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Obesity conference ditches Nestlé as sponsor after protests

Obesity conference ditches Nestlé as sponsor after protests

The European Congress on Obesity has removed Nestlé as a sponsor, following widespread condemnation on social media. Now an open letter, published in The BMJ, is calling for the organisation to go further and remove all corporate sponsorship and presence at its scientific events

Opinion∙A call to the European Congress on Obesity: It’s time to remove corporate sponsorship

A healthcare worker on a break in India during the covid-19 pandemic

Support for clinicians with moral loss after the pandemic

Clare Delany and Rosalind McDougall argue more attention should be given to moral distress as part of health system recovery plans

analysis | Mar 30

Support for clinicians with moral loss after the pandemic

Clare Delany and Rosalind McDougall argue more attention should be given to moral distress as part of health system recovery plans

A healthcare worker on a break in India during the covid-19 pandemic

Mar 30

Blank patient leaflet

Communication about anticancer drugs to patients and clinicians

Important information about cancer drug benefits, and related uncertainties, is frequently omitted from official prescription drug information sources for clinicians and patients in Europe

research | Mar 29

Communication about anticancer drugs to patients and clinicians

Important information about cancer drug benefits, and related uncertainties, is frequently omitted from official prescription drug information sources for clinicians and patients in Europe

Blank patient leaflet

Mar 29

A climate strike protest at Princeton University in September 2019

Stealing from the tobacco playbook, fossil fuel companies pour money into elite American universities

Paul Thacker examines how oil and gas companies have funded research to try to weaken messages on climate change and protect their interests

feature | Sep 14

Stealing from the tobacco playbook, fossil fuel companies pour money into elite American universities

Paul Thacker examines how oil and gas companies have funded research to try to weaken messages on climate change and protect their interests

A climate strike protest at Princeton University in September 2019

Sep 14

Sixty seconds on . . . the end of HEE

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CQC must overhaul the way it deals with whistleblowers, review concludes

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Palliative care can benefit people with dementia

opinion | Mar 31

Networked patients set the pace

opinion | Mar 31

How can we make better use of ethnicity data to improve healthcare services?

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Patient centred care: filling in the gaps

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David Oliver: Reflections from a hospital bed

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Europe’s cost of living crisis jeopardises medication adherence

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Junior doctors in England began a 72 hour walkout on 13 March in their ongoing dispute over pay and conditions

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

Doctors demonstration over pay

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Junior doctors’ strike—what do medical students need to know?

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Strikes, patient outcomes, and the cost of failing to act

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An observational study that looks at whether people with coeliac disease have a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease

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Some beneficial effects of covid vaccines on long covid are likely but estimating the size of the effect currently remains a challenge

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The interplay between inflammatory cytokines and cardiometabolic disease

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Clinical Outcomes Following SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Myocarditis

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