Hospitals are currently in the eye of a covid-19 storm, driven by a rapid rise in community infection rates and more new emergency cases presenting daily. But before the current surge there were concerns about covid infection acquired or identified during a hospital stay. In October the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) issued a report on the factors behind hospital acquired covid-19…
As a way to mark our 10 year anniversary since launching our patient and public partnership strategy (https://www.bmj.com/campaign/patient-partnership) we are going to publish a patient…
### What you need to know Double vision, or diplopia, may be the first sign of sight or life threatening pathology. A thorough, accurate first…
Argentina’s healthcare system is under threat from the dengue crisis and its president’s systematic dismantling of science. Martín de Ambrosio reports The worst dengue outbreak…
An evaluation of the NHS digital weight management programme shows that people who completed it lost 3.9 kg over 12 weeks. When everyone who started…
The number of adverse impacts on health related to extreme weather and climate events is continuing to rise in Europe, an EU report1 has found.…
Cardiologist Tharusha Gunawardena tells Helen Jones about his passion for Brazilian jiujitsu “I’m talking with a bit of a lisp because I got hit in…
Canadians support it, public health demands it, now policy makers must deliver it Canada’s universal healthcare system, often referred to as Medicare, provides universal, public…
NHS England is exploring ways it can reduce the amount of statutory and mandatory training that doctors undertake, to free up clinicians’ time to care…
Drug regulators in several African countries have recalled a batch of Johnson & Johnson children’s cough syrup after officials in Nigeria reported high levels of…
Ministers must do more to anticipate shortages of medicines in the UK, which have become shockingly severe and have become a “new normal” since Brexit,…
