An older woman with dementia and type 2 diabetes was started on semaglutide and subsequently developed severe psychological and physical symptoms, including apathy, significant weight loss and ...

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a slowly progressing inflammatory and degenerative disorder of the brain caused by a mutant measles virus. The diagnosis of SSPE is based on ...

Menstrual cups are increasingly used to control menstrual bleeding. Complication rates are sparsely described, but some serious complications have been reported. We present a rare case of ...

Review articles1 and dermatology textbook presentations of scabies2 often contain no images of its dermoscopic features and, in fact, may omit mention of dermoscopy as an aid in diagnosis. Scabies ...

Three unrelated patients attended the accident and emergency department with pain and blurred vision after ocular injury with a Nerf gun. Two were adults and one was a child, all of which presented ...

Returning to the UK after a trip to Argentina, a woman in her 50s felt generally unwell. The patient was initially treated by her general practitioner (GP) with oral antibiotics for a left-sided ear ...

Despite the perception that medical students and doctors should be ‘invincible’, mental health challenges are common in this population. Medical students and doctors have low levels of help seeking ...

By definition, anteroposterior (AP) compression type 1 (APC-1) injury is a type of pelvic ring injury, which is widely acknowledged as ‘stable’. Unstable forms of this injury are very rare and present ...

Erythema nodosum (EN) is a common dermatological manifestation with many different aetiologies. Often however, the aetiology remains unidentified. We present here a 42-year-old male patient with an EN ...

Hypercalcaemia in pregnancy presents with altered mental status, constipation, fatigue and nausea. Hypercalcaemia mediated by parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) secondary to benign breast ...

A 38-year-old woman presented with 1-month history of restlessness, decreased sleep, religious song auditory hallucination and delusion of persecution and reference. She had no insight into her ...

A woman in her 70s presented to the hospital being generally unwell 8 days following the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination. She was in stage III acute kidney injury (AKI) with ...