05 April 2025(vol 389, issue 8460)

This Week

• Smartphone and social media harms: why we failed in our duty of care

  BMJ 2025; 389 :r658 (Published 03 April 2025)

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• Resident doctors criticise “incompetence” of recruitment process after radiology job offers are retracted

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r635 (Published 28 March 2025)

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• Medical news in brief: Rise in TB and measles, world’s first H5N1 case in sheep, MPs back tobacco bill, and other stories

  BMJ 2025; 389 :r644 (Published 03 April 2025)

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• Assisted dying: England and Wales rollout could be delayed as Isle of Man pushes ahead

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r606 (Published 26 March 2025)

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• Sixty seconds on . . . coin swallowing

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r633 (Published 28 March 2025)

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• Lucy Letby: Families’ lawyers cast doubt on panel’s findings that questioned convictions

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r594 (Published 25 March 2025)

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• Confusion between sex and gender identity in official data has dangerous implications, review warns

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r589 (Published 24 March 2025)

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• Welfare cuts: 250 000 more people will be pushed into poverty, leaving doctors to “pick up the pieces”

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r613 (Published 27 March 2025)

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• Trump watch: HIV/AIDS research sent into crisis, growing hostility to mRNA vaccines, and more

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r645 (Published 31 March 2025)

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• Vaccine sceptic appointed to head vaccine autism study, as 10 000 staff cut from US health agency

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r642 (Published 31 March 2025)

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• Gonorrhoea: Rise of antibiotic resistant cases in England prompts call for use of condoms and tests

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r622 (Published 27 March 2025)

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• Medical workforce: UK government is accused of “unethical” recruitment from “red list” nations

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r605 (Published 26 March 2025)

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• Gaza: US doctor at bombed hospital says “the world doesn’t seem to care”

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r616 (Published 27 March 2025)

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• UK welfare reforms threaten health of the most vulnerable

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r593 (Published 25 March 2025)

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• Clinical care for patients at risk of psychosis related violence

  BMJ 2025; 389 :r603 (Published 01 April 2025)

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• Migrants in limbo and the doctors struggling to provide care

  BMJ 2025; 389 :q2438 (Published 01 April 2025)

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• Antiracism in medicine: what is it?

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r362 (Published 17 March 2025)

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• Combining medicine and mental health: the consultant old age liaison psychiatrist

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r556 (Published 24 March 2025)

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• How can I support a neurodivergent colleague?

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r559 (Published 31 March 2025)

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Research

• Care guided by tissue oxygenation and haemodynamic monitoring in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (Bottomline-CS): assessor blind, single centre, randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e082104 (Published 24 March 2025)

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• Near-infrared spectroscopy in perioperative medicine

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r539 (Published 24 March 2025)

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• Stepwise dual antiplatelet therapy de-escalation in patients after drug coated balloon angioplasty (REC-CAGEFREE II): multicentre, randomised, open label, assessor blind, non-inferiority trial

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e082945 (Published 31 March 2025)

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• Refining DAPT strategies after drug coated balloon angioplasty

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r507 (Published 31 March 2025)

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• Effects of intensive blood pressure treatment on orthostatic hypertension: individual level meta-analysis

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e080507 (Published 25 March 2025)

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Comment

• Helen Salisbury: Improved access is meaningless without increased capacity

  BMJ 2025; 389 :r641 (Published 01 April 2025)

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• David Oliver: What functions should remain within NHS central government agencies?

  BMJ 2025; 389 :r630 (Published 02 April 2025)

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• John Launer: Watch out for that indulgent smile

  BMJ 2025; 389 :r629 (Published 02 April 2025)

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• Scarlett McNally: Schoolchildren give me hope for future generations of NHS staff

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r516 (Published 19 March 2025)

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• The MRCP exam disaster’s hidden cost for women

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r534 (Published 17 March 2025)

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• The growing number of prospective doctors given placeholder jobs demands urgent action

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r587 (Published 24 March 2025)

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• Children will suffer from changes to US research system

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r572 (Published 26 March 2025)

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• Trump 2.0—a backwards step for women’s sexual and reproductive rights

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r550 (Published 24 March 2025)

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• Preventing ill health requires dismantling of the structures that have failed

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r560 (Published 25 March 2025)

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• Art of “holding patient care in general practice” is key to survival of the NHS

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r546 (Published 24 March 2025)

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• Revolution in academic medicine: reducing bureaucratic barriers

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r499 (Published 20 March 2025)

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• Assisted dying legislation: private member’s bills and the need for more research

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r386 (Published 28 February 2025)

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• “Rule of three” for medical decision making

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r471 (Published 13 March 2025)

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• Increasing suicides of female healthcare workers indicate a population and economy at risk

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r558 (Published 25 March 2025)

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• Climate activism: a necessity to protect public health

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r549 (Published 20 March 2025)

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• Approaches to children’s smartphone and social media use must go beyond bans

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e082569 (Published 27 March 2025)

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• In a healthcare system under increasing pressure, can a palliative care commission drive meaningful change?

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r610 (Published 27 March 2025)

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• Tuberculosis in the UK

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r604 (Published 31 March 2025)

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Education

• Vitamin D for multiple sclerosis … and other research

  BMJ 2025; 389 :r601 (Published 03 April 2025)

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• Clearly demarcated erythematous rash

  BMJ 2025; 389 :e082105 (Published 03 April 2025)

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• Surgery on Friday . . . and other stories

  BMJ 2025; 389 :r583 (Published 03 April 2025)

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• Advances in the management of endometrial cancer

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e080978 (Published 05 March 2025)

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• Schoolchildren with asthma face different risks at different ages

  BMJ 2025; 389 :q2534 (Published 03 April 2025)

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• Caring for patients experiencing homelessness

  BMJ 2025; 388 :e080768 (Published 31 March 2025)

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• Finding the right treatment for severe depression

  BMJ 2025; 389 :r478 (Published 02 April 2025)

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• Unilateral decreased vision and macular lesions in a boy

  BMJ 2025; 389 :bmj.2024-082355 (Published 03 April 2025)

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Obituaries

• Jillian Ann Jellicoe

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r512 (Published 18 March 2025)

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• Julia Ruth Hamilton

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r514 (Published 17 March 2025)

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• Allan Fowler

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r511 (Published 17 March 2025)

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• David Ian Marshall

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r515 (Published 18 March 2025)

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• John Brand: GP who carried out much cited research into motion sickness after serving in the Royal Navy

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r451 (Published 06 March 2025)

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• Malcolm Faulk: forensic psychiatrist whose work bridged the gap between the NHS and prisons

  BMJ 2025; 388 :r449 (Published 07 March 2025)

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• Mike Pawson: obstetrician and gynaecologist who reflected on the psychological aspects of fertility and pregnancy

  BMJ 2024; 387 :q2778 (Published 12 December 2024)

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