Observations

“Hidden” cost of the pandemic: drug overdose deaths

Leaked government white paper ends England’s NHS internal market and returns power to health secretary

Immunized? There’s an app for that

The NHS is not at risk of being overwhelmed—it already is

The leading cause of death in the US

Will covid-19 change US healthcare for the better?

Covid-19: Don’t forget the impact on US family physicians

ABC of medical confidentiality

Emerging tensions will affect how the NHS uses its new money

Des Spence: Why #healthbeliefs should be top of all our communications

Religion and spirituality in medicine: friend or foe?

What the SNP, Plaid Cymru, the DUP, and Greens are promising the NHS

Surreal, unlikely, curious: the voters’ choice on health

What a Johnson or Corbyn government might mean for the NHS

Dealing fairly with racist patients

What are political parties offering voters?

Are e-cigarettes killing people in the US?

Yellowhammer outlines how things fall apart in a no deal Brexit

Grandmasters of medicine

What does Prime Minister Johnson mean for the NHS?

The drip, drip, drip of the profit motive

The NHS and our next prime minister

Popular e-cigarette Juul comes under attack

The NHS workforce plan is an off-the-scale fantasy

Ask your patient: what is most important to you, and why?

NHS workforce: latest data are shocking but no surprise

Fiona Godlee: Chief among editors

Alexander Kumar: From the Amazon to the Arctic

Sally Davies: Silk, noir, and diplomacy

Jenny Vaughan: Overturning injustice

Musical chairs in the NHS leadership waltz

Ben Goldacre: A great time to be alive

Mukesh Kapila: The international humanitarian

Tolu Oni: Working on Africa’s health

Graham Kramer: Making health literacy easy

Ranjana Srivastava: Writing to reach you

Becky Haines: Care planning and campervanning

Ethics of emergency bedside medicine

Pascale Allotey: Treat people, not disease

Scott Wilkes: Sunderland’s got talent

What the NHS long term plan leaves out

Laurie Tomlinson: Adventures in nephrology

John Carlisle: In the Goldilocks zone

Gabriel Weston: A surgeon-writer-presenter’s story

Under the cover of groceries: beating sugar taxes

David Paynton: Reinvent the primary care team

Kevin Stewart: More safety, less blame

Agnes Binagwaho: Humour, hope, and global health

Why didn’t the budget include tax rises to pay for the NHS funding boost?

Jen Gunter: Poking the snake oil

Kiran Jobanputra: Humanitarian in the field

Virginia Barbour: Queen of open access

Karen Kirkham: Community hub pioneer

Is doctor-patient confidentiality dying a slow death?

Mahua Chakrabarti: Blissful operator

What did the party conferences tell us about the NHS and social care?

Chris and Xand van Tulleken: Sibling revelry

Esther Choo: Equality is good medicine

Mike Lean: Many mountains to climb

Dubhfeasa Slattery: Professional professionalist

David Mitchell: US drug price warrior

Simukai Chigudu: The politics of epidemics

Louise Kenny: Obstetrician on a mission

Wendy J Graham: Health and hygiene from birth

Damon Francis: Making the road by walking

Mary Dixon-Woods: Patient safety workaholic

Start-up e-cigarette brand aims to “improve smokers’ lives”

Helen Bevan: Embracing new horizons

James Munro: Caring about opinions

Vladimir Hachinski: Stroke prevention polymath

Why would a leading global reinsurer be interested in nutrition?

Olwen Williams: Eradicating the stigma

Liam Brennan: Gasman and perioperative doc

Chris Ham: King of the think tank

Andrew Goddard: Brilliant dreamer

Sania Nishtar: Acting with intent

Richard Sullivan: Cancer control crusader

The end of US hospitals as we know them?

Alf Collins: Happy to serve

Reducing outpatient activity does not cut costs

Lucy Kalanithi: Work, life, grief, love

Patience for patients

Martin Griffiths: Healing the wounds of knife crime

Pál Weihe: Island health campaigner

Tim Briggs: GIRFT, that’s the main thing

Madhukar Pai: TB and global health expert

Kent Buse: A mass of contradictions

Saleyha Ahsan: Trust me, I’m an activist

Yet another US massacre with a semi-automatic rifle

Jason Leitch: Three chords and the tooth

Zulfiqar Bhutta: A better world for children

Sam Guglani: Life, mortality, and poetry

Michael Lavelle-Jones: Training driver

The president’s cognitive health: winning with the MoCA

Knocking out written reflections

Tim Spector: Go with your gut

Michael Farquhar: Sleep, the best medicine

What would a “no deal” Brexit mean—and what does it tell us about those who want it?

Samiran Nundy: Tackling India’s corruption

Simon Denegri: Piloting patient involvement