The selective noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor atomoxetine and stimulants (amphetamines and methylphenidate) are the “most effective treatments” for managing the symptoms of attention ...

Peter was born in Bradford, where his father was a carpenter, and he had one sister, Anne. He attended school in Bradford, proceeding to medical school in Edinburgh, where he was a keen athlete. This ...

What price experience? I have been working across several safety critical industries for years and in terms of the approaches that these industries take to workforce issues there are some stark ...

Objective To analyze mortality attributed to Alzheimer’s disease among taxi drivers and ambulance drivers, occupations that demand frequent spatial and navigational processing, compared with other ...

Objective To quantify changes in inequalities in uptake of childhood vaccination during a period of steadily declining overall childhood vaccination rates in England. Design Longitudinal study.

Physician associates (PAs) must “never function as a senior decision maker,” and resident doctors should never be made responsible for supervising them, says interim guidance from the Royal College of ...

Literature has long sounded ecological alarms and imagined our planetary futures, finds Lakshmi Krishnan Our oldest stories begin in the soil or by the sea, myth being the original ecological ...

Increasing production does not necessarily translate to better social outcomes We face a bleak reality. We are in the middle of a mass extinction event driven by human economic activity crossing ...

Nishi qualified in 1991 from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. She chose oncology as her specialty and rapidly developed her expertise in this area. She gained membership of the Royal ...

The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has sued a New York State doctor for allegedly prescribing medication abortion pills to a Texas woman.1 Margaret Daley Carpenter, a board certified family ...

The number of people seeking medically assisted dying in Canada continued to rise last year, but the rate of growth slowed, government data show.1 Figures for 2023 show that 19 660 Canadians requested ...

Editors in chief spanning the past 50 years met recently to reflect on life, medicine, and The BMJ Clockwise from left: Richard Smith, Kamran Abbasi, Fiona Godlee, Stephen Lock. Credit: Richard H ...