Elisabeth Mahase

1 week ago | bmj.com | Elisabeth Mahase

News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1250 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r1250 Cuts outlined in the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act could leave 7.6 million more people uninsured, force an extra 1.3 million people to go without the medications they need, and lead to more than 16 000 additional deaths a year, a study has shown.1 Researchers from Harvard Medical School used studies of Medicaid coverage, as well as the House of Representatives’ Budget Committee...

1 week ago | bmj.com | Elisabeth Mahase

Elisabeth Mahase, careers editorThe BMJemahase{at}bmj.comGetting your introduction right can make a real difference, Elisabeth Mahase hearsUse full names and titlesAnna Harvey Bluemel, academic clinical fellow in obstetrics and gynaecology, says, “Understanding names, roles, and levels of training in medicine are important—both to resident doctors, who represent a wide range of experience across all specialties, and to patients.

2 weeks ago | bmj.com | Elisabeth Mahase

It’s a question that has puzzled clinicians, service providers, and the public. Elisabeth Mahase looks at the latest attempt to size up the problemHas demand for ADHD assessments risen? Reports from doctors, patients, and the media would suggest so.

2 weeks ago | bmj.com | Elisabeth Mahase

Elisabeth Mahase, careers editorThe BMJemahase{at}bmj.comThere are many ways to help deaf and hard of hearing colleagues feel included and supported, Elisabeth Mahase reportsDon’t make assumptionsGeorge Webster, medical student and editorial scholar at The BMJ, says, “Don’t make assumptions. Just because someone wears hearing aids doesn’t mean they don’t also rely on other forms of communication such as lipreading.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Elisabeth Mahase

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A study of hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. finds that people's self-reported racial and ethnic identities doesn't necessarily line up with their genetic ancestries. | Credit: Plume Creative via Getty ImagesThe racial and ethnic groups people identify with may not accurately represent their genetic backgrounds or ancestries, a new study of people in the United States suggests.