Elizabeth Loder examines the emergence of organized US physician opposition to revalidation requirements. Something remarkable is happening right now in American medicine. A unified physician movement has emerged that cuts […]
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Juliet Dobson: Breast may be best, but it’s also a huge challenge
News of a new study published yesterday in Lancet Global Health, which shows that breast feeding is linked with higher IQ, was music to my ears. I am the mother […]
The BMJ Today: Are you worried about your cardiovascular risk?
• Sudden cardiac death is the main cause of medical death in athletes. Despite the fact that many cases of sudden cardiac death in athletes aged less than 35 are […]
Richard Hurley: Multimedia, interaction, gamification: what does tomorrow’s medical journal article look like?
The internet has made it ridiculously easy to access information. Traditional media outlets like The BMJ are having to compete even harder with each other for attention. The internet has also […]
The BMJ Today: Statins in pregnancy, sexual health in Pakistan, and mammography screening
Statins in pregnancy Bateman and co-workers report a well designed epidemiological study on statins in early pregnancy. Their analysis did not find a significant teratogenic effect from maternal use of […]
The BMJ Today: Prescribing on sparse evidence, homeopathy, and research methodology
How to prescribe when the evidence is lacking • Several observational studies have shown associations between using drugs with anticholinergic side effects—such as loperamide, loratadine, baclofen, amitriptyline, oxybutynin, or chlorphenamine—and […]
The BMJ Today: Treatments for inflammatory diseases
A combination of old drugs is not inferior to biologics for rheumatoid arthritis • Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors are safe and effective therapies for patients with rheumatoid arthritis resistant to […]
BMJ Today: Reassurance on varenicline, caring (or not) for NHS staff, and more holiday for emergency doctors
Good news for quitters A research paper in The BMJ today “is the most comprehensive published review to date of the neuropsychiatric safety of varenicline.” It was necessary, say the […]
Abi Rimmer and Navjoyt Ladher: Can books bridge the gap between art and medicine?
What links grief, the early suffragette movement, and evolution? All are themes in books shortlisted for this year’s Wellcome Book Prize, announced by writer Bill Bryson at Wellcome Collection’s shiny […]
The BMJ Today: Secrets, lying, and antiembolism stockings
Secrets and the threat to public health • In an editorial in The BMJ today, Martin McKee and Ronald Labonté write about the European Commission’s proposals to harmonise national legislation […]