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Gestational age at birth and health outcomes: obstetric decisions matter

January 14, 2021

The NHS is a tough place to work for all of us

January 14, 2021

Conflicts of interest among the UK government’s covid-19 advisers: what has the configuration of SAGE got to do with it?

January 13, 2021

Being a good enough doctor: we need to talk about acceptable failure rates

January 13, 2021

Lateral flow tests need low false positives for antibodies and low false negatives for virus

January 13, 2021

Children’s centres are the foundation of social regeneration

January 8, 2021

Focus on education and wellbeing to aid specialty recruitment

January 8, 2021

Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland response to: “Have large increases in fast track referrals improved bowel cancer outcomes in the UK?”

January 8, 2021

Reforming medical education: student experience during the covid-19 pandemic

January 7, 2021

Human donor milk also protects against severe retinopathy of prematurity

January 7, 2021

We need to collect data on race, ethnicity, and community in pandemics

January 7, 2021

NICE’s approach to measuring value

January 5, 2021

Division of tongue tie: an assault on a baby

January 5, 2021

Division of tongue tie: surgical complications

January 5, 2021

Engagement with Alcoholics Anonymous helps abstinence

January 5, 2021

Medical community has a responsibility to promote equality

December 31, 2020

The language of ethnicity: blunt, contrived terms should be abandoned

December 31, 2020

Mass population screening for SARS-CoV-2 and false positives—why Liverpool shows we have a problem

December 31, 2020

Food banks and infant formula: formula is critical for mothers with HIV

December 29, 2020

Danish mask study: masks, media, fact checkers, and the interpretation of scientific evidence

December 23, 2020

Unwarranted optimism about vaccine efficacy

December 23, 2020

Danish mask study: comparing apples and oranges

December 23, 2020

Food banks and formula: maximising support for families in need

December 18, 2020

Lockdowns don’t kill women, abusive men do

December 15, 2020

Covid-19 mass testing: throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

December 10, 2020

Parosmia: treatment, mechanism, and types

December 8, 2020

Identifying clinically extremely vulnerable people and asking them to shield should not be taken lightly

December 7, 2020

Long covid: doctors must assess and investigate patients properly

December 2, 2020

The personal impact of covid-19 on trainees

December 1, 2020

Investment in training, evidence based treatment, and research are necessary to prevent future deaths in eating disorders

December 1, 2020

A mindful response to doctors’ mental health

December 1, 2020

General practice public relations storm: shaped in broadcast, fixed in narrowcast

November 30, 2020

Pandemic communications: follow the science but lead with psychology

November 30, 2020

Empathy for those working in other disciplines

November 26, 2020

Scientific divisions on covid-19: time for open debate

November 25, 2020

Need for ethical framework to guide mass testing for asymptomatic covid-19

November 24, 2020

Covid-19 vaccine: we are sleepwalking into a massive prospective cohort study

November 24, 2020

Do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation: detoxifying the conversation about values and needs

November 24, 2020

Covid-19’s known unknowns: population shared decision making

November 23, 2020

Covid-19: Should the UK mandate more stringent workplace protection for older people?

November 23, 2020

History repeating itself for ethnic minority doctors

November 20, 2020

Racial equality in the NHS: we need objective data to support subjective experience

November 20, 2020

Effect of video conference clinics on medical education

November 19, 2020

Video consultations will increase health inequality without the correct infrastructure put in place

November 19, 2020

Ludwig’s angina: infected teeth must be extracted

November 18, 2020

The BMJ,’s political stance—where is the balance?

November 18, 2020

Covid-19 vaccine trials: we must preserve the ends when communicating the means

November 17, 2020

Covid-19 communication—a matter of life and death?

November 16, 2020

Covid-19 test and trace: localised approach urgently needed

November 16, 2020

NHS limits: we’re heading for a two tier system

November 11, 2020

Older lives are valuable but not equal

November 11, 2020

Telemedicine: don’t discount the value of in-person GP clinics to the medical trainee

November 10, 2020

Telemedicine: missing the “while I’m here” questions

November 10, 2020

Why telemedicine diminishes the doctor-patient relationship

November 10, 2020

Doctors’ polls on assisted dying are irrelevant

November 10, 2020

Assisted dying survey: support differs for physician assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia

November 9, 2020

Video consulting contributes to carbon neutral healthcare

November 6, 2020

Healthcare should not cost us the Earth

November 6, 2020

Towards a carbon neutral NHS: plant based catering, carbon footprint of all procedures, and embedding the commitment

November 5, 2020

Uncertain evolution of untreated coronary syndromes during covid-19 pandemic

November 4, 2020

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