Hunt MP
Coronavirus second wave - The NHS one year on
The BMJ interview - Tom Frieden, former CDC director on why we thought we were prepared
Coronavirus second wave - 100,000 deaths
Coronavirus second wave - The view from the front line
The BMJ interview: Fixing America’s covid response in the Biden era
The BMJ Interview - Andrew Pollard on the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine
Wellbeing - where to turn for emotional support during the pandemic
Food aid - helping providers support the health of their users
Coronavirus second wave - The UK’s fourth lockdown
Listening is the first part of research
The Deep Breath talking wellbeing evidence round-up of the year.
Wellbeing - Human factors, and Christmas Logistics
Food insecurity in the 6th largest economy
The soundscape of a hospital
Rob Poynton wants you to pause
Coronavirus second wave - Should we cancel Christmas?
Inside a vaccine trial
Coronavirus second wave - the vaccine’s here, but the pandemic isn’t over
Lockdown lessons from an Antarctic winter
Corona virus second wave - Fears for tiers
Calum Semple - the efficacy of mass testing in Liverpool
Why the government is being sued over PPE contracts
Coronavirus second wave - recentring patients in our covid-19 response
Wellbeing - What we’ve learned from treating doctors
Coronavirus second wave - vaccines, how ready is the needle to hit the arm?
How well did hospitals perform for their staff during covid?
Coronavirus second wave - viral transmission and a vaccine announcement
A lump in the throat with Nick Hamilton, Deonne Dersch-Mills and Bonnie Kaplan
Coronavirus second wave - Making the lockdown work
Chris Whitty on the challenge of winter, lockdown, and following the science
Coronavirus second wave - what the modelling say about slowing transmission
Deep Breath In - EUPD with Leisha Davies, Soumitra Burman-Roy and Marie Stella McClure
Second wave updates - How it’s affecting practice now
Wellbeing - Dreading the second wave
Economics for Drs - what you need to know to understand UBI and a jobs guarantee
Coughing kids with Tim Spector and Edward Snelson
A way for healthcare to become net-zero for carbon
’Flu vaccine season - with Nikki Turner and Jeff Kwong
Nudge it
Anthony Fauci - on changing science, long-covid, and political intrusion into health agencies
Talking about obesity with Stephanie deGiorgio and Naveed Sattar
Wellbeing - Mask shaming
Time For A Pill Check With Anne McGregor And Tara Stein
Wellbeing – The joy of socks
What Do We Know About Long Covid
Thinking about vitamin D with Andrew Grey and Tom Chatfield
“Trust me, I’m a GP” with Karen Praeter and Rhea Boyd
Wellbeing – addiction during lockdown
Marian Knight - Improving obstetric outcomes with a single dose of antibiotics
David Pencheon - measuring the climate impact of the NHS
Covid public health - Data is fundamental
Tackling racism with Annabel Sowemimo, Shani Scott and Joan Saddler OBE
Making the drug and device system fit for patients
What are the chances of an American vaccine?
Wellbeing – how to say no
Lowering the shield with Julia Marcus and Carol Liddle
David Michaels - Doubt is an industry tactic
Covid-19 in the U.S. - returning to work in a pandemic
Mala Rao on the UK’s new race in health observatory
Resetting General Practice with Martin Marshall, Jenny Doust and Toyin Ajayi
The corona virus pandemic in South America
Wellbeing - the art of the staycation
Wellbeing - how Burmese Buddhism can help
Counting the ways Donald Trump failed in the pandemic
Testing times with James McCormack and Jess Watson
Ray Moynihan - Declarations of interest in healthcare leaders
Wellbeing – how to write a wellbeing prescription
Public health response to covid-19 - data integrity and the importance of international comparison
Talking about dying from covid with Scott Murray and Katherine Shear
Pandemics from history - how they inform our response now
Adam Kucharski, using viral epidemiology to combat fake news
Soumya Swaminathan - WHO’s chief scientist is trying to fix research during a pandemic
Wellbeing – how to deal with the post-emergency crash
Public health response - Lifting thelockdown
Wellbeing – coping with Covid fatigue
Coping with Covid with Monica Schoch-Spana and Jud Brewer
Frontline stories - caring for non-covid patients
Wellbeing – how one junior doctor found a way to support frontline staff
Public Health Vs The Economy
Frontline stories - working as a GP during covid
Teleconsulting with Trish Greenhalgh and Fiona Stevenson
Feeling the fear with Iona Heath and Danielle Ofri
Wellbeing – advice from a military medic to frontline clinicians
Wellbeing - some advice for telehealth in secondary care
Front line stories - How corona is changing acute care
The public health response to covid - 19
Wellbeing - Some advice on working in PPE
Look after yourself during covid-19
WHO’s response to covid-19
Organisational kindness during covid-19
For a greener NHS - a call for evidence
Cycling - Does the health benefit outweigh the accident risk (in the UK)
Why we are failing patients with multimorbidity
Yvonne Coghill is trying to fix racism in the NHS
Born equal - the launch of The BMJ special issue on race in medicine
David Williams - everyday discrimination is an independent predictor of mortality
Big Tan - Is the sunbed industry targeting research?
Writing a good outpatient letter means addressing it to the patient
QI and improvement are not synonyms
Prevalence and treatment of precocious puberty
Surviving childhood cancer treatment
Is it possible to have fair pricing for medicines
Michael West - GMC Report On Wellbeing
From dance class to social prescription - starting and evaluating an idea
Editors pick of education in 2019
The need for (psychiatrists’) speed
Talking up your research - Sex makes a difference
Talk Evidence - digital clubbing, osteoarthritis & sustainable EBM
Talk Evidence - Talking about harms
Behind the campaign promises - Doctors in parliament
Behind the campaign promises - what the NHS means for the election
Behind the campaign promises - Health beyond the NHS
Behind the campaign promises - Health and social care spending
Behind the campaign promises - GP numbers, and appointment slots
Reversing our preconceptions about where innovation comes from
Creating a speak out culture
Creating support for doctors in the NHS
Nudging the calories off your order
Testing for TB is only skin deep
20 Arnav Agarwal
19 Marion Nestle
Statins for primary prevention - How good is the evidence
Ancestry DNA tests can over or under estimate genetic disease risk
How Blockchain could improve clinical trial transparency
A new way to look at behaviour change in UK GPs
17 Liam Mannix
18 David Tovey
Minimum unit pricing in Scotland
Climate change will make universal health coverage precarious
Cancer drug trials used for regulatory approval are at risk of bias
Brexit - Planning for medicine shortages
Vaping deaths - does this change what we think about public health messages
Extending the UK’s sugar tax to snacks
The government is lacking detail over Brexit planning
Tackling burnout in The Netherlands
Physical activity and mortality - ”The least active quartile did less than 5 minute per day”
Gottfried Hirnschall is optimistic about ending the HIV epidemic
Burnout - Don’t try to make the canary in the coal mine more resilient
Sustainable health
Patient’s rights in research - moving beyond participation
Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome
Fighting bad science in Austria
Fertility awareness based methods for pregnancy prevention
I have never encountered an organisation as vicious in its treatment of whistleblowers as the NHS
After Grenfell
Did international accord on tobacco reduce smoking?
Working as a team, and combating stress, in space
Thoroughly and deliberately targeted; Doctors in Syria
Planning for the unplannable
What Matters To You Day
Tech and the NHS - A tale of two cultures
Finding out who funds patient groups
What caused the drop in stroke mortality in the UK
Helping parents with children who display challenging behaviour
Tackling gambling
The sex lives of married Brits
Doctors and extinction rebellion
Introducing Sharp Scratch - our new podcast for students and junior doctors
Gypsy and Traveller health
Could open access have unintended consequences?
Capital punishment, my sixth great grandfather, and me
How to have joy at work
Social prescribing
Applying new power in medicine
Is opt-out the best way to increase organ donation?
An acutely disturbed person in the community
Passing on the secret knowledge of loop diuretics
#talkaboutcomplications
Ebola - Stepping up in Sierre Leone
Signals from the NIHR
Nuffield 2019 - How can the NHS provide a fulfilling lifelong career
Diabetes Insipidus - the danger of misunderstanding diabetes
Sorry for the interruption in service
Safeguarding LGBT+ young people
Should we be screening for AF?
Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Assisted dying: should doctors help patients to die?
Goran Henriks - How an 80 year old woman called Esther shaped Swedish Healthcare
Talk evidence - TIAs, aging in Japan and women in medicine
HIV - everything you wanted to know about PeP and PreP
HbA1c - when it might not be accurately measuring glycemic control
Terence Stephenson - looking back at chairing the GMC
How Coca-Cola shaped obesity science and policy in China
Coding at Christmas
Women in medicine at Christmas
Christmas Food 2018
Making multisectoral collaboration work
Trojan Milk
The bone crushing nausea of hyperemesis
God is in Operating Room 4
Carers need a voice in the NHS
Acceptable, tolerable, manageable - but not to patients. How drug trials report harms.
Talk evidence - Vitamin D, Oxygen and ethics
Adverse drug reactions
HAL will see you now
How much oxygen is too much oxygen?
How does lifestyle affect genetic risk of stroke?
Talking honestly about intensive care
Nasal symptoms of the common cold
What’s it like to live with a vaginal mesh?
How to taper opioids
The counter intuitive effect of open label placebo
Vinay Prasad - there is overdiagnosis in clinical trials
UK children are drinking less and the importance of a publicly provided NHS
Don’t save on transport at the cost of the NHS
15 Iona Heath
Defending evidence informed policy making from ideological attack
How often do hospital doctors change long term medication during an inpatient stay?
Nutritional science - Is quality more important than quantity?
Preventing Overdiagnosis 2018 - part 2: What opened your eyes to overdiagnosis?
Preventing overdiagnosis 2018 - Part 1
Have we misunderstood TB’s timeline?
13 Iain Chalmers
The diagnosis and treatment of dyspareunia
Patient information is key to the therapeutic relationship
15 seconds to improve your workplace
Mendelian Randomisation - for the moderately intelligent
What does the public think of the NHS?
10 Rita Redberg
Doctors and vets working together for antibiotic stewardship
James Munro cares about patients opinions.
Prof. Wendy Burn - the changing focus of psychiatry.
Your recommended dose of Ray Moynihan
Evidence in a humanitarian emergency
When an investigative journalist calls
Don Berwick - you can break the rules to help patients
Darknet Opioids
09 John Ioannidis
Ashish Jha tries to see the world as it is.
Nutritional science - why studying what we eat is so difficult.
The misunderstanding of overdiagnosis
Biochem for kids
Antidepressants and weight gain
Think of healthcare is an ecosystem, not a machine
New antivirals for Hepatitis C - what does the evidence prove?
What forced migration can tell us about diabetes
Big Metadata
WHO can tackle pharma advertising
The complexities of depression in cancer
E-cigarettes - debating the evidence
Harry Burns - the social determinants of Scotland
Can we regulate intellectual interests like financial ones?
Civilians under siege in Eastern Ghouta
Online Consultations - general practice is primed for a fight
Evidence for off label prescribing - explore less, confirm more
How to stop generic drug price hikes (or at least reduce them)
Dorling on decreasing life expectancy - ”the DOH have lost their credibility”
Unprofessionalism - ”blaming other people, I put that at the top of the impact list”
Should doctors prescribe acupuncture for pain?
Nuffield Summit 2018 - HR in all policies, how the NHS can become a good employer
Katherine Cowan - Reaching A Priority
Should universal distribution of high dose vitamin A to children cease?
Fever in the returning traveller
SDGs - How many lives are at stake?
”We don’t really know the impact of these products on our health”: Ultraprocessed food & cancer risk
How does it feel, to help your patient die?
The tone of the debate around assisted dying
Torture - What declassified guidelines tell us about medical complicity
We must not get to the stage of thinking that [homelessness] is normal
Public health - time for pragmatism or knowledge production?
Smoking one a day can’t hurt, can it?
Virginia Murray - the science of disaster risk reduction
Education round-up - January 2018
They can’t hear you - how hearing loss can affect care.
MVA85A trial investigation - press conference.
neoadjuvant treatment for breast cancer - not living up to the promise
Winter pressures - ”You run the risk of dropping the ball”
Suspect, investigate, and diagnose acute respiratory distress syndrome
Hope is important - early psychosis for the non-specialist doctor
Cats, dogs, and biomarkers of ageing.
Small, medium, or a pint of wine?
Taking the temperature of 37°C
Manflu - are men immunologically inferior?
I thought I wasn’t thin enough to be anorexic
Early detection of eating disorders
Should all fetuses be monitored electronically during birth?
”Obesity is the last thing it’s OK to discriminate on the basis of”
Dieting, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mortality
Antibiotic prescription course - an update
Is it time to scrap the UK’s mental health act?
Three talks to good decision making
Education round up October 2017
Money for editors
The death of QOF?
70% rise in incidence of self harm in teenagers
Exercise in old age - ”we need kendo classes in Huddersfield”
Sex in surgery
Vinay Prasad - Cancer drugs from an oncologist point of view
There’s no clear evidence that most new cancer drugs extend or improve life
Telephone consultations - no cost savings, but increased GP workload
Selling off NHS silver?
What Choosing Wisely looks like in the UK
Diabetes remission - ”treating blood glucose, when the disease process is to do with body fat”
The problems with peer review
HIV in pregnancy - ”without the big picture, people aren’t going to be able to take the medication”
Googling depression
Nigel Crisp - The NHS isn’t just a cost to society, it’s a benefit
The World Bank - creating a market in pandemic risk
The World Bank - the Global Financing Facility
The World Bank - trust funds
The World Bank - Universal Healthcare
The World Bank - why it matters for global health
Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - from theory to practice
Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Citizen juries
Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Vinay Prasad
Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Rita Redberg
Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Stacy Carter on the culture of overmedicalisation
What’s driving overdiagnosis?
Helping Bereaved people
Auditing the transparency policies of pharma
Mike Richards has ”never been politically interfered with”
”For the first time in 15 years the quitting rate has gone up” - ecigarettes smoking cessation
What’s going on with life expectancy?
Biomarkers - miracle or marketing?
James Kinross and Chris Hankin WannCry about NHS IT
Is the FDA really too slow?
”For the public good, not for careers” - Iain Chalmers and Doug Altman on research waste
Dementia prevalance in 2040
Transhealth - how to talk to patients about pronouns
Childhood IQ and cause of death
The Evidence Manifesto - it’s time to fix the E in EBM
Stress at work
”The interest of diesel drivers over the interest of the public” - tackling air pollution
How to build a resillient health system
Your brain on booze
Future Earth - linking health and environmental research
Government and evidence
50% of delirium is hypoactive - how to spot it
Helping patients with complex grief
NHS must “get its act together” to secure cash for new buildings
Education Round - Exercising too much, microbiome, suicide and translation
The magic of shared decision making
Drug promotion, prescription, and value
How established biologics become less safe
“I had two herniated discs in my back, and I was still running” - addicted to exercise
The evidence manifesto - better trials, better use of trial data
Assessing and treating an electrical injury
”We’re kicking the can down the road” - how to get agreement on the future of the NHS
Fighting inequality, corruption, and conflict - how to improve South Asia’s health
STPs - who, what, why, when, where.
High integrity child mental healthcare
What is high integrity healthcare?
”Watching the world through a clear fog” - recognising depersonalisation and derealisation
American healthcare - what next?
Dying on the canal
Education round up - HIV testing, legal highs and care for relatives of the dying
Identifying a viral rash in pregnancy
Nuffield Summit 2017 - Reducing Demand
Emergency care plans at the end of life
Should malaria be eradicated?
Palliative care is about life, not death
Community acquired pneumonia in children
The inadequacy of the UK’s childhood obesity strategy
Low intensity pulsed ultrasound - no difference for bone healing
How people die remains in the memory of those who live on - supporting the relatives of the dying
Helping patients with medically unexplained symptoms
US Surgeon General - “For far too long addiction has been looked at as a moral failing”
Should all American doctors be using electronic medical records?
Expanding your mind about novel psychoactives
Big Data - what effect is it going to have on EBM
Gluten free on the NHS
Surrogate outcomes distorting medicine
Nanny state knows best
Christmas 2016 - War
Christmas 2016 - truth, post truth, nothing like the truth
Christmas 2016 - Health and happiness
Christmas 2016 - ideologies and moralities
Education round up - November
Caring for renal transplant patients
Margaret McCartney wants to fix the NHS
Evidence for vitamin D supplimentation
Blinding the randomisation
What to do after a concussion
Non-drug treatments for chronic insomnia
Cancer drugs, survival, and ethics
Advertising junk food to children
Research before researching
Rapid Recs - patient preference in heart valve replacement
Catherine Calderwood’s realistic medicine
Middle East respiratory syndrome
Beyond data sharing - ”It was me who got my research team out of jail... that’s my data”
Head to head - Should all GPs be NHS employees?
Preventing Overdiagnosis In Barcelona
Living kidney donation
The ethics of placebo
Ghostwriting redefined
Reprehensible, but the people carrying out atrocities have very low rates of mental disorders
Late effects of anticancer chemotherapy: It’s hard to trust your body, after it’s betrayed you
”It suggests that older people have a lower value in society” - Ageism in global development
Not just our ethical credibility as a profession, but our shared humanity
Education round up - ICE, examinations, and adherence
A maladaptive pathway to drug approval
Evidence for examination
Likelihood ratios in diagnostic tests
Poor adherence to antihypertensives
Anticipatory care
Ivan Oransky watching retractions
How does maximizing shareholder value distort drug development?
What went wrong with care.data?
You’ve been ICE’d
Should we scrap the internal market in England’s NHS
Treating hip osteoarthritis
Having hip osteoarthritis
PreP And public health
Can guidelines be reformulated to account for how doctors actually use information?
Evidence live - Emily Sena on closing the gap between clinical and basic science
Julia Beluz And Victor Montori - Journalists And doctors; separated by a common evidence
Epilepsy in pregnancy
Caring for patients with delirium at the end of their life
”What has convinced me is the evidence” - why mandatory treatment for drug use is a bad idea
Tell me a story
Guidelines Not Tramlines
Uncovering the uncertainty on wound dressing
Women and the Zika Virus
Abortion as a development issue
What are they on?
The Weekend Effect - what’s (un)knowable, and what next?
”Women deliver, and not only babies”
Travellers’ diarrhoea
”The information we get can be harmfull”; Informed consent is not a panacea
The science of improvement
Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US
Ecigarettes; ”...the risk is 5% of that caused by smoking”
BMJ roundtable: How to fix out of hours care
Bad with names
”The harm and the benefit of treatment is about the same” - cardiac screening for athletes
Doctors in spaaaaaace
The pattern of damage caused by Zika virus in the brains of 23 foetuses
”What’s the point in living, in a body I don’t want” - how the NHS treats trans people
Budget decisions can decrease alcohol deaths in less than 18 months
Why the junior doctors are striking again
Greenwing cast explain why they’re with the junior doctors
Plan, do, study, act
Mistakes were made
Médecins Sans Frontières’s Dunkirk spirit
How and when to treat depression in pregnancy
Should doctors boycott working in Australia’s immigration detention centres?
Jeremy Hunt Interview
”I thought I was the worst person with type I...” - Self management of diabetes
”We’re pulling the rug out from under the feet of [GPs]”
”It’s the workforce, stupid” - is the NHS workforce in crisis?
Zika virus - ”it really felt like having bad sunburn, all over your body”
What is vaginal seeding - and is it safe?
Frontline NHS charges for migrants will harm the most vulnerable
Time to end the federal ban on gun violence research funding
Junior doctors second strike - from the picket line
Stopping the overtreatment of malaria
The role of stenting in stable angina
Could campaigns like Dry January do more harm than good?
Exercise induced bronchoconstriction
CKD In the elderly - disease, or disease label
Cancer screening - does it save lives?
Why are Dutch GPs happier than British ones?
In search of the Christmas spirit
The big (research) book of British teeth
Gunslingers gait
Diagnosing COPD in primary care
The more you see, the more you eat
Sarah Wollaston - obesity, not a sugary drinks tax, is regressive
The diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder
The evidence on doctors strikes and patient harm
Revisiting the bridge
Unexpected findings, with uncertain implications, in research imaging
This house believes that medicine is the best career in the world.
Diagnosis and treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis in adults
Europe’s impending syrup tsunami
Mark Britnell - You have to value your workforce
The junior doctor protest
Are new diabetes drugs approved too easily?
Is place of death important to patients?
Why do the Scottish do fewer knee arthroscopies?
Cardiac rehab
What it’s like to receive cardiac rehabilitation
How scientific are US dietary guidelines?
Dengue fever
They drained 92L from me - diagnosis and management of pleural effusion
Being diagnosed with ovarian cancer
Diagnosing ovarian cancer
A research agenda for medical overuse
Diagnosis and treatment of hepatic encephalopathy
Open Doors For Sex Workers
Sex worker health
The system can abuse older people too
Tackling racism in the NHS
Should doctors recommend homeopathy?
Rheumatic fever - diagnosis and treatment
Tarnished GOLD - diagnosing COPD
GI bleeding, slow to diagnose, slow to treat
The trials and tribulations of peer review
How GPs can help carers looking after patients with
Time to target older women for cervical cancer screening?
Diagnosis and management of dementia
QOF, what is it good for?
Rethinking caesarean delivery
Methodological gloss won’t fix a rubbish evidence base
They want to say something on health . . . so what can you fish up?
bmj.com at 20
The BMJ requires data sharing on request for all trials
ADHD in childhood - diagnosis
ADHD in childhood - treatment
Speech difficulties in preschool children
Infectious mononucleosis FAQs
The health debate - the analysis
Management of a multiple sclerosis relapse
Health apps for well people - problematic or panacea?
Foodbanks - is supply or demand increasing their usage
How to talk to a patient about delusional infestation
Withdraw the interim report on the UK’s billion unit pledge
Preventing sudden cardiac death in athletes
Trigeminal neuralgia - the evidence base for medical and surgical treatments
Thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke - time for a rethink?
Chris Moulton A and E - patients are usually justified in presenting as an emergency
Patrick Keating GP - under pressure to increase list size
Obioma Ezekobe GP - patients need to be educated about resources
Katherine Henderson A and E consultant - lack of ward beds is hitting A and E the hardest
Has the balance of screening for AAA tipped towards harm?
Nuffield summit - Ashish Jha explains Acountable Care Organisations
Nuffield summit - Bastiaan Bloem on parkinsons.net
How to diagnose overdiagnosis
Overdiagnosis in breast cancer - 45 years to become a mainstream idea
Roundtable: Hopes for the NHS, the election and beyond
Assessment and management of alcohol use disorders
Jackie Applebee GP - the funding formula is hurting deprived practices
Mark Folman GP - time pressure and patient care
Michelle Sinclair GP - surgery buildings are not up to scratch
Patient spotlight - How can we get better at providing patient centred care?
Patient spotlight - Doing it for themselves
International donations to the Ebola virus outbreak: too little, too late?
Helping Eddie Redmayne play Stephen Hawking
Management of cancer induced bone pain
Cash for referrals
Managing multimorbidity in primary care
WHO needs exercise?
Dominique Thompson GP - Young people’s health is overlooked
Rabies in animals
Rabies in humans
Is the Hep C screening expansion justified?
Being a human guinea pig
Operating theatre time, where does it all go?
Grumpy old doctors
Can you trust the advice of TV doctors?
Turning back the tide of appointments
Men are idiots
Musical (operating) theatre
Great leap backwards - austerity measures are hitting the vulnerable hardest
Too much blood: when transfusions do more harm than good
Zero tolerance for competing interests
Simon Stevens - saving the NHS?
Self monitoring of hypertension in pregnancy
Crohn’s disease - a patient’s perspective
The diagnosis and management of Menieres disease
Menieres disease - a patient perspective
Should we still be using hydroxyethyl starch?
Atul Gawande - It’s about having a good life not a good death
It’s time to change surgical training in the UK
Update on malaria - new technologies helping to tackle the disease
Fighting on many fronts - how tackling ebola is effecting other diseases
The blockbuster sex drug for women; creating a feminist issue
”Death is not inevitable”; why society’s beliefs fuel overtreatment
Is NHS England being whittled down to a core service?
How to manage cerebral palsy in children
Are we overmedicalising global health?
Listen to patients, how Radboud UMC changed quality and care
How not to miss kawasaki disease
Risky Business - Kevin Fong - learning too much from aviation?
Preventing overdiagnosis - the problems with screening
Trans-sphenoidal surgery, a patient’s experience
Overtreating mild hypertension, are we doing more harm than good?
Should patients be able to email their doctor?
Ebola virus disease, a long terms perspective
How to test for an immediate food allergy
Diagnosing and managing spasticity in adults
Are essential medicines essential?
Pre-diabetes - epidemic or emperor’s new clothes?
Should research fraud be a criminal offence?
Newly diagnosed HIV
Why we need an independent WHO
FiFA, the World Cup, and the disappearing alcohol ban
Drugs for weight loss
Helicobacter pylori - new evidence, and when to test and treat
Is advice to cut down smoking wrong?
Investigating UTIs in older adults
Alcohol - The UK’s billion unit pledge is worthless
Operating to remove recurrent colorectal cancer: have we got it right?
Patient confidentiality in the digital age
The problems with testosterone testing in female athletes
Should doctors be prescribing cannabinoids?
Using HbA1c to diagnose type 2 diabetes
How to manage the first seizure in an adult
Tamiflu US Press Conference
Triptans for the acute treatment of migraine
Friends and family test: Don’t just collect data, use it
Who, when and how: Screening for MRSA
ParkinsonNet: a new approach to management of chronic disease
Recognising a subdural haematoma in the elderly
The Health and Social Care bill: An end of year report
HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening in Australia
Recognising and treating fibromyalgia
Steps to limit smoking in China could save 13,000,000 lives in 35 years
Twenty-five Year Follow-up of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study
Veggie drugs
BMJ podcast: Treating erectile dysfunction
BMJ podcast - high risk devices for rare conditions
Why don’t WHO guidelines on fluid resuscitation in children include the FEAST trial results?
Should journals stop publishing research funded by the drug industry?
Solving the case, making the diagnosis: Neurology and detective writing
Virgin births, poor house hospital and right or happy
James Bond’s drinking and caring for undocumented migrants
Christmas charity appeal and treating polymyalgia rheumatica
Patient centred research and doctors burnout
Aneurysmal subarachnoid haermorrhage
Population ageing, the timebomb that isn’t
A sugary drinks tax, liver tests in pregnancy
Heath in Europe, When to order ANA tests
Statins: benefits and harms for low risk patients
Tobacco industry vs science, vCJD in the UK
Brain tumours in children, and why all polyps are not equal
Leaving the RCGP
Possible racial bias in the RCGP exam
A new chief inspector of hospitals
Safety from Syria
Treating childhood autism, and cardiac imaging for stable chest pain
HPV testing in preventing cervical cancer
Diagnosing dementia, treating personality disorder
Looking forward
Retrained to eat
Disaster and dementia
12 steps to public health
Clubfoot
Urinary tract infections
Transmuting tamoxifen
Personal care
Disinvestment
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Sex life - from soup to nuts
Variolae Vaccina
Sunbeds and spotlights
Cannabis conversations
Regulating herbal medicines
Sudden death
Seeing the body
Cambodia
Screening and serodiscordance
Legacy of the games
Healthy heart, happy smile
Suicide, sport, and CME
I ♥ the smoking ban
Radios and retinas
BMA-on-Sea
Methado, methadon’t, methadone
The white paper
The bridge
The NHS market place
Musical lithotomy
Heavy weather
The hidden eunuch
Shit happens
NICE in America
Rational suicide
Spotlight on palliative care beyond cancer
Radical reforms
Safety comes second
The new lost tribe
Reboxetine and the missing data
Hyper hypo
China
Regulation, regulation, regulation
Risky business 2010
Refer, or not to refer...
A tale of two cycles
Christmas 2010
And that was 2010
Sting in the tale
Dowsing for data
Andrew Lansley’s apples and oranges
Judging the nudging
Overusing oxygen
Diabetes
A hearty drink
Food for thought
Watching waiting times
30 years of AIDS
From Fukushima
NHS reforms round table
Trade in generics
BMJ Round Table Shared Decision - Making Patients
BMJ Round Table Shared Decision - Making Practicalities
BMJ Round Table Shared Decision - Making Background
Shared decision making
ACE to ARB
Understanding information
Artificial pancreas and a genetic ISO
Travelling when pregnant
Cold homes cost lives
Prophylaxis for endocarditis
Climate change and population, sleep and obesity
Immunisation and ectopic pregnancy
Sharing the pain
Beansprouts and blood pressure
A world without smoking
Bed blues
Artificial organs and surgical research
Designed for health
Sharing decisions and data
Tracking down TB
Doctors in the danger zone
Global Health and TB
Drink, drugs, and comic book villains
Facing the dragon
Unprecedented access
Mental health and mortality
Caring for the carers
10 Lords revolting
Regulating education, and respiratory infections
Climate, health, and security
Decriminalisation of drugs in Portugal
Watching receptionists, watching weight
Undernutrition in India
Sudden death in epilepsy; NAFLD mortality
Evolved to run
AIDS at 30
Brain drain
Death in Borsetshire
2011
Missing data
Surgical performance
Antidepressants and tamiflu
New antiepileptics and the drop in MI deaths
Healthcare and corruption in Uttar Pradesh
Cannabis in cars
Menopause, HRT, and cancer
After the health bill - what next?
Tackling NCDs in developing countries
Elective ventilation and the future of medical professionalism
Neurodegenerative disease and cancer, and peer led parenting
Emergency contraception, and stopping smoking
SSRIs in dementia, and exposure to a rash in pregnancy
Stopping the spread of disease at the Olympics and Hajj
Overactive bladder syndrome
23.5 hours to change behaviour
SPARX and spirometry
Type 1 or type 2 diabetes?
GAVI in Ghana
Anti vaccination movements
Doctors on strike
It’s time to say sorry
Are statins still safe?
Herpes simplex encephalitis
Research free for all?
The future of secondary care - full roundtable
The future of secondary care
Obama’s healthcare reforms on trial
Telehealth: Running before walking?
Insanity in the dock
Shift workers’ health and assessing risk of violence
Renal patient records
Is the drug pipeline really drying up?
Fighting the food giants
Ecological public health
Bad for wealth, bad for health?
Acutely ill patients
Spotting pre-eclampsia, and debating obesity
Newer insulins and stents in diabetic patients
Reducing emergency admissions: are we on the right track?
Stayin’ Alive, in the cardboard city
Treating the masses, overtreating the few
Bariatric surgery, neuromuscular blocking agents, and calcium in primary parahyperthyroidism
Smoking in Japan
Fishy data
The silent misdiagnosis
Countering counterfeits
Checking out the check-ups
Neonatal survival and Lifebox
Emergency oxygen use
Non-coeliac but gluten sensitive?
Christmas 2012: The speed bump test
Prison health
Deworming debunked
The science of sugar
H7N9, and NHS standardised mortality rates
American life
Screening and treating clinically localised prostate cancer
Treating early psychosis
Mid Staffs inquiry, and digging for data
The future of primary care
Start with the basics, food and fluid
Health in all policies
How do we put the compassion back into healthcare?: Full roundtable discussion
Compassion and variation
Witty words on data
After Francis, what next?
Are all calories equal?
Carotid atherosclerosis and patient participation
All trials registered | All results reported
Tackling hypertension in India
Dealing with delirium
Warts and all
Dying patients in hospital, e-patients online
Suspected heart failure
The BMJ Awards: Medical Team of the Year
Vulnerable adults, and the road to cycle safety
Think then scan, don’t scan then think
Corporations as vectors of disease
Bias in clinical guidelines, and giving birth at home
Tackling violence against women
NSAIDs update
Surgical outcome data
Antibiotics in agriculture
Dying at home
Lost in transfusion?
Plain Packaging