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1	Nov 2, '21	NEW: Our latest investigation hears from a whistleblower engaged in Pfizer’s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial. Her evidence raises serious questions about data integrity and regulato	72.2×	0	26k	17k	3k
2	Feb 9, '23	Two doses of mRNA covid-19 vaccine during pregnancy are highly effective against delta and moderately effective against omicron infection, and are linked to a lower risk of hospita	67.2×	640k	567	235	113
3	Dec 20, '22	What is the best biscuit for busy NHS staff tea breaks? Find out by reading the results of the Direct Uptake of Nutrition and Caffeine Study (DUNCS): #BMJInfographic #ChristmasBMJ	47.2×	449k	1.4k	515	79
4	Feb 24, '23	Patients with long covid may present in primary care with symptoms of palpitations (tachycardia) triggered by standing or minimal exertion. This article summarises the key steps fo	41.2×	392k	820	373	309
5	Mar 8, '23	“The day after the ban we found the door to the hospital was blocked for women students by Taliban forces." Female doctors are disappearing after Taliban bans, leaving "huge gaps"	28×	267k	838	378	7
6	Jul 21, '24	"The term “junior doctor” will be replaced in September. The new name, “resident doctor,” gives these doctors the respect they deserve." We should all get behind the new term “resi	27.5×	262k	3.4k	681	28
7	Jul 18, '23	Decisions taken to end the universal wearing of face masks in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries are placing patients and staff at greater risk of covid infection, a group of healthc	18.3×	174k	865	339	63
8	Sep 24, '24	"The idea that staff with only two years’ formal training could safely see undifferentiated patients without direct supervision was always fundamentally flawed." @HelenRSalisbury o	16.7×	160k	566	233	29
9	Feb 17, '24	#Exercise is an effective treatment for depression, with walking or jogging, yoga, and strength training more effective than other exercises, particularly when intense, finds this	14.9×	142k	774	392	174
10	Nov 13, '20	Science is being suppressed for political and financial gain. Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale, and it is harmful to public health, argues @KamranAbbasi	13.8×	0	5.2k	3k	297
11	Nov 17, '22	Covid-19 vaccines and drugs were developed at “warp speed” and now experts are concerned that the US Food and Drug Administration inspected too few clinical trial sites. Maryanne D	11.2×	0	4.5k	2.4k	376
12	Sep 23, '23	The lives of many doctors with long covid have been destroyed by an illness they caught while doing their jobs. They deserve more support from the government and the NHS, reports @	10.9×	104k	562	229	43
13	Feb 22, '22	The government of Mexico City handed out nearly 200 000 “ivermectin based kits” last year to people who had tested positive for covid-19, without telling them they were subjects in	10.6×	0	4.4k	2.6k	85
14	Jan 15, '22	Patients with the omicron variant of covid-19 shed virus for longer after symptoms emerge, show data from Japan, potentially jeopardising hopes that the period of isolation for peo	10×	0	3.8k	2.1k	397
15	Aug 5, '21	"No child deserves to be starting life 20 yards behind any other child from the day they are born." @MarcusRashford calls on healthcare professionals to help spread the word about	6.5×	0	3.9k	1.3k	30
16	Apr 7, '20	Once this is done, there must be complete transparency about how the NHS came to be left in this exposed position, how social care had been stripped away, and how those in power wi	6.1×	0	2.5k	1.7k	41
17	Aug 26, '18	More than 41 000 children and adults across Europe have been infected with measles in the first six months of 2018 and at least 37 people have died, show figures from @WHO	5.3×	0	915	1.6k	17
18	Jan 13, '23	"If your genuine concern is the health and wellbeing of the population, then you don’t waste time contesting plausible data on excess deaths or refusing to hold meaningful talks wi	4.8×	45k	622	200	7
19	May 7, '21	Given the rarity of severe covid-19 outcomes for children and limited clarity of risks, the criteria for emergency use authorization do not appear to be met for children, argue @We	4.7×	0	2.2k	956	107
20	Sep 29, '21	Congratulations to Professor Christina Pagel for constantly discussing science, breaking it down and making it digestible and keeping the public engaged during the pandemic @chrisc	4.2×	0	3.1k	435	9
21	Sep 29, '21	Congratulations to Professor Devi Sridhar for staying true to science and communicating with clarity in the covid pandemic @devisridhar #TheBMJAwards	4.2×	0	2.7k	315	11
22	Nov 16, '20	Spending the equivalent of 77% of the NHS annual revenue budget on an unevaluated, underdesigned national programme leading to an insufficiently supported intervention—in many case	4.0×	0	1.7k	854	54
23	Mar 17, '20	Scientists and senior doctors have backed claims by France’s health minister that people showing symptoms of covid-19 should use paracetamol (acetaminophen) rather than ibuprofen,	3.9×	0	1.1k	1.2k	68
24	Jun 16, '19	“The best thing you can do is speak up. Ask, ‘Are you ok?’ or ‘You don’t seem yourself. Do you want to talk?’ The smallest gesture can make the greatest difference. Let them know t	3.7×	0	1.6k	974	45
25	Sep 21, '19	The health benefits of physical activity are proved and wide ranging, exceeding that of any drug. This #BMJEducation article offers a practical guide to help clinicians discuss phy	3.6×	0	1.4k	950	96
26	Sep 2, '21	Teachers and their household members were not at increased risk of hospital admission with covid-19 at any time during the 2020-21 academic year compared with similar working age a	3.6×	0	1.4k	743	184
27	Oct 7, '21	The government has refused to release the minutes of the meeting in which its vaccine advisory committee decided not to recommend vaccinating all 12-15 year olds against covid-19 o	3.5×	0	1.3k	927	80
28	Dec 31, '20	"Today we remember those doctors who have sadly died of covid-19 in the UK this year" @TheBMA	3.3×	0	1.8k	639	15
29	Nov 14, '20	"The pandemic has revealed how the medical-political complex can be manipulated in an emergency—a time when it is even more important to safeguard science" Read this powerful edito	3.2×	0	1.2k	706	84
30	Sep 3, '21	Children are returning to school against a background of community infection levels 26 times higher than at the same time last year, and with the more transmissible Delta variant.	3.0×	0	1.2k	712	45
31	Sep 17, '19	The health benefits of physical activity are proved and wide ranging, exceeding that of any drug. So what can physicians do to help patients become more active and help them overco	2.9×	0	1.1k	778	74
32	Jan 30, '22	"12 years ago we called for the immediate release of raw data from clinical trials. We reiterate that call now. Data must be available when trial results are announced, published,	2.9×	0	1.4k	666	47
33	Jan 15, '21	Doctors in Norway have been told to conduct more thorough evaluations of very frail elderly patients in line to receive the Pfizer BioNTec vaccine against #COVID19, following the d	2.8×	0	866	755	76
34	Dec 23, '20	The absence of strong evidence that asymptomatic people are a driver of transmission is another good reason for pausing the roll out of mass testing in schools, universities, and c	2.8×	0	1.1k	642	94
35	Oct 16, '21	Was it fatalism that allowed 138 000 covid deaths in the UK? "The wording is a weasel explanation for the UK’s calamitous pandemic failures. Negligence, incompetence, and derelicti	2.8×	0	1.3k	673	29
36	Jun 4, '18	“We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons. Abandoning using the number of publications as a measure of ability would be a start.” Doug Altman	2.8×	0	1.1k	751	22
37	Nov 16, '17	Doctors share the same basic physiology as pilots and bus drivers, so why doesn't healthcare place the same importance on the effects of fatigue? #BMJAnalysis	2.6×	0	932	784	0
38	Nov 20, '20	Remdesivir is not suggested for patients admitted to hospital with covid-19, regardless of how severely ill they are, because there is currently no evidence that it improves surviv	2.5×	0	865	531	78
39	Feb 28, '19	Many doctors admit to crying at work. Probably still more have done so but been unwilling to admit it for fear that it could be considered unprofessional. However, it’s increasingl	2.5×	0	967	525	42
40	Sep 26, '22	NEW Practice Pointer and #BMJInfographic on treating patients with long covid in primary care An update to help clinicians to answer their patients' questions on long covid @trishg	2.5×	0	820	408	369
41	Aug 19, '19	"One of the difficulties I face with doctors is trying to make them understand that knowing everything about a disease doesn’t mean they know what it is like to live with it" #BMJO	2.4×	0	1.1k	570	31
42	Jun 15, '21	"Schools are where infections are rising fastest. Yet schools are where the basic mitigations of face coverings, space, & fresh air are not simply missing, but—in the case of m	2.4×	0	995	610	19
43	Dec 14, '20	Authorship anatomy: a guide for scholars. Which one are you? #BMJInfographic @will_s_t #BMJChristmas	2.4×	0	1k	351	66
44	Sep 4, '18	"Many people seek to make money from those who don’t understand science. Doctors should call out bollocksology when they see it." @mgtmccartney sums up her four and a half years as	2.3×	0	825	511	21
45	Sep 17, '19	“Ask, ‘Are you ok?’ or ‘You don’t seem yourself. Do you want to talk?’ The smallest gesture can make the greatest difference...Let them know they’re not alone—we all have days when	2.3×	0	967	600	31
46	Feb 6, '22	"Mr Johnson, on behalf of all those who are bereaved, chronically sick, clinically vulnerable, the frontline workers, and ordinary citizens who made sacrifices large and small. You	2.2×	0	1.2k	468	16
47	Mar 10, '21	The NHS Test and Trace service in England failed to deliver its central promise to avoid a second national lockdown and there is no clear evidence its “unimaginable” costs have bee	2.1×	0	822	514	22
48	Mar 18, '19	The BMJ and our sister journals will no longer carry ads for breastmilk substitutes. "We believe this is the right thing to do based on our desire to support the WHO code, promote	2.1×	0	1k	433	6
49	Aug 29, '18	Why many doctors need to change the way they communicate about patients: Our manner of speaking and writing about patients not only reflects, but also impacts how we feel about the	2.1×	0	713	545	23
50	Oct 25, '22	The FDA has been criticised for taking more than a year to follow up a potential increase in serious adverse events in older people receiving Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine, @MaryanneDe	2.0×	0	841	466	66
51	Jul 7, '21	Long covid has not only been ignored in policy making decisions, and barely mentioned in the roadmap out of lockdown—it has been almost completely absent from the government’s publ	2.0×	0	882	475	24
52	Feb 14, '22	The only reliable count of covid-19 infections in the UK now comes from a weekly survey by the Office for National Statistics. Scrapping it would leave the UK flying blind, says @H	2.0×	0	1k	434	23
53	Jul 16, '21	"Denying everyone the best chance of being protected through vaccination and relying instead on 'personal responsibility' to tackle an airborne and highly contagious infectious dis	2.0×	0	1.1k	412	16
54	Aug 8, '20	Fifty million face masks bought by the UK government as part of a £252m contract will not be used in the NHS because of safety concerns, the government has admitted. The FFP2 masks	1.9×	0	589	576	12
55	Oct 21, '19	Diagnosing and managing hypertension in adults: #BMIInfographic summarises the recommended sequence for medication titration @will_s_t	1.9×	0	718	440	146
56	Aug 29, '21	#BMJInfographic A waste of lifesaving covid-19 vaccines New graphic shows billions of doses of vaccines ordered by rich countries are due to expire @will_s_t	1.9×	0	581	456	39
57	Mar 31, '18	"Resilience should be for the difficult emotional burden of caring—not for unacceptable and potentially dangerous working conditions" David Oliver's latest column	1.8×	0	751	509	9
58	Dec 19, '19	The “publish or perish” mantra is well established in academic circles, but do researchers have to sacrifice leisure time to achieve this ideal? Yes, finds new study, which shows t	1.8×	0	691	436	52
59	Sep 1, '22	NEW analysis argues that UK covid policy did not give children sufficient priority and questions the evidence behind government decisions: @dgurdasani1 @chrischirp @martinmckee @Su	1.8×	0	748	382	86
60	Aug 11, '20	Post-acute covid-19 seems to be a multisystem disease, sometimes occurring after a relatively mild acute illness. #BMJEducation article provides guidance for GPs to help support pa	1.8×	0	691	475	71
61	Nov 25, '19	Healthcare workers in Hong Kong have condemned the Hong Kong Police Force for failing to abide by international humanitarian norms during clashes with protesters, after doctors and	1.8×	0	583	590	3
62	Mar 31, '19	Preventing suicides among doctors: "The qualities, which make a good and caring doctor, are also the qualities, which place us at higher risk of mental illness" Powerful piece from	1.8×	0	678	476	44
63	Apr 4, '21	Azithromycin, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir-ritonavir, and interferon-beta do not appear to have any important benefits, concludes the latest update to this living systematic revie	1.8×	0	852	360	55
64	Feb 8, '19	Hospitals need to actively encourage staff to make sure they take breaks and are adequately hydrated and fed, and remove any barriers to this in their everyday work #BMJOpinion @Br	1.7×	0	712	418	9
65	Mar 18, '18	We must remember how scary hospitals can be for our patients: "Many of our patients may be feeling scared when, for us, it’s just another day at work"	1.7×	0	668	479	5
66	Nov 9, '20	The Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies has renewed its call for urgent reform of the government’s covid-19 test and trace system, urging that it be replaced by a	1.7×	0	850	388	10
67	Mar 5, '21	The Wellcome Trust, one of the world’s top funders of health research, stands to gain financially from the #covid19 pandemic, raising questions about transparency and accountabilit	1.7×	0	602	390	47
68	Mar 23, '20	A professor of clinical immunology at the University of Florence has reported how blanket testing in a completely isolated village of roughly 3000 people in northern Italy saw the	1.7×	0	615	449	18
69	Aug 2, '19	For too long, medicine has been a cult that deifies workaholism. We can likely all agree that we need a cultural shift. This starts by senior folks speaking up and standing side by	1.7×	0	749	394	24
70	Oct 30, '17	"Doctors should care about cycling, as it’s one of the best preventive health interventions we have" @mgtmccartney	1.6×	0	556	493	0
71	Feb 9, '21	Experts have warned that schools must be reopened with caution, amid emerging evidence from Israel and Italy that more young children are being infected with new variants of covid-	1.6×	0	538	431	30
72	Aug 19, '19	Doctors have warned that the current situation in Indian administered Kashmir, where the government has imposed a security lockdown and communications blackout, is preventing peopl	1.6×	0	529	459	6
73	Aug 2, '20	Recent findings on the role of T cells in covid-19 give us cause to be cautiously optimistic that cellular immune responses could be a valuable ally in global efforts to control th	1.6×	0	846	328	39
74	Aug 6, '21	More than 40% of those eligible for @NHSHealthyStart are still not registered. @MarcusRashford asks healthcare professionals for their help in encouraging as many eligible people a	1.6×	0	1.1k	219	4
75	Jul 1, '20	Why Scotland’s slow and steady approach to covid-19 is working @devisridhar @Adriel_KH_Chen	1.6×	0	830	366	17
76	May 17, '20	Doctors are dying. The combination of a novel virus, no treatment, and inadequate supplies of personal protective equipment is putting frontline health workers at risk of serious h	1.6×	0	599	429	22
77	Sep 4, '21	Compared with adults of working age who are otherwise similar, teachers and their household members were not found to be at increased risk of hospital admission with covid-19, acco	1.6×	0	646	321	83
78	Apr 29, '20	An antibody blood test for covid-19, which the manufacturer Abbott claims is 99% accurate, has been certified for use by the European Union	1.5×	0	684	366	30
79	Jan 7, '22	A US study of 46 079 pregnancies has found that vaccination against covid-19 was safe and did not increase the risk of preterm birth or small for gestational age babies	1.5×	0	745	352	35
80	Feb 2, '22	A study found that people with a BMI of 23 had the lowest risk of admission to hospital, intensive care, or death with covid-19. As BMI increased, so did the risk of poorer outcome	1.5×	0	638	276	53
81	Dec 2, '21	Is it risky to sing in a choir or eat in a small restaurant? How much difference does it make if I open windows or clean surfaces? A new #BMJInfographic helps people decide what to	1.5×	0	552	331	100
82	Aug 22, '20	"We have experienced the hypocrisy of an approach that advises the public to lose weight, exercise, and reduce stress, while driving the medical workforce to work long hours in unh	1.5×	0	753	358	8
83	Jan 3, '22	This open letter, signed by more than 100 public health experts, researchers, and healthcare workers, issues an urgent call for global “vaccines-plus” action against covid-19 @adam	1.5×	0	658	324	24
84	Feb 6, '19	When a health professional flags up a problem, it is called an incident report. When a patient does the same, it is called a complaint. How language affects safety culture: #patien	1.4×	0	560	390	11
85	Oct 25, '20	Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, there has been an unparalleled global effort to characterise the virus and the clinical course of disease. What do we know about the pathophysiol	1.4×	0	615	303	89
86	Jul 6, '21	The UK is an outlier by allowing children to remain unvaccinated at a time when lifting restrictions will increase covid-19 infection rates, say Karl Friston & Anthony Costello	1.4×	0	604	377	19
87	Jun 22, '18	Access to medical care, a human right, must also be guaranteed to Julian Assange, says @SeanLoveMD, a physician who has met with him several times	1.4×	0	597	372	2
88	Sep 3, '22	Pandemic policy on children and schools reflected UK based scientific narratives that did not align with global scientific consensus @dgurdasani1 @chrischirp @martinmckee @SusanMic	1.4×	0	504	299	63
89	Jul 16, '21	Infections both matter and are avoidable. Instead of allowing infections to rise, the government should take urgent actions to inform and protect the public and prepare for autumn,	1.4×	0	655	348	13
90	Feb 24, '21	As testing and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine are hailed as UK pandemic successes, why won’t Oxford University or the government disclose the “long list” of financial interests of	1.3×	0	525	348	28
91	Jul 14, '21	As the UK government vote to make vaccination mandatory for care workers, @AllysonPollock and @DrLJBHayes argue why they think it is unnecessary, disproportionate, and misguided:	1.2×	0	553	271	21
92	Apr 29, '21	Encouraging self-testing at home twice a week for all adults is a misguided policy, unlikely to reduce transmission, warn public health experts @DrMikeWGill @angelaraffle	1.2×	0	558	266	16
93	Jan 2, '22	"Children are the least protected group in England and their needs are being forgotten as we race to boost adults." @chrischirp and @adsquires on what needs to happen next to make	1.1×	0	600	246	15
94	Apr 18, '21	The catastrophic Brazilian response to covid-19 may amount to a crime against humanity #BMJOpinion @Deisy_Ventura	1.1×	0	629	215	8
95	May 5, '22	The French Medicines Agency has said that it will file criminal charges with the Marseilles public prosecutor against the local hospital-university institute for infectious disease	1.1×	0	538	191	24
96	Apr 21, '21	The UK government is facing legal action from the @GoodLawProject over a £102.6m contract for FFP3 respirators to be worn by healthcare staff treating covid-19 patients, which was	1.0×	0	586	211	4
97	Sep 27	🔊 Are you an early careers researcher who wants to publish in The BMJ? Endgames submissions are open! These case quiz articles focus on COMMON conditions with a strong clinical im	1.0×	9.5k	12	5	5
98	Oct 27, '21	Brazil's federal government has done everything in its power to let covid-19 follow its natural course, say @Deisy_Ventura and colleagues. "The international community has a duty t	0.9×	0	556	140	18
99	Oct 30, '22	"The need for social care is not inevitable. Ageing does not have to be associated with a loss of fitness." @scarlettmcnally looks at how exercise could be a miracle cure for socia	0.8×	0	566	97	9
100	Oct 26, '22	Proton pump inhibitors are one of the most widely used classes of drugs globally, often taken for longer than needed and at high financial cost to society. What's the evidence for	0.7×	0	534	79	11
101	Nov 3, '22	“Keeping animals, whether one or many, can really enrich your life and the lives of those around you, including your patients." Community doctor Clare Nettleton on how animals on t	0.6×	0	515	71	1

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