Elisabeth Mahase
Clinical News Reporter at The BMJ
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bmj.com | Elisabeth Mahase
An Israeli attack on Al-Ahli Hospital in northern Gaza forced critically ill patients out onto the street, killing at least one patient who relied on oxygen, and destroyed vital equipment, including the hospital’s only x ray machine, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has said.1The attack took place at dawn on 13 April, when some patients received calls from the Israeli military telling them to leave immediately. This forced staff and patients, some critically ill, outside.
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bmj.com | Elisabeth Mahase
What has the Barcode 1 study found? The Barcode 1 study looked at the effect on screening when using a polygenic risk score, based on 130 genetic variants associated with increased risk of prostate cancer. Initial results from the ongoing single group study have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.1From March to July 2019 just over 40 000 people from 69 primary care centres in the Midlands and the South of England were invited to take part in the study.
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bmj.com | Elisabeth Mahase
News & ViewsNHS leaders call for... NHS leaders call for redundancy fund to cover “staggering” government cuts News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r766 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r766 NHS leaders in England have urged the government to “rapidly create a national staff redundancy fund” after integrated care boards (ICBs) and NHS trusts were told to halve their costs.
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bmj.com | Elisabeth Mahase
News & ViewsGovernment’s plan for... Government’s plan for data service aims to speed up access to datasets and clinical trial approval News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r721 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r721 The UK government has announced plans for a new Health Data Research Service, which will give researchers a secure single access point to national scale datasets as well as NHS trust level data.
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bmj.com | Elisabeth Mahase
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AI tools have a lot of potential to improve medicine and the healthcare landscape. But how are they regulated? And what does 'gold standard' evidence look like? @bmj_latest https://t.co/yOHzo2uirn
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