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Martha’s rule and patients’ rights to a second opinion
Recognising and managing osteoarthritis flares in primary care
How can primary care clinicians frame consultations to help people with osteoarthritis consider and understand their own flares?
Recognising and managing osteoarthritis flares in primary care
How can primary care clinicians frame consultations to help people with osteoarthritis consider and understand their own flares?
The climate emergency could be the ultimate health opportunity, says WHO’s Maria Neira
Climate change could be the “ultimate” public health opportunity—but we need politicians to act, says the WHO’s Maria Neira
The climate emergency could be the ultimate health opportunity, says WHO’s Maria Neira
Climate change could be the “ultimate” public health opportunity—but we need politicians to act, says the WHO’s Maria Neira
Mortality risks associated with floods in 761 communities worldwide
The risks of all cause, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortality increased for up to 60 days after exposure to flood, finds this study
Mortality risks associated with floods in 761 communities worldwide
The risks of all cause, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortality increased for up to 60 days after exposure to flood, finds this study
SAS and LE doctors need targeted support, says GMC
US public health agency recommends prophylactic doxycycline to reduce STIs
US spends more than twice as much on health as similar countries for worse outcomes, finds report
Early versus delayed antihypertensive treatment in patients with acute ischaemic stroke
How climate change is affecting child development
Lessons on planetary health from traditional Quilombola communities of the Brazilian Amazon
To tackle the climate crisis, we need to transform systems according to ancestral original instructions
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US drug companies will negotiate prices of 10 drugs while continuing to challenge the process
Sixty seconds on . . . long cold
GLP-1 agonists linked to adverse gastrointestinal events in weight loss patients
Poor GP access may be driving people in deprived areas in England to use emergency departments, analysis suggests
Covid-19 inquiry: Ministers abandoned public health principles during pandemic, says BMA chief
US dietary committee is plagued with “high risk conflicts of interest,” report finds
GP’s mistakes led to patient losing sight after a stroke, says ombudsman
PM is criticised for conference speech comments on striking doctors
Lucy Letby case: Police investigate hospital for corporate manslaughter over baby deaths
Research
Interactive effects of ambient fine particulate matter and ozone on daily mortality in 372 cities
Association between changes in carbohydrate intake and long term weight changes
Association between recently raised anticholinergic burden and risk of acute cardiovascular events
Suboptimal gestational weight gain and neonatal outcomes in low and middle income countries: individual participant data meta-analysis
Efficacy and safety of an inactivated virus-particle vaccine for SARS-CoV-2
Visits by nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the USA
Non-erosive gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and oesophageal adenocarcinoma
Venous thromboembolism with use of hormonal contraception and NSAIDs
Comment
Traffic may be as important as industrial farming for destroying wildlife
Balancing climate anxiety with hope: learning from collective climate activism
Climate emergency: Treat Earth as an ancestor, not a commodity
Communities in Northern Canada are feeling the health system implications of climate breakdown
Catalysing multi-stakeholder collaboration to tackle climate-related health emergencies in Africa
Bangladesh is facing the consequences of the climate emergency
Air pollution and asthma: “Going out for a walk can be a bit of a gamble”
Air pollution should be listed on death certificates
Climate emergency and political will—reaching beyond human usefulness
Education
Struggling in the heat: what I need to know about my medication
Tackling climate change: the pivotal role of clinicians
Taking a collateral history: the missing piece of the puzzle
Looking but not seeing
How to identify and manage sports related concussions in primary care
Advances in the care of breast cancer survivors
Glucose monitoring and glucose lowering agents for children and young people with type 2 diabetes
Diagnosis and management of sacrococcygeal pilonidal disease in primary care
Management of epilepsy during pregnancy and lactation
Pyoderma gangrenosum
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
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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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Post-viral olfactory loss and parosmia
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New and emerging treatments for myasthenia gravis
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