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The public finance cost of covid-19

Elections loom large in France’s pandemic policies

Solving retention to support workforce recovery post-pandemic

Pandemic panic and indiscriminate prescriptions drive India’s antimicrobial resistance

UK testing was “a shambles” so why hasn’t the government learnt from its mistakes, asks Paul Nurse

The growing health crisis on the world’s most perilous migrant crossing

How covid-19 has exposed the weaknesses in rural healthcare

The real reason that new UK medical schools are focusing on international students

What Prince Charles tells us about complementary medicine—an essay by Edzard Ernst

Ten things you need to know about the Health and Care Bill

Refugee housing in India reaches healthcare crisis point

Covid-19: What do we know about omicron sublineages?

Data and distrust hamper Russia’s vaccination programme

Covid-19: WHO efforts to bring vaccine manufacturing to Africa are undermined by the drug industry, documents show

What do we know about covid vaccines and preventing transmission?

Planning the healthcare workforce: how many GPs do we need?

The BMJ Interview: Peter Piot

Why doctors have a moral imperative to prescribe and support medical cannabis—an essay by David Nutt

How New Zealand’s covid-19 strategy failed Māori people

Covid-19: How Europe is approaching long covid

Facebook versus the BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong

The BMJ appeal 2021-22: “Doctors must raise their voices to advocate for those in Afghanistan”

The BMJ Interview: Rachel Levine on the greatest challenges in US health

How covid-19 vaccines exposed India’s adverse events reporting system

Why asylum seekers deserve better healthcare, and how we can give it to them

The BMJ, appeal 2021-22: “Without this team there would have been many more deaths”—the MSF workers dealing with mass casualty incidents in Afghanistan

How Yemen’s healthcare has been destroyed

What now for Sweden and covid-19?

Covid-19: The significance of India’s emerging “hybrid immunity”

Just a smidge, or a bridge too far? Slang use in the ICU

Injections of hope: supporting participants in clinical trials

The BMJ, appeal 2021-22: “We can’t turn women away”—providing maternity care under pressure in Afghanistan

The holly and the ivy: a festive platter of plant hazards

We all fall down: head injuries in nursery rhyme characters

The BMJ Interview: in conversation with Fiona Godlee

The end of the pandemic will not be televised

Building utopia from disaster: could the pandemic show a way to better healthcare? An essay by Agnes Arnold-Forster

Listening to illness: hearing gout through music

Anticipating the ageing trajectories of superheroes in the Marvel cinematic universe

B,iased O,utcome reporting G,uidelines for U,nderwhelming S,tudies (BOGUS) statement and checklist

Moosa Qureshi: My battle with the government over transparency and covid-19 pandemic preparedness

Covid-19: Whatever happened to the Novavax vaccine?

The US opened up access to health records—how do patients use them?

The BMJ, appeal 2021-22: MSF is working to ensure the people of Afghanistan have access to healthcare

What happened to our national emergency stockpiles?

Could rural China’s healthcare deal with covid-19?

Headlines play down the gravity of covid-19 in children

Covid-19: Why China is sticking to “zero tolerance” public health measures

mRNA vaccines: hope beneath the hype

Covid-19: What next for the Valneva vaccine?

India’s LGBTQ+ community continues to face healthcare barriers

Fake covid vaccines boost the black market for counterfeit medicines

Persecution and a pandemic: delivering maternal healthcare to the Rohingya

After covid, is the future of drug and alcohol services digital?

Afghanistan’s doctors urge world to put politics and prejudice aside to save its healthcare

WHO in its present form is not fit for purpose—an essay by Anthony Costello

Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial

The doctors getting arrested for climate change: a professional duty?

Covid-19: global vaccine production is a mess and shortages are down to more than just hoarding

India’s army of unrecognised, unpaid female health workers

Covid-19’s rebel scientists: has iSAGE been a success?

Creating more sustainable practice: the NHS clinical teams innovating for a greener future

Covid-19: Why Africa’s pandemic is different

Black and Asian doctors still face discrimination when applying for jobs in the NHS

Who should pay for social care and how?

Myanmar doctors are under fire from the military and covid-19

How to achieve a net zero carbon NHS during a pandemic

Covid-19, climate change, and the environment: a sustainable, inclusive, and resilient global recovery

Covid-19: Why the Balkans’ vaccine rollout lags behind most of Europe

The BMJ Awards 2021: Outstanding contribution to health

The BMJ Awards 2021: Research paper of the year

The BMJ Awards 2021: Special recognition award for science communication

Our drug laws are racist, and doctors must speak out—an essay by Simon Woolley

Heading, concussion, and dementia: how medicine is changing football forever

Children, covid-19, and India’s looming third wave

The BMJ Awards 2021: Diagnostics team of the year

BMJ Awards 2021: Cancer care team of the year

The BMJ Awards 2021: Digital innovation team of the year

BMJ Awards 2021: Quality improvement team of the year

What’s Health Data Research UK doing to help tackle covid-19?

The search for antivirals for covid-19

Covid-19: How Native Americans led the way in the US vaccination effort

BMJ Awards 2021: Diversity and inclusion team of the year

BMJ Awards 2021: Environmental sustainability and climate action team of the year

BMJ Awards 2021: Respiratory team of the year

BMJ Awards 2021: Primary care team of the year

Should regulatory authorities approve drugs based on surrogate endpoints?

The “shadow pandemic” of domestic violence

Vaccinating people who have had covid-19: why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?

Assisted dying around the world

BMJ Awards 2021: Mental health team of the year

The BMJ Awards 2021: Workforce and wellbeing team of the year

BMJ Awards 2021: Women’s health team of the year

BMJ Awards 2021: Stroke and cardiovascular team of the year

There is nothing holy about agony: religious people and leaders support assisted dying too

Euthanasia and assisted dying: the illusion of autonomy—an essay by Ole Hartling

Doctors’ organisations, neutrality, and the assisted dying debate

Covid-19: Malaysia hit by record cases despite prolonged lockdown

Why Taiwan approved its own vaccine before phase III trials

Covid-19: Why has India had a spike in stillbirths?