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@bmj.comHelicobacter pylori is a Gram negative bacterium that causes upper gastrointestinal disease and symptoms.
This clinical update present recent guidelines and evidence on H pylori prevalence, transmission, detection, and management in primary care
https://bit.ly/4yDz6Cf
@bmj.comHaving received the HPV vaccine before pregnancy is associated with a lower risk of major pregnancy complications, including preterm birth, with the greater reduction in risk seen among women vaccinated at an earlier age, finds study in The BMJ
https://bit.ly/4yNoTmA
@bmj.com"In medicine and health we’ve seen miracle cures before, and it’s a matter of time before they’re debunked or shown to do more harm than good."
In this Editor's Choice, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social writes on medicine’s latest, and super intelligent, miracle cure
www.bmj.com/content/395/...
@bmj.com#BMJInvestigation finds that NHS labs are failing to share data that are vital for the diagnosis and care of rare diseases.
Experts and families say this could be prolonging uncertainty and delaying treatment
@bmj.comA laboratory worker at an anti-plague research institute near Irkutsk, in the Siberian region of Russia, has reportedly died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin. What do we know so far?
@bmj.comThe UK Covid-19 Inquiry published its module 5 report on the emergency procurement and distribution of key healthcare supplies in July.
Module 5 of the inquiry does not go far enough on conflicts of interest
www.bmj.com/content/395/...
@bmj.comMissed the launch event at #UNGA81 of the BMJ Collection on protecting global sexual and reproductive rights?
Catch the recording here https://bit.ly/4AL8YXA
With thanks to our partner, the SRJ hub at CUNY School of Public Health, and all the authors.
Read the Collection:
https://bit.ly/4hoBt5L
@bmj.com"Social care has had its NHS moment."
In this Editor's Choice, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social writes about new deals on social care and physician assistants
www.bmj.com/content/395/...
@bmj.comTwo new BMJ studies suggest that robotic assisted hip and knee replacements offer no clear benefit over conventional surgery for implant survival, revision risk, or surgical complications
https://bit.ly/4hHx2C5
@bmj.comDigital menstrual tracking risks creating more harm than benefit and these apps requires greater scrutiny, warn experts. Katharine Lee and colleagues argue that neither menstrual tracking nor "cycle syncing" have been convincingly shown to improve health or other performance measures
@bmj.comThe use of a surrogate endpoint in a clinical trial may allow faster approval of a novel treatment, but at the cost of increased uncertainty about treatment benefit.
This paper presents a framework for surrogate endpoint evaluation
https://bit.ly/4daxpUf
@bmj.com"To fast track their AI ambitions, tech companies are pressuring leaders to accept severe and largely avoidable harms."
Coordinated international action from governments is needed to mitigate the health and environmental harms of data centres, @ucs.org
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@bmj.comImplementing equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in healthcare research is critical to increasing the generalisability of findings. This new tool can be used to assess and monitor the quality of EDI implementation
@bmj.com"The national drive to get everyone off the streets by Christmas must be viewed as a short term fix only."
Plans to end rough sleeping must focus on health exclusion and specialist services, @homelesslink.bsky.social
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@bmj.comHow do I gain leadership experience early in my career?
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@bmj.comChris Whitty: Doctors must be trained in managing risk in patient care, CMO says.
The BMJ and @acmedsci.bsky.social inaugural joint annual lecture given by Prof. Whitty covered risk, uncertainty, and medical decision-making.
Watch the full lecture now: https://bit.ly/4AxqLBq
@bmj.com"If holding too much risk is dangerous, holding too little means that doctors aren’t working to the level of their professional ability."
In this Editor's Choice, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social asks: can the profession fix risk holding?
www.bmj.com/content/394/...
@bmj.comCompared with no use of hormone therapy, oral menopausal hormone therapy was associated with increased venous thromboembolic risk regardless of dosage & treatment duration, finds study.
No increased thrombotic risks were observed with transdermal therapy
https://bit.ly/4cZ0BgN
@bmj.comGirls denied education today become women with poorer health. Nadia Akseer and colleagues look at why Afghanistan's bans on girls and women’s education and engagement in public life also represents a profound public health threat
@bmj.comIn a new BMJ Collection, Chelsea Clinton calls on leaders “to seize the opportunity to build lasting systems for governance, financing, and delivery of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice.”
Read & share all the articles in the Collection:
https://bit.ly/3VwdBo0
