» Improving awareness and care in polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (formerly polycystic ovary syndrome)
15/05/26 11:56 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), formerly polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), is one of the commonest endocrine disorders in women of reproductive age, with a global prevalence of 7-12%,1 including gender diverse people wit...

» Restoring certainty to global health regulation
15/05/26 11:16 from Latest headlines from BMJ
An acknowledgement to Elize Massard da Fonseca was omitted in this editorial by Y Tony Yang and colleagues (BMJ 2026;393:s814; doi:10.1136/bmj.s814). The online version has been corrected.

» Ambiguous guideline recommendations harm patient care
15/05/26 10:26 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Guidelines should help clinicians and patients make better decisions, but too often they do the opposite. Providing recommendations that are vague, outdated, or inactionable can harm patients by causing confusion and misunderstanding, de...

» PCOS name change to PMOS must be managed to avoid confusing patients, says expert
15/05/26 10:21 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) has been renamed polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), an article published in the Lancet has advised.1However, experts warn that care must be taken to introduce the name gradually so as not to...

» Gaza doctors documentary dropped by BBC wins Bafta award
15/05/26 10:01 from Latest headlines from BMJ
A documentary detailing Israeli military attacks on hospitals and ambulances in Gaza and the deaths and injuries of Palestinian healthcare workers has won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for current affairs.The gong c...

» GPs back exploration of NHS private “dentist-style” service
15/05/26 09:11 from Latest headlines from BMJ
GPs could be balloted on moving to a hybrid private-public service model similar to NHS dentistry, after a vote at the annual conference of GP representatives.A motion (see box) carried by the conference of UK local medical committees in...

» Amsterdam becomes first capital to ban ads for meat and fossil fuel based travel
15/05/26 09:10 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Advertisements for meat products and fossil fuel based industries such as airline and cruise ship travel will be banned in Amsterdam, in a move welcomed by public health experts and environmentalists.The measure, the first for any capita...

» Geraint Morgan Jeremiah
15/05/26 08:51 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Geraint was born in the Welsh village of Cwmgors and attended Pontardawe Grammar School. In 1962 he joined St Thomas’ Medical School in London. He was a keen Welsh speaker and retained the language, living with his uncle Dai and aunt Cat...

» Edward Tierney
15/05/26 08:36 from Latest headlines from BMJ
bmj;393/may15_2/s836/FAF1faEdward Tierney qualified in 1964 and undertook house officer posts in Ireland, including at County Hospital Monaghan, followed by training in obstetrics and gynaecology and anaesthetics. He was held in high reg...

» How are ambient scribe companies using patient data?
15/05/26 08:26 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Eccles and colleagues discuss the potential unintended effects of ambient scribes on quality of care and clinical decision making.1 Ambient scribe software companies prominently advertise encryption protocols and other measures to preven...

» Analysing complex interventions using component network meta-analysis
14/05/26 11:51 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Systematic reviews frequently evaluate complex interventions that combine multiple healthcare interventions—called components—to achieve important patient and health system outcomes.12 Clinicians and patients may want to know the safest ...

» Integrating body based approaches into mental healthcare
14/05/26 10:21 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Holtzman gives a nuanced personal insight into the links between trauma and chronic pain.1 From early in their medical training, doctors are often taught about a “mind-body connection,” yet they receive little guidance on how to translat...

» NHS Online: What we do and don’t know about the bold new plan to revolutionise care
14/05/26 09:56 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Fixing the NHS and its long care backlog has been one of the key pledges of the Labour government and the Department of Health and Social Care, and they think they have hit on a solution: NHS Online.NHS England’s website describes it as ...

» One pill post stroke . . . and other research
14/05/26 09:46 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Combination pills after intracerebral haemorrhageAlthough single pill combination antihypertensives are available in the UK, prescribing each medication as an individual tablet is the norm. A large multicentre trial explored the use of a...

» An ulcerated lesion on the scalp
14/05/26 09:45 from Latest headlines from BMJ
A woman in her 70s presented with a 22×15 mm raised scalp lesion with central ulceration (fig 1). Her medical history included anal squamous cell carcinoma (treated with radical radiotherapy), non-diabetic hyperglycaemia, osteoarthritis,...

» Weakness after antifungal use
14/05/26 09:41 from Latest headlines from BMJ
A man in his 40s presented to the dermatology clinic with a pedal rash and the patient was diagnosed as having tinea pedis. He was prescribed oral terbinafine (250 mg once daily), aiming for a course of up to three months. Three days aft...

» Cognitive outcomes after preterm birth . . . and other stories
14/05/26 09:31 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Sleep, diet, exerciseSleep, physical activity, and nutrition are lifestyle behaviours that influence cardiovascular disease risk. In the UK Biobank study, the most favourable combination—at least eight hours’ sleep each night, an hour a ...

» GP data: BMA plans patient information campaign to warn of dangers in wake of king’s speech
14/05/26 08:56 from Latest headlines from BMJ
The chair of the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee England (GPC England) has attacked government plans1 to force GPs and hospitals in England to share patient data that were set out in the king’s speech on 13 May.Addressing the annua...

» Clement Nwokolo Ugwu
14/05/26 08:41 from Latest headlines from BMJ
bmj;393/may14_2/s828/FAF1faClement was born in Enugu, south east Nigeria, and raised in Jos, in the north of the country. He belonged to an early generation of African trained doctors who built senior medical careers in the UK. He is bel...

» Kevin Hardinge
14/05/26 08:36 from Latest headlines from BMJ
bmj;393/may14_1/s826/FAF1faKevin was born on the Isle of Man in 1939 and attended Douglas High School for Boys, where he won the mayor’s prize for leadership. He then studied medicine at Liverpool University medical school from 1957 to 1...