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Implementation of a high sensitivity cardiac troponin I assay and risk of myocardial infarction or death at five years
Helen Salisbury: Training in the medical model
Physician associates and anaesthetic associates are expected to “learn on the job,” but we must be alert to the dangers of experience without training, says Helen Salisbury
Helen Salisbury: Training in the medical model
Physician associates and anaesthetic associates are expected to “learn on the job,” but we must be alert to the dangers of experience without training, says Helen Salisbury
Covid inquiry: The week that science became both bamboozling and a millstone
Last week the UK’s senior scientific and medical advisers faced questions about the UK’s response to the pandemic. Gareth Iacobucci reports
Covid inquiry: The week that science became both bamboozling and a millstone
Last week the UK’s senior scientific and medical advisers faced questions about the UK’s response to the pandemic. Gareth Iacobucci reports
Can I treat an acquaintance?
It can be tempting to offer advice to people you know and who are not close friends or family, but there are things to consider, Abi Rimmer hears
Can I treat an acquaintance?
It can be tempting to offer advice to people you know and who are not close friends or family, but there are things to consider, Abi Rimmer hears
Scarlett McNally: Rethinking ageing can help the NHS recover
New Zealand’s new government says it will repeal groundbreaking anti-smoking law
Pfizer sues Poland over unclaimed covid vaccines
Health is the engine to drive more urgent action on climate change, says WHO
Debate on associates is affecting their health and wellbeing, NHS England warns
Physician associates and doctor apprenticeships can be part of the future of medicine
How African countries can prepare for the next pandemic
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Swine flu: UK reports its first human case of A(H1N2)v strain
England’s GP leader calls for end to “ridiculous” bureaucracy
Long term investment could avert 20 000 cancer deaths a year by 2040, says charity
Accident and Emergency doctor who altered notes after failing to check patient’s blood results before discharge is struck off
Halt plans to restrict foreign workers joining the NHS and care services, say leaders
Consultants in England to vote on new pay deal
Deprivation and learning disabilities linked to increased risk of dying from sepsis, study finds
Sixty seconds on . . . red wine headache
Rise in people found dead and decomposed suggests breakdown of support networks, say researchers
Scrap contracts that allow private firms to “play fast and loose” with GP surgeries, say LMCs
Research
Association between patient-surgeon gender concordance and mortality after surgery
ROB-ME: a tool for assessing risk of bias due to missing evidence in systematic reviews with meta-analysis
Intravascular imaging guided versus coronary angiography guided percutaneous coronary intervention
Treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms in men in primary care using a conservative intervention
Autism intervention meta-analysis of early childhood studies
Effectiveness of the live zoster vaccine during the 10 years following vaccination
Effects of a multimodal intervention in primary care to reduce second line antibiotic prescriptions for urinary tract infections in women
Pyrotinib versus placebo in combination with trastuzumab and docetaxel in patients with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer
Association of DCIS size and margin status with risk of developing breast cancer post-treatment
Comment
Pandemic preparedness: is the UK ready for a pandemic that affects children?
Medical associate professionals: we need calm heads and a pause
Calls for cervical screening should treat women like adults
Staff wellbeing is more important than ever
Medical education is still complicit in poor healthcare outcomes for ethnic minority patients
Tom Nolan’s research reviews—23 November 2023
UK policy response to female genital mutilation needs urgent rethink
Mandatory pay gap reporting is key to achieving workforce gender equality in the global health sector
John Launer: Reflective writing and feeding the monster
Hearing the patient’s voice in AI-enhanced healthcare
Health equity: we need political action not performative promises
Education
Developmental dysplasia of the hip in infants and children
Cirrhosis in over 16s: assessment and management—updated summary of NICE guidance
Sharp Scratch episode 99: A problem shared is a problem halved
The power of the small stuff
Advances in the understanding and management of alcohol-related liver disease
Chronic prostatitis (chronic pelvic pain syndrome)
Early, intense therapy for language problems after a stroke is linked to the greatest benefits
Proton pump inhibitors
Update to living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19
Otitis media with effusion in under 12s: summary of updated NICE guidance
Weight regain does not eliminate the long term benefits of weight management programmes
Medical doctor apprenticeships
NHS workforce plan aims to train thousands more doctors and open up apprenticeship schemes
David Oliver: Shortening and narrowing training won’t solve the medical workforce crisis
What are medical doctor degree apprenticeships? A brand new route into medicine
Apprenticeships only part of the answer to widening participation in medicine, says BMA
BMJ Medicine
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one global health emergency
Nov 7
Advances in the management of type 2 diabetes in adults
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Advances in mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke
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Association between perinatal mortality and morbidity and customised and non-customised birthweight centiles in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Wales, and England
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