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GP deserts: Data show chronic shortage of family doctors in England
Understanding the NHS pension: what do doctors need to know?
Three NHS pension experts answer doctors’ questions about NHS pensions, from what early career doctors need to know to the impact of career breaks
Understanding the NHS pension: what do doctors need to know?
Three NHS pension experts answer doctors’ questions about NHS pensions, from what early career doctors need to know to the impact of career breaks
Student loans: Young doctors are saddled with six figure debt and lifelong repayment in “broken” system
Doctors who face spiralling student loans believe that they may never own a house or have children, the BMA has warned
Student loans: Young doctors are saddled with six figure debt and lifelong repayment in “broken” system
Doctors who face spiralling student loans believe that they may never own a house or have children, the BMA has warned
Unpaid overtime in the NHS is falling—what this means for the workforce
Unpaid overtime has long underpinned NHS service delivery, but recent data show it is declining, raising questions for workforce planning
Unpaid overtime in the NHS is falling—what this means for the workforce
Unpaid overtime has long underpinned NHS service delivery, but recent data show it is declining, raising questions for workforce planning
Clinical negligence: Injured children can claim lost earnings for full healthy working life, judges rule
Measles: 34 new cases confirmed and children admitted to hospital amid London outbreak
Pitting nurses and doctors against each other will not help solve workforce problems
Global bone cement shortage: NHS could cancel or delay knee and hip operations
The academic arms race in medical recruitment—why being a good doctor is not always enough
The 49 000 staff question: how long can the NHS run on unpaid overtime?
Trump administration is expanding global gag rule to export its ideology worldwide
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News
UKRI changes explained: an upheaval in priorities and a “pause” in funding applications
Weight loss drug waste: what happens to the Ozempic pens?
Sudan conflict has “hallmarks of genocide,” UN team warns
“Corruption” in UK’s overseas training scheme is debated by Pakistani MPs as High Commission calls for “urgent action”
FDA reverses stance on Moderna vaccine
Medical news in brief: NHS will pay for US drug price deal, Israel accepts Gaza death toll, GP records shared, and other stories
MyChart: doctors are left frustrated and patients panic as NHS trusts roll out hospital records app
Medical regulator appeals decision clearing doctor of support for terrorism
Study claiming that substituting nurses for doctors is safe and effective is flawed, say experts
Research
Identifying prior evidence for new trials (REVEAL): guidance for clinical researchers
Menopausal hormone therapy and long term mortality
Non-prospective trial registration in clinical trials submitted to The BMJ
How and when to use causal and associational language
Vitamin D supplementation before in vitro fertilisation in women with polycystic ovary syndrome
Standard chemoradiotherapy with concurrent and adjuvant camrelizumab in patients with high risk nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Testing menstrual blood for human papillomavirus during cervical cancer screening in China
Time trends in the male to female ratio for autism incidence
Comment
Boys at risk of radicalisation must be approached with compassion, not suspicion
Rammya Mathew: Longevity medicine—innovation or excess?
Evidence for grief interventions . . . and other research
Clarity is needed about liability when medical AI fails
Experiential learning for medical students would help to tackle homeless health inequalities
Scarlett McNally: England’s cancer plan makes big commitments but underplays the small changes we can all make
WHO Pandemic Agreement is only the beginning: strengthening implementation to protect global health
Helen Salisbury: The right to refer
International medical graduate (IMG) recruitment and UK workforce planning need urgent reform
Education
Psychedelic medicine: mechanisms, evidence, and translation to practice
Linking my chronic pain with trauma
Assessment and management of galactorrhoea
Tapering of antidepressants . . . and other stories
Zosteriform nodules and plaques on the trunk
Non-traumatic knee pain in an adolescent boy
Evaluation and management of chest pain from cardiovascular causes in female patients
Easily Missed? Giant cell arteritis
The Fermi paradox . . . and other stories
Practical Prescribing: Potassium sparing diuretics
Bullous rash in end stage renal failure
Chest pain and shortness of breath after acupuncture
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BMJ Medicine
Developing a new albuminuria-free risk prediction equation for kidney failure in patients with chronic kidney disease
Feb 2
Outcome specific optimal systolic blood pressure targets in high risk patients, balancing cardiovascular benefits, renal risks, and cancer prevention
Jan 29
Physical activity types, variety, and mortality: results from two prospective cohort studies
Jan 20
Test accuracy of glomerular filtration rate estimation with creatinine and cystatin C in adults with moderate chronic kidney disease
Jan 21
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