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The deadly legacy of a stem cell charlatan

The deadly legacy of a stem cell charlatan

Paolo Macchiarini misled the world over his breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, but why did most of the institutions that supported him bear no responsibility, ask John Rasko and Carl Power

Editor's Choice∙Retract or be damned: a dangerous moment for science and the public News∙Paolo Macchiarini: Disgraced surgeon is sentenced to 30 months in prison

HRT for treating menopause: known unknowns

Over the past 50 years, HRT and the menopause have been the subject of much research, media hype, and confusion. Nat Leaf reports from The BMJ’s Known Unknowns webinar

feature | Jun 22

HRT for treating menopause: known unknowns

Over the past 50 years, HRT and the menopause have been the subject of much research, media hype, and confusion. Nat Leaf reports from The BMJ’s Known Unknowns webinar

feature

Jun 22

Medical plastic closure using skin shield after shoulder replacement surgery

Association between surgeon volume and patient outcomes after elective shoulder replacement surgery

Patients treated by surgeons who average over 10 shoulder replacements a year have a lower risk of serious complications, finds this study

research | Jun 21

Association between surgeon volume and patient outcomes after elective shoulder replacement surgery

Patients treated by surgeons who average over 10 shoulder replacements a year have a lower risk of serious complications, finds this study

research

Jun 21

What is my risk, doctor? How to convey disease risk and treatment effects

This article outlines how to convey the benefits, harms, and burden of interventions to patients and society in an informative way

practice | Jun 16

What is my risk, doctor? How to convey disease risk and treatment effects

This article outlines how to convey the benefits, harms, and burden of interventions to patients and society in an informative way

practice

Jun 16

Junior doctors in England will walk out for five days in the longest strike in NHS history

news | Jun 23

Health inequities continue to drive the public health threat of mpox

opinion | Jun 23

Associations between modest reductions in kidney function and adverse outcomes in young adults

research | Jun 23

Flu deaths in UK hit five year high last winter

news | Jun 22

The omission of children from the UK’s antimicrobial strategy must be tackled

opinion | Jun 22

Helen Salisbury: Comprehensive care and patient demand

opinion | Jun 20

The BMJ’s Commission on the Future of the NHS

editor's choice | May 4

Latest articles

The BMJ has launched a series of articles to examine how evidence was used to shape the UK’s response to the pandemic. Martin McKee, Kara Hanson, and Kamran Abbasi launch the series

editorial

Aug 31

How covid-19 spreads: narratives, counter narratives, and social dramas

analysis

Aug 31

Understanding and neutralising covid-19 misinformation and disinformation

analysis | Nov 23

Role of mathematical modelling in future pandemic response policy

analysis | Sep 15

Role of scientific advice in covid-19 policy

analysis | Sep 7

Covid-19 in the UK: policy on children and schools

analysis | Aug 31

BMJ Medicine

Inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 case rates by ethnicity, religion, measures of socioeconomic position, English proficiency, and self-reported disability

People queue to receive their Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre inside the Brighton Centre, Sussex, as the UK continues in a third lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Picture date: Tuesday February 9, 2021.

New research finds that SARS-CoV-2 case rates varied across different sociodemographic groups, particularly ethnicity and religion, in the second and third waves of the covid-19 pandemic

Apr 3

Reproductive outcomes in women and men conceived by assisted reproductive technologies

Artificial insemination illustration, blue background.

Men and women who were conceived by assisted reproductive technology and become parents do not appear to be at increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes

Apr 5

Tracking the progress of inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 infections into the third covid-19 wave

Apr 3

Impact of covid-19 vaccination on long covid

Feb 28

The interplay between inflammatory cytokines and cardiometabolic disease

Feb 14

Clinical Outcomes Following SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Myocarditis

Feb 1