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Is obesity a disease?

Head to head

Should obesity be recognised as a disease?

Categorising obesity as a disease will encourage people to seek treatment say John P H Wilding and Vicki Mooney,but Richard Pile thinks medicalisation would be disempowering and reduce motivation

Degraded coral reef

Editorial

Time and tide

Patient and GP

Views & reviews

David Oliver: Don’t blame GPs for late cancer diagnoses

ebola centre

Editorial

Holding back Ebola

BMJ opinionCongo’s Ebola epidemic—a failed response and the need for a reset

doctor depressed

Views & reviews

Clare Gerada: Doctors’ mental health and stigma—the tide is turning

The BMJ blogs

Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word… Core outcome sets and harms in clinical trials

Sarah Markham: Tracking trends in mental health provision to improve outcomes

Implications of “no deal” Brexit for orphan and paediatric medicines

Elize Massard da Fonseca: Brazil’s HIV/AIDS policy is under siege

Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—18 July 2019

Paul Simpson: Why are the intros to academic articles so boring?

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Latest opinion and features

Editor's choice

First do no harm: the impossible oath

Analysis

Distinguishing opinion from evidence in guidelines

Editorial

Preventable harm: getting the measure right

ResearchPrevalence, severity, and nature of preventable patient harm across medical care settings

NewsCosts of preventable harm could pay for thousands of nurses, BMJ study finds

Feature

3D mammography is on the upswing in the US, as experts argue about its value

Views & reviews

Helen Salisbury: Do we need integration?

Observations

The drip, drip, drip of the profit motive

Views & reviews

“Sin taxes”—the language is wrong, but the evidence is clear

Editor's choice

Evidence is sweet

Editorial

Flu vaccination in pregnancy

ResearchHealth outcomes of young children born to mothers who received 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccination during pregnancy

Analysis

New drugs: where did we go wrong and what can we do better?

Views & reviews

David Oliver: Can apps relieve pressure on emergency departments?

Views & reviews

Rammya Mathew: Supporting women in leadership matters

Feature

Despite high rates of vaccination, pertussis cases are on the rise. Is a new vaccination strategy needed?

Views & reviews

Helen Salisbury: What my patients have taught me

Observations

The NHS and our next prime minister

Views & reviews

Knowing our patients: it’s all in the detail

Editorial

Erosion of women’s reproductive rights in the United States

BMJ opinionAlabama abortion ban—part of new efforts to restrict abortion in the United States

NewsAbortion: AMA sues over North Dakota law

Editor's choice

Should we legalise cannabis?

Analysis

WHO draft guidelines on dietary saturated and trans fatty acids: time for a new approach?

Editorial

Understanding the obesity epidemic

ResearchQuantifying the impact of genes on body mass index during the obesity epidemic

BMJ opinionMaria Brandkvist: Destigmatising obesity with genes

Views & reviews

David Oliver: The NHS doesn’t need more “restructuring”

Latest news

News

Separating conjoined twins: five minutes with . . . David Dunaway

News

US Pentagon is told to investigate claims that Lyme disease is escaped bioweapon from cold war

News

GMC will regulate physician associates, government announces

BMJ opinionMedical associate professionals—we need to challenge traditional hierarchy

BMJ opinionMAPs can become a key part of the NHS workforce, but they must not be treated as cheap, quickly trained doctors

News

Ebola: calls for second experimental vaccine in DRC after WHO declares emergency

EditorialHolding back Ebola

News

Technology could provide safety net for scan and x ray results lost in the system

News

UK’s salt reduction deal with industry is linked to extra heart disease and stroke cases, research finds

Latest obituaries

Obituary

Patricia Bath: ophthalmologist, inventor, and humanitarian

Obituary

John Lennard-Jones