Intended for healthcare professionals

Beverage consumption and mortality among adults with type 2 diabetes

Replacing sugar sweetened beverages with coffee, tea, or plain water was associated with lower all cause mortality among adults with type 2 diabetes, finds this study

Editorial∙Beverages and health outcomes in adults with type 2 diabetes

Surgical versus non-surgical treatment for sciatica

Low certainty evidence suggests that discectomy was superior to non-surgical treatment in reducing leg pain and disability in people with sciatica

research | Apr 19

Surgical versus non-surgical treatment for sciatica

Low certainty evidence suggests that discectomy was superior to non-surgical treatment in reducing leg pain and disability in people with sciatica

research

Apr 19

Funders crack down on unpublished clinical trials—but is it enough?

Failure to report clinical trial results is a longstanding problem in medical research, but funders are starting to take action

feature | Apr 19

Funders crack down on unpublished clinical trials—but is it enough?

Failure to report clinical trial results is a longstanding problem in medical research, but funders are starting to take action

feature

Apr 19

Meagre spending on tobacco control is costing the economy billions

The latest government plans to cut smoking rates aren't adequately funded, say doctors, academics, and charities in this open letter

opinion | Apr 18

Meagre spending on tobacco control is costing the economy billions

The latest government plans to cut smoking rates aren't adequately funded, say doctors, academics, and charities in this open letter

opinion

Apr 18

Obesity: Politicians’ fears over “nanny-statism” have contributed to failed strategies, says report

news | Apr 20

Recognising value

editor's choice | Apr 20

Tom Nolan’s research reviews—20 April 2023

opinion | Apr 20

How to save £20 000 and 780 staff hours a year on a single ward—by making one climate friendly change

feature | Apr 20

Anaphylaxis: Senior coroner calls for national leadership and research to prevent deaths

news | Apr 19

Scarlett McNally: Let’s talk about contraception

opinion | Apr 19

Helen Salisbury: Experts at the front door

opinion | Apr 18

Latest articles

How did consultants, other non-striking doctors, and staff maintain services last week—and did the experience offer any lessons for the future?

feature

Mar 22

Strikes are a grim prospect, but a broken NHS is worse

Many junior doctors who are striking fear for the NHS's future, writes Jennifer Darlow

opinion

Mar 12

Partha Kar: Senior colleagues must speak up for junior doctors in the strikes

opinion | Apr 6

Make us a credible offer and we’ll suspend strike, junior doctors’ leaders tell Barclay

news | Apr 6

BMA delays ballot on consultant strike, as government talks continue

news | Apr 3

Junior doctors will strike for 96 hours from 11 April

news | Mar 23

BMJ Medicine

Inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 case rates by ethnicity, religion, measures of socioeconomic position, English proficiency, and self-reported disability

People queue to receive their Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre inside the Brighton Centre, Sussex, as the UK continues in a third lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Picture date: Tuesday February 9, 2021.

New research finds that SARS-CoV-2 case rates varied across different sociodemographic groups, particularly ethnicity and religion, in the second and third waves of the covid-19 pandemic

Apr 3

Reproductive outcomes in women and men conceived by assisted reproductive technologies

Artificial insemination illustration, blue background.

Men and women who were conceived by assisted reproductive technology and become parents do not appear to be at increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes

Apr 5

Tracking the progress of inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 infections into the third covid-19 wave

Apr 3

Impact of covid-19 vaccination on long covid

Feb 28

The interplay between inflammatory cytokines and cardiometabolic disease

Feb 14

Clinical Outcomes Following SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Myocarditis

Feb 1