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Why Taiwan approved its own vaccine before phase III trials

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

Will Scotland become the first part of the UK to legalise assisted dying?

How routine NHS diabetes care can catch up after covid-19

How the pandemic Olympics affected Japan

How the world is (not) handling surplus doses and expiring vaccines

Covid-19: Which countries are doing well on test and trace—and how can we tell?

Polarisation, incivility, and scientific debate during covid-19—an essay by Agnes Arnold-Forster

How South Africa is dragging its vaccine rollout back from the brink

Why the Philippines’ long lockdowns couldn’t contain covid-19

The BMJ Awards 2021: Dermatology team of the year

The BMJ Awards 2021: Critical care team of the year

Covid-19: How Kerala kept itself above water in India’s devastating second wave

Covid-19: How many variants are there, and what do we know about them?

The BMJ Awards 2021: Anaesthesia and perioperative medicine team of the year

The BMJ Awards 2021: Clinical leadership team of the year

Commentary: My pandemic grief and the Japanese art of kintsugi

Covid grief has cracked us open: how clinicians respond could reshape attitudes to bereavement—an essay by Lucy Selman

Covid-19: Uganda’s low inpatient numbers mask high community infection as desperate patients turn to herbs

Covid-19: How effective are vaccines against the delta variant?

Why Cuba developed its own covid vaccine—and what happened next

Roopa Dhatt: How a simple statistic helped put women on the global health map

Undermined and undervalued: how the pandemic exacerbated moral injury and burnout in the NHS

Has the billion dollar crusade to eradicate polio come to an end?

Restarting NHS cardiovascular care after covid-19

Covid-19 makes it harder for GPs to offer the quiet listening that made all the difference to me

Eating disorders during the covid-19 pandemic

Universal access to the digital NHS—but only if you have a smartphone

Donuts, drugs, booze, and guns: what governments are offering people to take covid-19 vaccines

The covid-19 lab leak hypothesis: did the media fall victim to a misinformation campaign?

How long does covid-19 immunity last?

Covid-19: “Life on hold” for NHS patients needing musculoskeletal care

Covid-19: The countries that have mandatory vaccination for health workers

How to fix India’s depleted rural workforce

Chronic fatigue syndrome and long covid: moving beyond the controversy

Lockdown in Nepal further strains supply of lifesaving maternal health drug

Covid-19 vaccine outreach: “local knowledge, contacts, and credibility really, really matter”

Humanising medical care after the pandemic

The seven year wait: Northern Ireland’s disintegrating secondary care services

How to attain gender equality in nursing—an essay

Childhood vaccination: Access problems in UK began way before covid-19

Industry-funded medical education is always promotion—an essay by Adriane Fugh-Berman

US college covid-19 vaccine mandates don’t consider immunity or pregnancy, and may run foul of the law

Covid 19: How harm reduction advocates and the tobacco industry capitalised on the pandemic to promote nicotine

Covid-19: How independent were the US and British vaccine advisory committees?

On the road to Recovery—the world’s biggest covid-19 treatment trial

Covid-19: Who fact checks health and science on Facebook?

Briefing: Why do we need a mandatory register of doctors’ interests?

Covid-19: How the Brazil variant took hold of South America

How Wellcome’s opaque fossil fuel investments harm its global health mission

Covid-19: How India’s doctors found their voice in the country’s devastating second wave

Covid-19 vaccines: In the rush for regulatory approval, do we need more data?

What doctors need to know about the Greensill scandal

Who is hacking the NHS during a pandemic?

How covid-19 revealed the scandal of medical oxygen supplies worldwide

Experimental treatments risk further medicalisation of menopause

Fear and stigma remain in survivors of Africa’s Ebola epidemic

Where are we with drug treatments for covid-19?

Covid-19: Africa scrambles to increase genomic testing capacity as variants spread

Covid-19: Sputnik vaccine rockets, thanks to Lancet boost

How Joe Biden has changed US healthcare in just 100 days

Why I wear a mask indoors and out

The robot will see you now: how machines could reshape post-pandemic medicine

Covid-19: Counting the cost of denial in Tanzania

Ticking the ICE box: the future of doctor-patient communication in a post-covid world

Covid-19: What do we know about airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2?

What the new Health Security Agency means for public health

What do we know about India’s Covaxin vaccine?

Doing the work to end health inequalities caused by systemic racism

Covid-19: How AstraZeneca lost the vaccine PR war

UK deaths in 2020: how do they compare with previous years?

How the JCVI sets who gets a covid-19 vaccine and when

Covid-19: a disaster five years in the making

What do we know about China’s covid-19 vaccines?

Junior doctors’ morale: the pandemic groundhog day

Covid-19: How clinical academic trainees came back to the wards en masse

Covid-19: Ivermectin’s politicisation is a warning sign for doctors

Slow death of the bleep: why hospital pagers won’t die

Using patient experience to run a hospital

Another epidemic: abuse and violence towards doctors from patients and the public

How health data have been used during covid-19, and whether the changes are here to stay

Biden’s choice and FDA’s loosening standards of evidence

What do we know about lateral flow tests and mass testing in schools?

Covid-19: What do we know about Sputnik V and other Russian vaccines?

Tom Frieden: On the “mind boggling” interference of the Trump administration during covid-19

How covid-19 has exacerbated LGBTQ+ health inequalities

How the lessons of previous epidemics helped successful countries fight covid-19

The EMA covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mRNA instability

Covid-19: Why Peru suffers from one of the highest excess death rates in the world

Covid-19 has made the obesity epidemic worse, but failed to ignite enough action

Covid-19, trust, and Wellcome: how charity’s pharma investments overlap with its research efforts

NHS sickness absence during the covid-19 pandemic

Covid-19: Maurizio Cecconi—one year since Italy’s darkest moment

Tracking down John Bell: how the case of the Oxford professor exposes a transparency crisis in government

Behind the scenes of the Pfizer BioNTech covid-19 vaccine trial

Jeremy Farrar: Make vaccine available to other countries as soon as our most vulnerable people have received it

Wearable technology: covid-19 and the rise of remote clinical monitoring

Covid-19: How the UK vaccine rollout delivered success, so far

Covid-19: How the lessons of HIV can help end the pandemic

Covid-19: Is Manaus the final nail in the coffin for natural herd immunity?