The BMJPub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q1955
Alexandra Cardoso Pinto, Ramya Sriskandarajah, Hamza Ikhlaq
{"title":"Health coaching to support patients with addiction","authors":"Alexandra Cardoso Pinto, Ramya Sriskandarajah, Hamza Ikhlaq","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q1955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1955","url":null,"abstract":"Aleksandra’s article highlights the importance of holistic, person centred care in the context of addiction.1 In our view, patients living with addiction—including alcohol related addictions—can benefit from health coaching. Health coaching is both a skill and a mindset; it aims to support patients to identify and tackle their health related goals. These are specific to them and therefore relevant and …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142170734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q1990
Kamran Abbasi
{"title":"Grenfell, covid, obesity: excluding commercial interests from public policy making","authors":"Kamran Abbasi","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q1990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1990","url":null,"abstract":"Last year I spoke at Kensington Aldridge Academy. My task was to inspire the schoolchildren. I may or may not have succeeded, but the children certainly inspired me. They were full of hope and a clear sense of a better world. Their questions and comments were intelligent and insightful, and it was my favourite speaking engagement of 2023. Kensington Aldridge Academy is at the foot of Grenfell Tower. David Cameron, prime minister during the period leading up to the Grenfell fire, was a previous speaker. I was told that the children had asked him to apologise for the fire that killed 72 people, including five of the academy’s pupils.12 The fire destroyed lives and livelihoods, leaving people with long term physical and psychological sequelae—poor …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142170735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q2005
Jacqui Wise
{"title":"Diabetes: Once weekly insulin could be as effective as daily injections, studies indicate.","authors":"Jacqui Wise","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q2005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142231469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2024-081080
Sagar Khanna, Brandon Prendes
{"title":"An oral complication of bisphosphonate therapy","authors":"Sagar Khanna, Brandon Prendes","doi":"10.1136/bmj-2024-081080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-081080","url":null,"abstract":"During a routine dental examination, a 69 year old man was found to have multiple areas of exposed bone on the lingual aspect of the right mandible (fig 1). He had a history of myeloma and was being treated with lenalidomide and monthly infusions of 4 mg zoledronic acid for chronic …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142170733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q1930
British Medical Journal Publishing Group
{"title":"Anticoagulation and stroke . . . and other stories","authors":"British Medical Journal Publishing Group","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q1930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1930","url":null,"abstract":"Earlier this year, a large randomised controlled trial reported that early anticoagulation in people with atrial fibrillation who had sustained a stroke probably carried a small benefit over delayed anticoagulation. However, the confidence intervals around the estimated treatment effects were too wide to make definite recommendations ( N Engl J Med doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2303048). A re-analysis finds that this conclusion isn’t changed when infarct size is taken into account. The important finding is that early treatment with direct acting oral anticoagulants doesn’t carry a higher risk of bleeding complications, intracranial haemorrhage, or other adverse events, even when the infarct is large ( JAMA Neurol doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.1450). Lecanemab and donanemab, both monoclonal …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142171028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q2002
Angela Burnett, Cornelius Katona, Sophie McCann, Raman Mostafanejad, Anastasios Yfantis
{"title":"Mass containment sites for people seeking asylum must be abandoned","authors":"Angela Burnett, Cornelius Katona, Sophie McCann, Raman Mostafanejad, Anastasios Yfantis","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q2002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2002","url":null,"abstract":"“Quasi-detention” sites are harmful to the health of people seeking asylum and must be replaced with safe and stable accommodation Prolonged confinement of people seeking asylum in mass containment centres is deeply harmful to their health and can in some cases violate international human rights laws.1 Despite this, such centres continue to be used in the UK and have until recently been promoted as a way of controlling migration flows. Since 2020, the UK government has used former military barracks and a barge, the Bibby Stockholm, to house asylum seekers. These mass containment sites are not suitable accommodation for anyone seeking asylum, and they are particularly damaging for people with trauma and poor health. The new government must urgently replace these sites with safe and dignified community based accommodation for people seeking asylum, with access to appropriate and timely healthcare. The new government’s recent announcement that the current contract for the Bibby Stockholm (which expires in January 2025) would not be renewed2 is a welcome first step in this direction. Napier Barracks was initially used as a “pilot” for further mass containment centres, but it continues to be used, despite having “a profound and cumulative corrosive impact on physical and mental health,”3 …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142174972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q2001
Matthew Limb
{"title":"PM says NHS must \"reform or die\" following damning report into state of the service.","authors":"Matthew Limb","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142231466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q1994
Matthew Limb
{"title":"Assisted dying: Citizens' jury calls for law change in England.","authors":"Matthew Limb","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q1994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1994","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142231470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BMJPub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q2006
Gareth Iacobucci
{"title":"Junk food TV adverts to be banned before 9 pm to tackle childhood obesity.","authors":"Gareth Iacobucci","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q2006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142231465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}