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Health spending is driving people into poverty in Europe and central Asia
Many people fall into financial hardship because of the cost of healthcare—but political tweaks could help them. Mun-Keat Looi reports
Health spending is driving people into poverty in Europe and central Asia
Many people fall into financial hardship because of the cost of healthcare—but political tweaks could help them. Mun-Keat Looi reports
Christmas 2023: The space doctors
Few doctors get to go on real space missions, but they do conduct space research, often in extreme locations, Mun-Keat Looi reports
Christmas 2023: The space doctors
Few doctors get to go on real space missions, but they do conduct space research, often in extreme locations, Mun-Keat Looi reports
Enable, engage, and innovate for quality
Quality healthcare is not a “nice to have” but must be consistently delivered to everyone, everywhere. Read this collection of articles
Enable, engage, and innovate for quality
Quality healthcare is not a “nice to have” but must be consistently delivered to everyone, everywhere. Read this collection of articles
Obstetrician who sterilised woman without consent is suspended for 12 months
“Astounding inequality” in England affects risk of dying from cancer, researchers report
Extreme heat could cause more than 10 000 annual deaths in the UK by 2050s, warn experts
Christmas 2023: A drug target for erectile dysfunction to help improve fertility, sexual activity, and wellbeing
Oral cancers are rising in the UK
Role model: Tom Miller
The BMJ Appeal 2023-24: The Syrian health workers pulling 24 hour shifts to keep their maternity hospital open
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Sixty GP surgeries set to transfer to new private provider
Birdwatching and medicine: stories of curiosity and wonder
Texas Supreme Court blocks permitted abortion for woman with non-viable pregnancy
Covid-19: Preliminary figures show 1.2% of people in England had infection at end of November
Immigration crackdown risks worsening NHS and care staff shortages, leaders warn
UK medical organisations back dedicated sex and gender research policies
Covid inquiry: What did Johnson say about underestimated risks, excess deaths, and his missing WhatsApps?
North Middlesex University Hospital: CQC rates maternity services inadequate, blaming poor leadership
Research
Christmas 2023: Efficacy of cola ingestion for oesophageal food bolus impaction
Conservative management versus laparoscopic cholecystectomy in adults with gallstone disease
Social media use and health risk behaviours in young people
Untreated cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 and cervical cancer
Implementation of a high sensitivity cardiac troponin I assay and risk of myocardial infarction or death at five years
Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness against post-covid-19 condition
Association between patient-surgeon gender concordance and mortality after surgery
ROB-ME: a tool for assessing risk of bias due to missing evidence in systematic reviews with meta-analysis
Comment
Sunak’s smoke-free generation: spare a thought for the tobacco industry
A whole sector approach to policy change will accelerate integration of sex and gender in research
Exploring together the emotional impact of the climate and nature crisis
John Launer: Saving the planet—hubris and humility
Climate action should learn from building design
New Zealand reverses landmark tobacco controls
When I use a word . . . Medicines regulation—chloroform
Communicating scientific advice: lessons from the UK covid-19 inquiry
Pregnant women in Gaza face perilous conditions as maternity services and infrastructure crumble
Education
Advances in the management of chronic kidney disease
Preventing cervical cancer: what are the risks and benefits of different treatments?
Cirrhosis in over 16s: assessment and management—updated summary of NICE guidance
Sharp Scratch episode 99: A problem shared is a problem halved
The power of the small stuff
Advances in the understanding and management of alcohol-related liver disease
Chronic prostatitis (chronic pelvic pain syndrome)
Paracetamol use in adults
Early, intense therapy for language problems after a stroke is linked to the greatest benefits
COP28
COP28: Loss and damage fund a step forward but not enough, say climate experts
Malaria: Climate change poses “substantial risk to progress,” WHO warns
The climate emergency could be the ultimate health opportunity, says WHO’s Maria Neira
Health is the engine to drive more urgent action on climate change, says WHO
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Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one global health emergency
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Advances in the management of type 2 diabetes in adults
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Advances in mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke
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Association between perinatal mortality and morbidity and customised and non-customised birthweight centiles in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Wales, and England
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