Meta-analyses can be dull reads, but, when done properly, they are the best summaries of available evidence for doctors to base their decisions on. Today we see two new meta-analyses […]
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The BMJ Today: Baby doctors refuse to be babied
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance on home births attracted a flurry of media attention when it was first published at the end of last year, […]
The BMJ Today: Second UK Ebola patient identified, and how 3D printing could affect clinical practice
The BMJ has been tracking the developments of the Ebola virus outbreak throughout 2014, and it continues to be in the news as the year draws to a close. Today, […]
The BMJ Today: A dignified death at last for brain dead pregnant woman
Doctors in Ireland must be breathing a sigh of relief after judges ruled that a brain dead pregnant woman should be allowed to die. The case makes for grim reading. […]
The BMJ Today: Parkinson’s disease, broken noses, and the diet wars
Pressure on emergency departments reaches its peak during the winter months, and the festive period puts the cherry on the Christmas cake. Data published last week show that the percentage […]
The BMJ Today: All I want for Christmas is . . . brussel sprouts
‘Twas the Monday before Christmas and all through BMA house, Not an editor was typing, nor clicking a mouse. The Christmas issue already hung on the website with care, In […]
The BMJ Today: Hidden holiday horrors
Are you ready to switch off the email and settle into some quiet time with family? Switch on the old classic cartoons for the kids and permit them an extra […]
The BMJ Today: All I want for Christmas is a chocolate Aneurin Bevan
In the past year you may have read BMJ Confidential, the weekly column that grills healthcare professionals on their backgrounds and inspiration, earliest ambitions, career mistakes, and guilty pleasures. For […]
The BMJ Today: Why diets don’t work and the rehabilitation of saturated fat
Depending on your world view, our obsession with food at Christmas (witness packed supermarket aisles, and the acres of menu ideas churned out by newspapers) is either a glorious, well […]
The BMJ Today: “Your husband can donate his tools” and other Christmas highlights
What do you do if you have to treat a very sick child in intensive care whose parents do not speak English—and there are no human translators available? What do […]