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Medical education is still complicit in poor healt...
Zeshan Qureshi, paediatrician, UKMedical education is failing to prepare clinicians to care for an ethnically diverse population, writes…
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Vincent Marks: pioneering researcher into insulin ...
- BY John Illman
John IllmanLondon, UKjohn{at}jicmedia.orgPhoto credit: Jane AllisonVincent Marks was the star expert witness who helped to secure the conviction…
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Hearing the patient’s voice in AI-enhanced healt...
Kate Womersley, research fellow, core trainee in psychiatry12, KWM (Bill Fulford, emeritus professor of philosophy and mental health3,…
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Time to de-implement urine dipsticks in older adul...
Jerome A Leis, infectious diseases physician, Katrina L Piggott, geriatricianSunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJerome.leis{at}sunnybrook.caWe thank Zhang…
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Pharmacy health checks and contraceptive service c...
- BY Matthew Limb
More patients in England could get care directly from community pharmacists, after a government agreement on access to…
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New hospitals highly unlikely to be delivered on t...
MPs from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee have said they have “no confidence” that the government’s…
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Sharp Scratch episode 98: Medical milestones
- BY Eabha Lynn
Éabha Lynn, BMJ editorial scholarIn this episode of Sharp Scratch, we considered those times that felt like important…
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UK regulator approves “groundbreaking” gene tr...
UK regulators have approved a “world first” gene treatment for treating sickle cell disease and transfusion dependent β…
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England’s diabetes prevention programme has deli...
Patients referred to the NHS’s national diabetes prevention programme in England have seen improvements in key cardiovascular risk…
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Nature and climate crisis: adaptations need to “...
Woody Caan, retired professorial fellow, Royal Society for Public Health1, Candice Howarth, head of local climate action21Duxford, Cambridge,…
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Semaglutide reduces risk of major cardiovascular e...
- BY Jacqui Wise
A weekly injection of semaglutide (Wegovy) resulted in a 20% reduction in the risk of death from major…
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Covid inquiry: What we learnt this week
This week the UK’s covid inquiry heard from senior advisers and civil servants who were at the heart…
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