{"title":"Student loans scandal: young doctors are paying the price.","authors":"Alexander Mafi","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s576","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9201,"journal":{"name":"BMJ : British Medical Journal","volume":"392 ","pages":"s576"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147509815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruth Abrams, Victoria Williams, Sophie Park, Laura Jefferson
{"title":"Easing parenting challenges in primary care.","authors":"Ruth Abrams, Victoria Williams, Sophie Park, Laura Jefferson","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9201,"journal":{"name":"BMJ : British Medical Journal","volume":"392 ","pages":"s553"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147509865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resident doctors announce fresh strike action in England.","authors":"Gareth Iacobucci","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s586","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9201,"journal":{"name":"BMJ : British Medical Journal","volume":"392 ","pages":"s586"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147509843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saishravan Shyamsundar, Eric A Friedman, Lawrence O Gostin
{"title":"Communicating science in a misinformed era: innovative strategies for global physicians.","authors":"Saishravan Shyamsundar, Eric A Friedman, Lawrence O Gostin","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s543","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9201,"journal":{"name":"BMJ : British Medical Journal","volume":"392 ","pages":"s543"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147509774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MenB: Kent hospital admits \"indefensible\" delay in raising alarm about suspected meningitis case.","authors":"Jacqui Wise","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s581","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9201,"journal":{"name":"BMJ : British Medical Journal","volume":"392 ","pages":"s581"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147509836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Midwifery journal sent \"inappropriate\" survey sponsored by formula company, critics say.","authors":"Jacqui Wise","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s578","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9201,"journal":{"name":"BMJ : British Medical Journal","volume":"392 ","pages":"s578"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147509856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Distinct\" meningitis B genome is one of three factors driving Kent outbreak, experts say.","authors":"Jacqui Wise","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s570","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9201,"journal":{"name":"BMJ : British Medical Journal","volume":"392 ","pages":"s570"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147509816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lindy Clemson, Katharine Scrivener, Natasha Lannin, Louise Ada, Sally Day, Ingrid Lin, Stephen Isbel, Anne Cusick, Benjamin Gardner, Elisabeth Preston, Gillian Heller, Catherine M Dean
{"title":"Home based, tailored intervention to reduce rate of falls after stroke (FAST): randomised trial.","authors":"Lindy Clemson, Katharine Scrivener, Natasha Lannin, Louise Ada, Sally Day, Ingrid Lin, Stephen Isbel, Anne Cusick, Benjamin Gardner, Elisabeth Preston, Gillian Heller, Catherine M Dean","doi":"10.1136/bmj-2025-085519","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmj-2025-085519","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary, home based, tailored intervention to reduce falls after stroke.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Two armed, randomised trial.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Three states in Australia.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>People within 5 years of stroke, aged >50 years, discharged from formal rehabilitation to the community, and able to walk 10 m across flat ground with or without an aid. Those with moderate-to-severe receptive aphasia or walking speed >1.4 m/s without falls in the previous year were excluded.</p><p><strong>Intervention: </strong>Over 6 months, the experimental group received a habit forming functional exercise, home fall hazard reduction, and goal directed community mobility coaching; the control group received usual care. Physiotherapist and occupational therapist dyadic teams worked collaboratively to deliver the intervention.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>The primary outcome was rate of falls over 12 months. Secondary outcomes were proportion of participants having a fall, community participation, self-efficacy, balance, mobility, physical activity, activities of daily living, depression, and health related quality of life.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Between August 2019 and December 2023, 370 people with stroke were enrolled. At 12 months, a significant between group difference was seen in the rate of falls in favour of the experimental group, representing a 33% reduction in falls (incidence rate ratio 0.67, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.48 to 0.94; P=0.02). No significant between group difference was seen in the number of participants having a fall (absolute risk reduction 0.03, 95% CI -0.07 to 0.13; P=0.52). The main between group differences in favour of the experimental group were in community participation (Late Life Function and Disability Instrument disability limitation: mean difference 3% (95% CI 1% to 6%); P=0.02), self-efficacy (mean difference 0.6 (0.2 to 1.0); P=0.004), mobility (fast walking speed: mean difference 0.13 (0.06 to 0.19) m/s (P<0.001); preferred walking speed: 0.06 (0.02 to 0.10) m/s (P=0.02)), and balance (Step Test: mean difference 0.06 (0.01 to 0.12) steps/s; P=0.03).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A tailored intervention prevented falls in community dwelling, ambulatory people with stroke. The decrease in the rate of falls was underpinned by clinically worthwhile improvements in self-efficacy, mobility, community participation, and balance.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12619001114134.</p>","PeriodicalId":9201,"journal":{"name":"BMJ : British Medical Journal","volume":"392 ","pages":"e085519"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13010266/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147509812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abortion rates at record high-as House of Lords backs decriminalisation, what's driving the rise?","authors":"Sally Howard","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s562","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9201,"journal":{"name":"BMJ : British Medical Journal","volume":"392 ","pages":"s562"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147509833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GMC to get new powers to crackdown on doctors over racism and antisemitism.","authors":"Gareth Iacobucci","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s568","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9201,"journal":{"name":"BMJ : British Medical Journal","volume":"392 ","pages":"s568"},"PeriodicalIF":42.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147509797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}