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? […]
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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 […]
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. […]
The BMJ Today: FGM, GULP, and #NoMoreGames
ANALYSIS Too much technology: The BMJ’s overdiagnosis theme begins today with Bjørn Morten Hofmann, who argues that we are medicalising ordinary human conditions, and we need to rethink our reflex […]
The BMJ Today: Sugar, HRT, and a neonate with a rash
• There are a number of responses to The BMJ’s latest investigation into links between public health scientists and food companies. Michelle Harvie and Louise Gorman say, “Industry funding is […]
The BMJ Today: Sugar—a bittersweet topic
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, writing this blog is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to get. This Friday the 13th, I get sugar, a bitter […]