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Communication of anticancer drug benefits and related uncertainties to patients and clinicians

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Communication of anticancer drug benefits and related uncertainties to patients and clinicians

Important information about cancer drug benefits, and related uncertainties, is frequently omitted from official prescription drug information sources for clinicians and patients in Europe, finds this analysis

Editorial∙Communicating the benefits and harms of anticancer drugs

A healthcare worker on a break in India during the covid-19 pandemic

Support for clinicians with moral loss after the pandemic

Clare Delany and Rosalind McDougall argue more attention should be given to moral distress as part of health system recovery plans

analysis | Mar 30

Support for clinicians with moral loss after the pandemic

Clare Delany and Rosalind McDougall argue more attention should be given to moral distress as part of health system recovery plans

A healthcare worker on a break in India during the covid-19 pandemic

Mar 30

A family in a mouldy home

The doctor forcing landlords to act on mouldy homes

The tragic death of 2 year old Awaab Ishak raised questions about the medical community’s role in health problems related to housing. One doctor is taking that role very seriously, finds Chris Baraniuk

feature | Mar 30

The doctor forcing landlords to act on mouldy homes

The tragic death of 2 year old Awaab Ishak raised questions about the medical community’s role in health problems related to housing. One doctor is taking that role very seriously, finds Chris Baraniuk

A family in a mouldy home

Mar 30

Photo of a healthy diet

Comparison of seven popular dietary programmes and risk of mortality

Karam and colleagues found that Mediterranean dietary programmes were superior to minimal intervention for mortality outcomes, non-fatal myocardial infarction, and stroke

research | Mar 29

Comparison of seven popular dietary programmes and risk of mortality

Karam and colleagues found that Mediterranean dietary programmes were superior to minimal intervention for mortality outcomes, non-fatal myocardial infarction, and stroke

Photo of a healthy diet

Mar 29

How can we make better use of ethnicity data to improve healthcare services?

opinion | Mar 30

FDA approves over the counter sale of naloxone to reverse drug overdoses

news | Mar 30

Patient centred care: filling in the gaps

editor's choice | Mar 30

Satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level ever recorded, survey shows

news | Mar 29

David Oliver: Reflections from a hospital bed

opinion | Mar 29

Cholera makes a comeback amid calls to boost vaccine production

feature | Mar 29

India rejects application to extend patent on TB drug bedaquiline

news | Mar 28

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Why I . . . do combat sports

Experts condemn government’s decision to criminalise nitrous oxide as “not evidence based”

Dengue and chikungunya cases surge as climate change spreads arboviral diseases to new regions

Invest in health workforce or risk collapse, WHO warns governments

Drug resistant fungus is spreading in US long term care facilities and hospitals, warns CDC

Nigerian politician, his wife, and a doctor are guilty of organ trafficking to UK

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Research

Effectiveness and safety of analgesic medicines for adults with low back pain

Estimated impact of withdrawing primary care financial incentives on quality of care

Maternal opioid treatment after delivery and risk of adverse infant outcomes

Comparative effectiveness of BNT162b2 versus mRNA-1273 covid-19 vaccine boosting

Comparison of mental health symptoms before and during the covid-19 pandemic

Ionising radiation and cardiovascular disease

Molnupiravir and risk of hospital admission or death in adults with covid-19

Inequities in surgical outcomes by race and sex in the United States

US public investment in development of mRNA covid-19 vaccines

Comment

Europe’s cost of living crisis jeopardises medication adherence

Scarlett McNally: Obesity is a community issue, not just an individual one

Helen Salisbury: Taking risks with our health service

When science goes wrong—misrepresentation, coercion, and undue influence when paying research participants

Punishable by death—how the US anti-abortion movement ended up proposing the death penalty

Social prescribing in the NHS—is it too soon to judge its value?

Time is running out to resolve the NHS workforce crisis

Quality improvement in primary care

John Launer: When good things happen in bad times

Education

How to support the sexual wellbeing of older patients

Do not diagnose or routinely treat asthma or COPD without pulmonary function testing

What is the role of clinically assisted hydration in the last days of life?

Cognitive impairment after cancer treatment

Aortic stenosis

Continuous glucose monitoring

So you want to be a writer? An introduction to BMJ Student

Orthostatic tachycardia after covid-19

Help! My trusted doctor is retiring

Interpreting an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in people of black ethnicities in the UK

NHS strikes

Junior doctor strikes: Leaders urge government to drop preconditions and negotiate

Junior doctors on strike

Junior doctors in England began a 72 hour walkout on 13 March in their ongoing dispute over pay and conditions

Mar 14

Strikes are a grim prospect, but a broken NHS is worse

Doctors demonstration over pay

Many junior doctors who are striking fear for the NHS's future, writes Jennifer Darlow

Mar 12

Junior doctors’ strike—what do medical students need to know?

student | Mar 10

Strikes, patient outcomes, and the cost of failing to act

analysis | Mar 10

Staff survey shows plummeting pay satisfaction for junior doctors with strike looming

news | Mar 10

Consultants in England are “ready to strike,” as 86% vote in favour of action

news | Mar 6

BMJ Medicine

Association between Coeliac disease and Cardiovascular Disease: A prospective analysis in UK Biobank

Human large intestine tissue under microscope view.

An observational study that looks at whether people with coeliac disease have a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease

Jan 30

Impact of covid-19 vaccination on long covid

A woman has the covid vaccine

Some beneficial effects of covid vaccines on long covid are likely but estimating the size of the effect currently remains a challenge

Feb 28

The interplay between inflammatory cytokines and cardiometabolic disease

Feb 14

Clinical Outcomes Following SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Myocarditis

Feb 1

Effect of covid-19 vaccination on long covid: systematic review

Feb 28

Efficacy of first dose of covid-19 vaccine versus no vaccination on symptoms of patients with long covid

Feb 28

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Association between rainfall and diagnoses of joint or back pain: retrospective claims analysis

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Long term gluten consumption in adults without celiac disease and risk of coronary heart disease: prospective cohort study

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Junior doctors will strike for 96 hours from 11 April

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