• Can Gurinder Singh Grewal, the new president of the Punjab Medical Council, clean up medicine in Punjab? He is being praised for his anticorruption stance by the media, and his […]
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The BMJ Today: The safety of SSRIs during pregnancy, controversial trade deals, and bow legs and knock knees
• Specific SSRIs and birth defects The association between maternal use of antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), during pregnancy and birth defects has been the topic of much discussion […]
The BMJ Today: Money and medicine
• A report by the Kings Fund finds that “clinicians can do more to deliver better health outcomes at a lower cost.” The report points out examples of successful cost-savings and efficiency, […]
The BMJ Today: Which paper should The BMJ be most proud of publishing?
• To mark 20 years of being online we asked 20 readers from the UK and around the world—including Jane Dacre, David Haslam, Jocalyn Clarke, and Samiran Nundy—to nominate their top […]
The BMJ Today: Missed appointments, mandatory vaccination, and saying sorry
• The stretch on NHS resources may reach patient’s own pockets, the health secretary has announced. Speaking on BBC1 Question Time on 2 July, Jeremy Hunt emphasised that the introduction […]
The BMJ Today: The heat is on
• Amid record breaking heat across the globe, including Europe and the UK, Fiona Godlee’s editor’s choice on climate change could not have been timed better. Citing the Pope’s recent encyclical on […]
The BMJ Today: Too much of a good thing?
• A new research paper shows that 110 highly prolific authors contributed to one third of the evidence base for glucose lowering treatment; of these, 44% were company employees and 56% were […]
The BMJ Today: Healthcare in war
• Who is taking care of civilians and fighters’ medical needs in parts of Iraq and Syria taken over by the Islamic state? Duncan Gardham reports that doctors have been […]
The BMJ Today: Sex workers in Bangladesh, welfare advice, and incentives for behavioural change
• Female sex workers in Bangladesh In a feature published on thebmj.com today, Jocalyn Clark provides a moving account of the plight of female sex workers in Bangladesh. With effectively no […]
The BMJ Today: Spot Diagnosis—a new type of education article in The BMJ
• The BMJ has just published the first of a new breed of articles in the education section, namely in endgames. This new type of article is called Spot Diagnosis, […]