Channel
@British_Medical_Journal
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13,463subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 22 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
| Telegram ID | -1001409801003 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @British_Medical_Journal |
| Description | All the latest articles published on BMJ Discussion Group https://t.me/Medical_Professionals_Forum Contact us https://t.me/Contact_Updates_in_Medicine_Bot |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 31 October 2021— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 22 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 22 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/British_Medical_Journal |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug 2026, 14:45 | 13,463 | no change |
| 22 Aug 2026, 14:30 | 13,463 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 13 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 21 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (13 August 2026 – 21 August 2026) |
| Views total | 7,863 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 22 Aug 2026, 14:45 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 22 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Violaceous rash on the face, upper body, and thighs http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100277.short?rss=1 A woman in her 30s presented with a two month history of painless, non-itchy reddish purple plaques and nodules which first appeared on her abdomen and gradually spread to her upper body and thighs (fig 1). She had no relevant medical history and was not taking any medication.bmj;394/aug20_5/e100277/F1F1f1F…
Medical news in brief http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100579.short?rss=1 ObesityRates in England double in 30 yearsObesity rates in England have doubled in three decades, with 14.3 million people now classed as obese. The increase has come despite 14 government strategies in that time aiming to cut obesity levels, said a King’s Fund analysis. At least 7.2 million more adults now have obesity than in 1993, th…
Intravenous iron to treat anaemia before cardiac surgery (ITACS): international, double blind, placebo controlled randomised trial http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100407.short?rss=1 AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the effects of intravenous iron on red cell transfusion and recovery after cardiac surgery.DesignInternational, multicentre, double blind, placebo controlled randomised trial (ITACS).Setting33 hospita…
Cyclospora: “Explosive diarrhoea” cases now spread to almost every US state http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100614.short?rss=1 An unprecedented summer surge in cases of cyclosporiasis, a foodborne, diarrhoea causing disease, has now affected almost every US state, according to health authorities in the country.More than 15 700 laboratory confirmed cases have been counted to date, said the US Ce…
Industrial action is considered in Scotland as senior doctors enter formal dispute with government http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100617.short?rss=1 Senior doctors in Scotland may take industrial action, as a formal dispute has been triggered between the BMA and Holyrood.Leaders of the union’s Consultants Committee and its SAS (specialist, associate specialist, and specialty doctors) committee announced tha…
Child lung health in London has improved since ULEZ was introduced, study claims http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100598.short?rss=1 Improved air quality in London in recent years has been associated with a measurable improvement in lung function among primary school children who live there, a new study concludes.1Researchers tracked the lung function of thousands of children over a four year period after the…
Prostate cancer screening: are we evaluating the right comparator? http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100551.short?rss=1 McCartney highlights the risks of overdiagnosis, overtreatment, and resource diversion associated with prostate cancer screening.1 These concerns remain central to policy decisions. One methodological issue, however, deserves attention.The UK National Screening Committee’s recommendation is o…
Interventions to help mothers stay smoke-free post partum http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100484.short?rss=1 In past decades, it was common to see the damage caused by smoking during pregnancy, with the births of many babies born small for their gestational age and often with other important health problems. An analysis of a population of Scottish children born between 1997 and 2009 found that 7% of deaths i…
Effectiveness of the BabyBreathe intervention for maintaining postpartum smoking cessation: multicentre pragmatic randomised controlled trial http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100242.short?rss=1 AbstractObjectiveTo assess the effectiveness of an interpersonal and digital intervention, BabyBreathe, for maintaining postpartum smoking cessation.DesignMulticentre pragmatic individually randomised controlled trial.…
UK salmonella outbreak leaves one dead and more than 200 ill http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100606.short?rss=1 One person has died and 207 have become ill in a UK outbreak of salmonella, health authorities have said.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has launched an investigation into the recent spike in confirmed cases, most of which have occurred since the beginning of July.1 The contamination is genet…
Patient died after delayed Advice and Guidance response to GP query, says safety watchdog http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100603.short?rss=1 A patient with epilepsy who had repeated seizures died after their GP struggled to obtain specialist neurology input through the NHS’s Advice and Guidance (A&G) system, the national patient safety watchdog has found.The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB)…
Prostate cancer “awareness paradox” for patients http://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100548.short?rss=1 McCartney’s article on the UK National Screening Committee’s recent recommendation for targeted prostate cancer screening highlights the “awareness paradox”: health campaigns have successfully increased public awareness of prostate cancer but not the understanding of the limitations and possible …
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @British_Medical_Journal. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 3 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 22 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The BMJ (British Medical Journal)” (@British_Medical_Journal), 13,463 subscribers as measured 22 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/British_Medical_Journal.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.