BMJ-British Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Brexit three years on: Health and the NHS are still suffering	2717
Sixty seconds on . . . EU covid certificates	1136
Methenamine is as effective as antibiotics at preventing urinary tract infections	885
GP who faked phone consultations in patients’ notes is suspended for nine months	793
Ask the consultant: old age psychiatry	449
Helen Salisbury: Trouble with the new normal	421
Sixty seconds on . . . Wembley	404
Doctors should ask patients about gambling, draft guidance recommends	373
Cryptic Christmas crossword	327
The BMJ Awards 2021: “Landmark” study on dexamethasone wins paper of the year	324
Doctor’s voluntary erasure to avoid fitness to practise hearing can’t be challenged legally, judge rules	315
E-cigarette maker Juul will pay $462m to settle deceptive marketing allegations in six US states	308
Peter Gould	296
Judge stops attempt to sue companies over harms of pregnancy test in the absence of evidence	291
Halt patient access to medical records if there are safety concerns, BMA tells GPs	289
Sixty seconds on . . . excellence awards	285
Poverty is behind deterioration in health in under 5s in the UK, find researchers	281
Subacute small bowel obstruction or chronic large bowel obstruction	267
Covid-19: Has the spread of omicron BA.2 made antibody treatments redundant?	255
Vaccination to prevent mpox	254
Pain in right buttock after carbon monoxide poisoning	251
Covid-19: Silencing health workers, researchers, and journalists caused unnecessary deaths, says Amnesty	250
CQC is reviewing GP service provider’s use of less qualified staff after BBC investigation	241
The NHS at 75: the current crisis is not unintended	239
Children lack access to routine dental care	228

John Arthur Lunn	227
The BMJ Awards 2021: Critical care team of the year	227
Nigel Standfield: vascular surgeon who trained generations worldwide	225
Roundup from the BMA’s annual representative meeting 2023	225
Covid-19: Omicron drives weekly record high in global infections	218
Covid-19: How Kerala kept itself above water in India’s devastating second wave	217
Helen Salisbury: Risk and responsibility when working with physician associates	216
Junior doctors’ pay dispute in England: Government and BMA agree to look at mediation	216
BMA calls for investigation into debacle over covid and flu vaccinations	212
An international medical student’s perspective	212
Government’s “neglect” of GP workforce has made services unsafe, conference hears	210
Patient safety: Access to critical patient information must improve, says report	210
Managing risk: GP Pipin Singh	209
UK’s Rwanda bill is widely condemned for putting vulnerable people’s health at risk	207
February top picks: new beginnings	206
Dystonia	194
Labour’s child health action plan: a multifaceted positive health approach is needed	191
Mortality risk in transgender people is twice as high as in cisgender people, data show	190
Pension changes won’t stem doctor exodus, warns BMA	181
At the heart of communities: the consultant geriatrician	178
Julian André Bradley	172
GP is liable only for costs of harm related to her advice in case of “wrongful birth,” say Supreme Court judges	170
When I use a word . . . Commercial clinical trials	168
Heliotrope rash	163
Update to living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19	162
Gas in the kidney	155
The NHS crisis is not an equal crisis	148
How Botswana discovered the omicron variant	146
Helen Salisbury: Where have our GPs gone?	142
Judge rebukes expert witness in injured baby case for series of failings	140
Charles Wakeley	138
Sixty seconds on . . . xylazine	137
Charles Martin-Bates	134
Three ways genomics is already helping NHS patients—and three ways it will soon	133
David Oliver: Soundbites won’t solve a pandemic	132
Winter is coming—but will the gloomiest forecasts come to pass?	130
Formula milk companies are exploiting legal loopholes, say campaigners	128
Author’s reply to Dawson	128
Covid-19: Italy sees protests against mandatory health passports for workplaces	128
A baby with a scalp plaque	127
Obesity: Integrated care boards close lists for weight management services as demand skyrockets	127
Surgeon who repeated false claims about covid and vaccines while suspended is struck off	126
Covid-19: Winter surge feared as China lurches away from zero covid	125
NHS makes urgent appeal for blood donations after cyberattack on London hospitals	124
Time to improve the clarity of clinical trial reports by including estimands	124
What is driving the pandemic related surge in disordered eating?	123
Why I . . . make podcasts	121
Halving gap in healthy life expectancy must be priority for next government, says NHS leader	120
NHS workforce plan aims to train thousands more doctors and open up apprenticeship schemes	120
Covid inquiry: Tears and tensions as Sturgeon takes the stand	118

Patient access to medical records: What is happening with the rollout in England?	118
Aduhelm: Approval of Alzheimer’s drug was highly unorthodox, finds report	117
Covid-19 vaccination and postmenopausal bleeding	117
American women’s health “is in a perilous place,” study finds	116
Junior doctors pay dispute: What’s happening across the UK?	113
UK healthcare provision: the new normal is not good enough	111
Stuart Graeme Parker	111
Ian Crerar Menzies	110
Gerald Keen: pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon	110
Don’t shift the burden on to me	109
Nitin Shripad Pradhan	109
An older woman with abdominal pain and ascites	107
Tom Nolan’s research reviews—16 February 2023	105
Guidelines also need to consider what patients and families must—and can—contribute	105
Covid-19: Early stage cancer diagnoses fell by third in first lockdown	105
The inefficiency of NHS surgery: beds aren’t “stolen” by the medical team	103
The covid-19 pandemic three years on	102
Bilateral hearing loss and constricted visual fields	100
Without junior doctors, there is no NHS	97
The commercial determinants of health: The mini-budget is a consequence of foundational forces medicine must bear witness to	95
NewJAMAeditor says she will focus on communication, diversity, and health equity	95
Healthcare for asylum seekers: recognise suffering and improve responses	93
RCGP disputes health secretary’s claim that A&E pressure is due to lack of GP appointments	92
The impact of Brexit on health is only just beginning	91
How the US can have guns but fewer gun problems	90
Hazel Stibbe	90
Examining our failings	89
Choices that fail health and wellbeing	89
Communication around the social determinants of health: use the “devil’s music” for emotional appeal	88
Seven days in medicine: 23 February to 1 March	87
Asylum seekers’ health suffers from “unsafe” UK accommodation, report claims	87
Clinical research: What will be the effect of closing down “unviable” trials?	87
Covid-19: High Court overturns decision to ban GP from posting views on pandemic on social media	86
Guidance on cow’s milk allergy may be fuelling overdiagnosis in infants, study finds	85
Mandatory covid-19 vaccination for healthcare workers: all employers are bound by health and safety laws to reduce risk	84
Seven days in medicine: 26 Jan to 1 Feb 2022	83
Authors’ reply to Chiolero, Bannon, and Dickinson	83
Ukraine invasion: Hope of new life in the tragedy of war	83
World’s young demand eco-action	82
The workforce crisis: don’t leave overseas doctors in limbo	82
Covid-19: Second judge says that “most complex covid patient in the world” should be allowed to die	82
John Alexander Glennie	79
Could it be covid? Update information to stop public confusion	79
Hygromycin A . . . and other stories	79
Primary care led triage in emergency departments decreases waiting times, study finds	78
Maternal health: “white” medical curriculum needs overhaul to tackle racial inequalities, campaigners say	77
Are we lioness enough to question the Brexit elephant?	77
Awani Kumar Choudhary: orthopaedic surgeon and medical activist	76
Every pregnancy associated violent death should be considered preventable, say researchers	76
Godfrey Fowler	76
Seven days in medicine: 20-26 April 2022	76
Learning to live in a body at war with itself	76
Robert Kenneth Jackson	75
Narindar Nath Sood	75
Update to living systematic review on prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of covid-19	75
Covid-19: Case rises in the Americas driven by increases in North and Central America	73
Why I . . . embroider	73
New vision for NHS health data has potential to drive health improvement	72
Covid-19: Hospital admissions continue to climb amid record infection rates	72
It’s time for all doctors to engage on assisted dying	71
Centralising human resources paperwork would improve rotational training	71
Alexander Knapton	71
CQC’s plans to rethink inspection ratings don’t go far enough, says BMA	71
Covid-19: Pandemic waste threatens human and environmental health, says WHO	70
Antiracism must confront failings have become the new norm	70
Partha Kar: Antiracism starts with an apology	69
Housing and climate: UK homes need urgent adaptation to protect our health	69
Broader approaches are necessary for containing pandemics like covid-19	69
It makes no sense for Thérèse Coffey to continue to vote against measures to prevent climate change	68
Gambling: call to end industry funded education materials that “stigmatise” people with addictions	68
Review that questioned serotonin theory of depression was flawed, say researchers	68
Helen Salisbury: The weight of emotions	68
Another drug strategy for the UK	68
Covid-19: Show us evidence for lifting restrictions, doctors tell Johnson	67
Seven days in medicine: 14-20 June 2023	67
Prostate cancer screening and the golden rule of humanity	66
GP clinic closures are linked to lower patient satisfaction at remaining practices, study finds	66
Tackling rare conditions: the consultant dermatologist	66
Former deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam joins Moderna as clinical adviser	66
Preterm birth and airway disease . . . and other stories	66

Recurrent facial paralysis and weakness	65
Doctors’ strikes show that it’s time to introduce true democracy throughout the NHS	65
No water by 2040: The crisis engulfing Iraq and its historic river flow	65
One-off physiotherapy and at-home exercise are effective in treating shoulder pain	65
World Cup: Concussion protocol in Iran-England match was “utter disgrace,” says charity	65
Covid-19: Two doses of Pfizer vaccine are “highly effective” against infection, hospital admission, and death, study finds	64
Covid-19: China’s CoronaVac vaccine offers 83.5% protection against symptomatic infection, interim analysis finds	64
“Placeholder jobs” are isolating doctors at the start of their careers	64
Ahmad Fahim Ismail	63
Labour’s primary care reforms cannot happen without an appropriately funded NHS	63
A woman with recurrent erythema and vesicles on her legs	63
Girls’ education and the future of healthcare in Afghanistan	63
How covid-19 revealed the scandal of medical oxygen supplies worldwide	62
Health department will help boost UK economy by getting people back to work, says Streeting	62
Speech therapy for people with Parkinson’s disease	62
Abolition of the Medical Practices Committee has led to inequitable distribution of GPs	61
Nearly 700 anaesthetists have training interrupted after cuts	60
Challenging NHS hierarchy can save patients’ lives—I’ve seen how it saved my son	60
Seven days in medicine: 17-23 May 2023	60
Coaching: a personal touch	60
“Massive relief” as Northern Ireland’s health sector embraces Windsor framework	60
Academics protest at UK research body’s “failure” to stand up for free speech	59
Covid-19: What went wrong after initial success in Laos?	59
Men wage war, women and children pay the price	59
Record breaking floods hit Brazil	58
Doctors can’t fix the alcohol problem by themselves	58
Covid-19: Hunger spreads and food prices soar amid pandemic, warns UN food agency	58
HIV and covid-19 in South Africa	57
David Leonard Asbury	57
Sudden onset generalised yellowish papules	56
Jennifer Kernahan	56
Invest in health workforce or risk collapse, WHO warns governments	55
Global leaders call for negotiators to push through pandemic accord ahead of May deadline	55
Ken Stein	55
It is time to expand community alternatives to immigration detention	54
Death toll rises after two earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria in 12 hours	54
John Launer: Rehumanising the NHS a day at a time	54
Adopting new technology is crucial to surgeons’ training, says report	54
Seven days in medicine: 11-17 September 2024	53
Covid-19: Charities question inquiry’s “refusal” to fully examine mental health impact	52
Fix workforce problems in environmental health or risk further outbreaks of foodborne disease	52
Gender conversion therapy: why is banning it so divisive?	52
Jonathan (“Joff”) Harvey Shaw	52
Raul Perez-Montejano	52
UN fires nine staff members over potential involvement in 7 October Hamas attack on Israel	51
How can we get malaria control back on track?	51
Covid-19: Bereaved families group collects BMJ award for holding ministers to account	51
The NHS workforce plan: building resilient teams and retention of senior clinicians must be prioritised	51
Nature and climate crisis: adaptations need to “spread like wildfire”	50
When I use a word . . . Diphthongs and digraphs	50
Indian medical students are using social media to challenge hierarchies in medical education	50
Association of holidays and the day of the week with suicide risk: multicountry, two stage, time series study	49
Inconsistent definitions of labour progress and over-medicalisation cause unnecessary harm during birth	49
When I use a word . . . Aphrodisiacs—taxonomy and doctrines	49
Solidarity kitchens: how pandemic food assistance developed to offer much more	49
Why I . . . set up a death cafe	48
Mike Pawson: obstetrician and gynaecologist who reflected on the psychological aspects of fertility and pregnancy	48
Diagnostic accuracy of magnetically guided capsule endoscopy with a detachable string for detecting oesophagogastric varices in adults with cirrhosis: prospective multicentre study	47
Marmot Places: the areas taking a proactive local approach to health inequalities	47
John Matheson: GP and bridge champion, who put his success down to a combination of psychology and strategic thinking	47
Anne Bayley: surgical oncologist who recognised the spread of AIDS in Zambia among heterosexual patients	47
Helen Salisbury: An illusion of control	47
Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science	47
Surgical adverse events in the US	46
Comparative effectiveness of ChAdOx1 versus BNT162b2 covid-19 vaccines in health and social care workers in England: cohort study using OpenSAFELY	46
What do we know about covid in immunocompromised people?	46
UN biodiversity summit on reversing nature loss “veers dangerously off track”	46
When I use a word . . . . Too much healthcare—too much of everything	46
When I use a word . . . . Medical anniversaries in 2023	46
When I use a word . . . . Vaccination—rights and duties	46
Government aims to cut waiting lists and improve mental health support to get two million people into work	45
Retention of skilled anaesthetists should be a priority	45
England’s new workforce plan is a propaganda masterclass in glossing over the gaps	45
Devalued: doctors’ real terms purchasing power has declined substantially over 15 years, independent economic analysis confirms	45
Tirzepatide: Obesity injection will get phased rollout to avoid overwhelming GPs	45
Diagnosis and management of resistant hypertension	44
Deadly nitazenes: a 2024 update	44
What is “man flu”?	44
Correction	44
Broken beyond repair: self regulation of industry payments to clinicians and hospitals	44
Doctors need training to become good leaders	44
A recurrent rash on the penis	44
Why doctors have a moral imperative to prescribe and support medical cannabis—an essay by David Nutt	43
Genetic determinism . . . and other stories	43
Arterial thrombosis in users of contemporary hormonal contraception	43
Evaluation of effectiveness and safety of pharmacist independent prescribers in care homes: cluster randomised controlled trial	43
Anthony John Webb	42
Medical abortion: Taking first tablet at home after 12 weeks of pregnancy is safe, study reports	42
NHS must fix training for UK doctors before encouraging applicants from abroad, says BMA chair	42
Winter pressure: NHS struggles to cope with flu surge as hospitals declare critical incidents	42
The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings	42
Trauma surgeon who had PTSD awarded £100 000 for unfair dismissal	42
Labour’s 10 year plan for the English NHS	42
Controlling avian influenza	42
Partha Kar: The new storm propagated by poor medical workforce planning is now upon us	42