Модный дом Hermes сделал то, что не удалось ни одному другому лейблу. И сделал это в современной интерпретации. Всемирно известный дорогой лейбл выпустил свой уникальный новый модельный ряд сумок «на день» из шелка...
Массовые молитвы в центре Москвы в день мусульманского праздника Ураза-байрам, в которых приняли участие десятки тысяч человек, позволили некоторым комментаторам заметить, что Москва превратилась в Москвабад.
Внезапное объявление в июне досрочных выборов мэра Москвы повлекло за собой целую череду событий, которые могут в итоге кардинально изменить политическую ситуацию в России.
US Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health produced by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies...
How can you treat a young person who is exhibiting the first signs of psychosis? Mabel Chew talks to Professor Tim Kendall a consultant psychiatrist...
In this practice special podcast, Timothy Wilt, professor of medicine at Minneapolis VA Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, explains how to talk to patients about prostate cancer screening.
The Francis report into care standards at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was published this week. Triggered by deaths at a hospital in England...
The BMJ held a round table in January 2013 to discuss the future of primary care in England and Wales. The wide ranging topics included out of hours care, commissioning, education, time management, and integration.
How involved are doctors in the non medical aspects of patient care? An analysis on bmj.com this week examines the problem of nutrition and fluid balance in hospitalised patients.
Of the myriad of clinical decision support tools, what features actually improve patient outcomes? Pavel Romanov, medical student at Western University in Canada, discusses his research.
In the wake of the Francis report, the BMJ gathered experts to discuss compassion in the health service. This is the discussion in full.
If patients living in one area have more diagnoses than those living in another, use more care, but have similar mortality rates, you would think they were simply sicker...
Andrew Witty is the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline. He’s been credited with taking on a pharma company with a history of behaving badly in the past – as shown by a record $3bn fine levied by the US government last year.
Recorded at the recent Nuffield health policy summit, this round table asks how to impliment the Francis reports recommendations.
Are all calories equal? Thermodynamics would say that energy is energy, be it derived from carbohydrate, fat, or protein. But things get more complicated when appetite is taken into consideration ...
A clinical review this week looks at the diagnosis and treatment of carotid atherosclerosis, including when to screen and the threshold for intervention.
The issues of hidden data are well known, and the BMJ’s open data campaign page documents some of the problems which have arisen as a result of clinical trial data remaining undisclosed.
The World Health Organization has chosen hypertension as the public health threat it will focus on for the next year. The problem is particularly pressing in India...
Delirium is often missed in primary and secondary care. Edison Vidal, assistant professor in internal medicine at the Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, advises on diagnosing and managing the condition.
This week, we discuss how Australia’s national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme has caused a dramatic drop in genital warts. Does this foretell elimination of all disease caused by HPV in the country?
Patients are increasingly going online to find and discuss information about their condition. What are they getting on the web that they’re not getting from clinicians, and how is this changing healthcare?
Mabel Chew, practice editor at the BMJ, talks to Tushar Kotecha, a cardiology specialist registrar at Charing Cross Hospital in London, about when to suspect heart failure, and how to diagnose the condition.
The BMJ Awards were held last Thursday. Fiona Godlee, the BMJ's editor in chief, announced that the Britain Nepal Otology Service (BRINOS) was named Medical Team of the Year.