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Information gaps in England’s independent healthcare sector

March 19, 2024

ONS refines method to estimate excess deaths

March 18, 2024

Sobering assessment of Scotland’s NHS

March 15, 2024

Cancer trends in the UK

March 13, 2024

Prison healthcare in England and Wales is in perpetual crisis

March 11, 2024

Avoiding harm through hearing our patients

March 6, 2024

Novel capsule endoscopy for detecting varices

March 5, 2024

Mandatory data and code sharing for research published by The BMJ

March 5, 2024

Illness trajectories in the age of big data

March 1, 2024

Reasons to avoid ultra-processed foods

February 28, 2024

The NHS is failing deaf people

February 28, 2024

Changing policy landscape around elder abuse in England and Wales

February 28, 2024

Selling NHS patient data

February 22, 2024

UK’s evolving role in global health

February 20, 2024

Captured by design: the drug industry and UK healthcare

February 19, 2024

Sense of belonging is a critical component of workforce retention

February 16, 2024

Commercial co-opting of feminist health narratives

February 14, 2024

Exercise for the treatment of depression

February 14, 2024

Liver steatosis linked to type 2 diabetes outcomes

February 13, 2024

Rehabilitation for post-covid-19 condition

February 7, 2024

Measles rates are rising again

February 6, 2024

Homelessness is not a personal choice or inevitable

February 1, 2024

Use of generative artificial intelligence in medical research

January 31, 2024

The BMJ’s NHS commission: an emphatic recommitment to the founding principles

January 31, 2024

Public health perspective on new weight loss medications

January 30, 2024

Pandemic lessons for the 2024 US presidential election

January 29, 2024

Invasive breast cancer and breast cancer death after non-screen detected ductal carcinoma in situ

January 25, 2024

Acute rehabilitation after traumatic shoulder dislocation

January 17, 2024

Climate change is a clear and present danger to health, says UKHSA

January 16, 2024

Silent crisis of venous care in UK

January 12, 2024

Indigenous peoples’ health after Australia’s No vote

January 11, 2024

“Safer supply” alternatives to toxic unregulated drug markets

January 11, 2024

Climate and health challenges for Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics

January 2, 2024

Intersectionality in health equity research

December 29, 2023

Falling life expectancy among US men

December 28, 2023

Christmas 2023: Festive period episodes of Doctor Who and population mortality

December 19, 2023

Christmas 2023: This Barbie is a surgeon

December 19, 2023

Chronic pain associated with temporomandibular disorders

December 15, 2023

Christmas 2023: “Nudging” clinicians to communicate more effectively with patients in hospital

December 15, 2023

Christmas 2023: Nature prescribing

December 13, 2023

Oral cancers are rising in the UK

December 12, 2023

Enable, engage, and innovate for quality

December 11, 2023

New Zealand reverses landmark tobacco controls

December 8, 2023

Emergency hospital services are closing because of staff shortages

December 7, 2023

Managing symptomatic gallstone disease

December 6, 2023

Invest in youth led efforts for gender equality and pandemic preparedness

December 5, 2023

Building climate resilient and low carbon health systems

December 5, 2023

Phasing out fossil fuels would save millions of lives worldwide

November 29, 2023

A controversial new federated data platform for the NHS in England

November 29, 2023

Do high sensitivity cardiac troponin assays improve patient outcomes?

November 28, 2023

Does timely vaccination help prevent post-viral conditions?

November 22, 2023

Will the ROB-ME checklist prevent omission bias in meta-analyses?

November 20, 2023

The state of care in England’s maternity services

November 20, 2023

Is it possible to reduce population levels of illegal drugs use?

November 16, 2023

Alcohol harms: the UK government is missing in action

November 15, 2023

Better prescribing for safer, more effective healthcare

November 13, 2023

Long term effectiveness of live herpes zoster vaccine

November 8, 2023

Is NICE losing its standing as a trusted source of guidance?

November 8, 2023

Sustainable practice: what can I do?

November 6, 2023

Equity and technology in the pandemic treaty

November 3, 2023

Improving antibiotic prescribing for uncomplicated UTIs

November 2, 2023

Patient partnership at BMJ

October 31, 2023

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

October 25, 2023

Racial inequity in low value care

October 25, 2023

Action to maximise childhood vaccination is urgently needed

October 24, 2023

Determining identity in medical research

October 23, 2023

Septoplasty for nasal obstruction

October 18, 2023

“Stopping the start”—new tobacco control measures for England

October 13, 2023

Lavage treatments for calcific rotator cuff tendinopathy

October 11, 2023

Challenges of obesity and type 2 diabetes require more attention to food environment

October 9, 2023

Protecting populations from the health harms of air pollution

October 4, 2023

Climate emergency and political will—reaching beyond human usefulness

October 4, 2023

Mortality risks associated with flood events

October 4, 2023

Loss and damage responses to climate change

October 3, 2023

Martha’s rule and patients’ rights to a second opinion

October 2, 2023

Anticholinergic medicines linked to cardiovascular events in older adults

September 27, 2023

Peer review and scientific publication at a crossroads

September 22, 2023

Understanding inequalities in breast cancer screening uptake

September 21, 2023

The BMJ’s commitment to achieving net zero by 2040

September 21, 2023

UK foreign aid cuts and global health

September 19, 2023

Benefits and risks of cannabinoids

September 18, 2023

Non-erosive reflux disease and oesophageal carcinoma

September 13, 2023

Prevent TB to end TB

September 11, 2023

Riding the whirlwind: BMJ’s policy on artificial intelligence in scientific publishing

September 8, 2023

NSAIDs, hormonal contraception, and venous thromboembolism

September 6, 2023

Essential medicines lists are for high income countries too

September 5, 2023

Police in England and Wales step back from mental healthcare

September 4, 2023

Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act

September 1, 2023

Another setback for cancer research in the UK

August 31, 2023

Patient safety: listen to whistleblowers

August 29, 2023

US global AIDS programme is under threat

August 29, 2023

Physician associates in the NHS

August 25, 2023

New treatments for Alzheimer’s disease

August 22, 2023

Turning down the spice: tackling the problems of synthetic cannabinoids

August 21, 2023

Digital tools and apps to reduce alcohol use

August 16, 2023

Co-creating healthcare

August 16, 2023

Cholera: resurgence of fatal yet preventable disease

August 14, 2023

Medical doctor apprenticeships are coming to the UK

August 11, 2023

Antenatal corticosteroids and longer term outcomes

August 2, 2023

Reducing the risks of nuclear war

August 1, 2023
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