BMJ

30/10/2025

New BMJ Research: Intracoronary infusion of stem cells within 3-7 days after acute myocardial infarction reduced the incidence of heart failure and its related hospital admission, finds clinical trial.

Includes a visual abstract summarising the study

Open access Research

28/10/2025

Attacks on healthcare workers & facilities have surged in the past five years. The types of weapons used to inflict injury and cause death in healthcare workers are different depending on the context of the war.

In Myanmar and Sudan fi****ms are the majority cause. This reflects more ground-based conflict between factions and independent groups versus ruling authorities.

The Ukraine war features more artillery, ground launched explosives, missiles, rockets, drones, which are the hallmark of Russia’s offensive.

In Lebanon injuries are all planes and explosives, reflecting the bombardment from Israeli forces.

Palestine (Occupied Palestinian Territory, OPT) is a mix. As with Lebanon, Israeli bombardment with planes and explosives is common alongside drones and shelling in Gaza. However, hospital raids—where Israeli forces surround hospital complexes and then enter carrying fi****ms, arresting healthcare staff and destroying equipment—have also become a common feature
https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2153?utm_campaign=usage&utm_content=tbmj_sprout&utm_id=BMJ005&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

26/10/2025

New clinical update: Management of non-specific low back pain without drugs.

What do we know about the evidence around common interventions?

Use our interactive infographic to explore the evidence in the link ⬇️
https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj-2025-086052?utm_campaign=usage&utm_content=tbmj_sprout&utm_id=BMJ005&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

25/10/2025

Where are healthcare attacks most prevalent? Our new data visualisation maps the violence against medical personnel and facilities over the past five years, who is behind it, and the tactics that have made attacking hospitals and health workers a strategy of war
https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2153?utm_campaign=usage&utm_content=tbmj_sprout&utm_id=BMJ005&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

24/10/2025

Restricted sugar intake during early life is linked to lower risks of several heart conditions in adulthood, including myocardial infarction, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and stroke, finds a BMJ study using data from the end of UK sugar rationing in 1953

Findings support advice to minimise added sugars in pregnancy and infant diets

23/10/2025

Attacks on healthcare workers and facilities have dramatically increased over the past five years.

Our new data visualisations explore this critical issue, revealing the alarming trends and the devastating impact on health systems worldwide
https://bit.ly/4or30Ei

16/10/2025

A $199 “brain protection” device—the Q-Collar—is being marketed to athletes and even teenagers.

But a new The BMJ investigation reveals a troubling backstory:
▪️Flawed and contradictory studies
▪️Recycled and inconsistent data
▪️Millions in marketing and lobbying
▪️And an FDA authorisation granted despite internal reviewers warning the evidence didn’t demonstrate clinical benefit.

The Q-Collar’s creators once claimed woodpeckers inspired it—but that “science” doesn’t hold up. Now, researchers say it’s time for the FDA to re-evaluate its decision.

Read the full investigation 👉 https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2028?utm_campaign=usage&utm_content=tbmj_sprout&utm_id=BMJ005&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

Free to read

16/10/2025

New BMJ Research: Comparative efficacy and safety of exercise modalities in knee osteoarthritis.

Study concludes walking, cycling, and swimming are likely the best exercise for knee osteoarthritis

Open access Research