We are all familiar with the two McEvedy and Beard papers which appeared in the January !970 BMJ. Less familiar is the third paper published...
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3026
BMJ working with Swiss Re: In 2018, The BMJ and Swiss Re Institute worked together to publish a landmark series of articles on the science and...
This post has been copied and some following posts moved from this thread: Possibility of ME or PVFS after COVID-19, Long Covid "Paul Garner:...
Stephen Lock, my predecessor as editor of the BMJ, taught me always to remember that journals would soon ‘be wrapping up next week’s fish and...
Recently, Simon Stevens, the NHS chief executive, criticised celebrities and wellness companies for promoting unproven and potentially harmful...
https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498
Abstract Objective To determine whether fast driving, luxury car ownership, and leniency by police officers differ across medical specialties....
This article was originally behind a paywall. [MEDIA] More than 125 journal publishers and scientific and medical societies have signed a...
Dear Father Christmas, I do apologise for bothering you. I know December is fiendishly busy, and how you manage to conjure such good cheer in it,...
Few journals have been more admirable than the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) and some of its sister publications under the BMJ brand...
https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000525.full Full text is open. Abstract Objectives Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis...
Activism and new ways of getting input from a much wider range of patients and communities are needed to advance patient and public partnership in...
Patient involvement in research—a brief history There is a well-described mismatch between the research that is done on a particular condition...
David Oliver: Sepsis—what’s behind the “hype”? A letter was published in the Lancet last week, entitled “Sepsis hysteria: excess hype and...
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6095.full Extract: My concern is that hypermobile EDS, often self diagnosed, sits alongside chronic fatigue...
Liyang Pan: Medical education - the tyranny of guidelines and the single best answer Oct. 1st. Simplification has a place in communicating...
The editor's choice is an article by Fiona Godlee, editor in chief.... As miracle cures are hard to come by, any claims that a treatment is 100%...
I have sent the following letter to Dr Fiona Godlee, editorial director of BMJ, about Archives of Disease in Childhood’s egregious decision to...
To maintain efficiency in medical research we have to facilitate and empower participants, patients, and the public to recognise waste and take...
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