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What do we know about covid-19’s effects on the gut? | The BMJ
May 1, 2024 · Not just a respiratory infection, covid can cause symptoms throughout the body. Gastrointestinal symptoms are common in both acute and long covid, with gut issues often persisting long after initial infection. Katharine Lang investigates Lack of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, and abdominal pain. These may not be the symptoms people expect with covid, but around 50% of people experience ...
NHS negligence claims: £2.7bn cost prompts renewed calls for …
Jul 21, 2023 · Payments for clinical negligence in the NHS in England rose by 9.5% in 2022-23 to almost £2.7bn, according to the latest report from NHS Resolution, the body that handles claims.1 The increase, driven by a rise in the number of high value claims, has prompted renewed calls for reform of clinical negligence litigation. The figure reflects …
Lucy Letby case: what happens now? | The BMJ
Oct 3, 2024 · A court judged nurse Lucy Letby guilty of seven murders and seven attempted murders in August 2023. But in the year since then questions have been raised about the evidence used to convict her. With a new statutory inquiry now sitting, Chris Stokel-Walker recaps what has happened with the case and what its wider implications are It was the most heinous of crimes. Nurse Lucy Letby was found ...
Why does demand for medical imaging keep rising? | The BMJ
Nov 2, 2022 · Demand for medical imaging is rising at a faster rate than most other aspects of healthcare and at a speed with which NHS radiology services cannot currently cope. 1 We radiologists must accept some responsibility for this ourselves—as technological advances result in ever more detailed images, we identify more and more findings of uncertain ...
Seven days in medicine: 18-24 September 2024 | The BMJ
Sep 26, 2024 · The charity’s projections show that England will have around 17.2 million urgent suspected cancer referrals in the next five years. In the first six months of 2024 just 65.9% of patients with cancer were treated within the target time of 62 days from an urgent referral, meaning that more than 30 000 patients did not start treatment on time.
Matt Morgan: Pods and wards—flipping through rotations - The BMJ
Sep 17, 2024 · Dear Editor, Matt Morgan uses the analogy of resident doctors as dolphins in “fusion-fission” societies to highlight the challenges of frequent rotations, and the desire to balance the possible benefits of gaining diverse clinical experiences with the need for a sense of belonging and connection in the workplace (1).
Acute aortic syndrome | The BMJ
Sep 17, 2024 · Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) is a life threatening condition where a tear in the thoracic aorta can lead to rupture of the aorta and death. It encompasses three conditions: acute aortic dissection; intra-mural haematoma; and penetrating ulcer, 1 and is commonly classified into Stanford type A (involving the ascending aorta) and type B (sparing ...
Patients launch legal action against AstraZeneca over its covid-19 ...
Mar 28, 2023 · Dozens of patients and families are launching legal action against AstraZeneca over a rare side effect of its covid-19 vaccine. Lawyers have sent the company pre-action protocol letters, the first step in a legal claim on behalf of around 75 claimants. Some have lost relatives and some have survived with catastrophic injuries following blood clots. Many millions have had the vaccine without ...
The NHS-Galleri has been judged ethical by all appropriate review ...
Aug 7, 2024 · The BMJ Investigation relating to the NHS-Galleri Trial (1) raises important public health issues but is inaccurate. Of concern is the view that the trial is unethical. The trial was judged ethical by the Health Research Authority (Wales Research Ethics Committee 1: 21/WA/0141). This was not stated in the article.