Staffing shortages play a key role in unsafe maternity care, an analysis of 92 cases by the Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations programme has found
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“Mountaineering helps keep me healthy, is a real motivator to stay physically fit, and gives me a work-life balance.'

GP Adam Booth talks to Kathy Oxtoby about his experiences of climbing some of the highest mountains in the world, including Everest—twice
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Polypharmacy is common in older adults and is associated with adverse drug events, cognitive and functional impairment, and increased healthcare costs.

What do we know about the effectiveness of deprescribing interventions?
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'Families and the public purse are already paying the price of under-resourced maternity care.'

Acknowledging the dangers of childbirth could be key to fixing #maternity services, says Prof Scarlett McNally
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Approximately 1.1 million people are facing catastrophic food insecurity in #Gaza .

200 days into Israel’s military bombardment and siege of Gaza, we are witnessing the onset of a man made and preventable #famine , Medical Aid for Palestinians Khaled Dawas
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'Instead of helping GPs to do our job—providing expert medical care to our registered patients—it seems that the funding arrangements have been deliberately engineered to ensure the destruction of traditional general practice.'

Dr Helen Salisbury's latest
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After the confusion of 2020, WHO has finally changed its definition of how diseases can spread through the air.

But what is the new definition—and what needs to happen next? Mun-Keat Looi reports
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📣 One day left until the The BMJ and UK Health Alliance on Climate Change event 'In Conversation with Simon Stevens'

Simon Stevens will answer questions on #climatechange and health, getting the NHS to net zero, and more.

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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.

What do we know about these effects?
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What will it take for a new sanitary revolution in the UK?

Sanitation is an essential public health service, so where is the outrage at the pollution of England’s waterways, ask john middleton & Patrick Saunders

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Poisoning is a leading cause of unintentional injury in children worldwide.

How should you assess a child with suspected exposure to toxic household chemicals? #MedEd
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The current #mpox outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo is a public health emergency fuelled by decades of conflict and healthcare underdevelopment.

It also offers an opportunity to revitalise the country’s healthcare system, Faraan Rahim
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The rationale for including #race or #ethnicity in clinical guidelines is often unclear.

Guidelines should be reviewed to identify inappropriate use of race and ethnicity, say Dr Habib Naqvi MBE and colleagues
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An average of 2.4 million children a month were living in food insecure homes during 2022-23 in the UK.

These children are at risk of poorer physical, emotional, mental, and social outcomes, says Rachel Loopstra
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Join us next week for the The BMJ and UK Health Alliance on Climate Change event 'In Conversation with Simon Stevens'

Simon Stevens will answer questions on #climatechange and health, getting the NHS to net zero, and more.

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Doing more to safeguard people against the effects of worklessness is the right thing to do, but tightening up on sick notes isn’t a solution in itself, says Rammya Mathew.

And we can’t overlook the backdrop on which Britain is becoming a “sicker nation'
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Big tobacco's 'use of its power to deny scientific evidence, lobby political leaders, and promote information that minimises the harms of their products is well documented.'

Juliet Dobson looks at corporate interference in healthcare in Editor's Choice
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📣An expression of concern has been issued for this research paper: Efficacy of psilocybin for treating symptoms of depression: systematic review and meta-analysis bmj.com/content/385/bm…

'The public needs to understand our brains are organs we can help protect in the same way as our hearts. This understanding must, in part, be promoted by the clinical community.'

How can we encourage conversations about preventing dementia?
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To fulfil the health system’s purpose of promoting health, environmental #sustainability must be accepted as a central mission of the health system by all involved, MGH Center for the Environment and Health LIEPP Sciences Po
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