I often try and whizz round an exhibition during a lunch hour, but the Wellcome Collection’s latest exhibition on forensics is not one to rush. My visit was how I […]
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The BMJ Today: Cloned GPs, MDR TB, and more after Savile
Here is a taste of what’s new on thebmj.com today. If I ruled the NHS • We need drones, robots, and autonomous ambulances In our new series, Mary Church, a Glasgow […]
The BMJ Today: Smoking outdoors, substandard drugs in trials, and managing lower gastrointestinal symptoms
Here is my personal selection of what is new on The BMJ today: Head to Head • Is a smoking ban in UK parks and outdoor spaces a good idea? […]
The BMJ Today: The perils of whistleblowing and the Russian roulette of NHS management
Here’s a flavour of what’s new on thebmj.com today. Features • Why would a hospital consultant go into management? Taking the job of NHS trust chief executive requires a doctor to […]
The BMJ Today: Women’s satisfaction with pain relief during labour
Good morning. Here’s what is new in The BMJ. Research • Analgesics in labour. Are women more satisfied with pain relief obtained through a patient controlled device delivering remifentanil or […]
Elizabeth Loder on the proliferation of medical research reporting guidelines: A checklist too far?
If reporting guidelines and checklists are the answer, what is the problem? That’s easy: their development was motivated by the realization that critical information was vague, missing, or misreported in […]
The BMJ Today: Expanding, limiting, and personalising healthcare
Research • Does early discharge increase the risk of complications and death? A cohort study from Sweden in patients over 50 with hip fracture found an increased risk of death […]
The BMJ Today: Tuberculosis, technology, and the art of good communication
News • Andrew Dowson, director of headache services at King’s College Hospital, London, has been suspended from the UK medical register for four months for a “serious breach of professional standards” […]
The BMJ Today: Salty sputum and self dialysis for Swedes
Research What are the long term effects of multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation for patients with chronic low back pain? News • Chicago born Frances Glessner Lee (pictured), the “mother of CSI” […]
The BMJ Today: Latest news on statins data and the UK government comes under fire (again)
News Statins: The Cholesterol Treatment Trials Collaboration plans to produce tabulated results of all side effects recorded in 30 randomised controlled trials of statins by the end of this year. […]