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Prostate cancer screening: Committee rejects calls for mass testing programme despite pressure
Milburn report: NHS is not doing enough to help NEETs, says former health secretary
The NHS is failing to help young people get into work despite rising rates of disability and poor mental health being major contributors to unemployment, a report by Alan Milburn warns
Milburn report: NHS is not doing enough to help NEETs, says former health secretary
The NHS is failing to help young people get into work despite rising rates of disability and poor mental health being major contributors to unemployment, a report by Alan Milburn warns
Practice Pointer: Assessing oral ulcers and patches in primary care
This article outlines how to perform an assessment of the oral mucosa and discusses investigation and initial management of common soft tissue lesions, including oral ulcers and patches
Practice Pointer: Assessing oral ulcers and patches in primary care
This article outlines how to perform an assessment of the oral mucosa and discusses investigation and initial management of common soft tissue lesions, including oral ulcers and patches
Designer peptides for wellness: are they safe?
Wellness “peptides”—promoted by influencers and sourced from the internet—claim to speed up healing, give you better skin, and even make you live longer. But what are these products—and why are doctors worried about them?
Designer peptides for wellness: are they safe?
Wellness “peptides”—promoted by influencers and sourced from the internet—claim to speed up healing, give you better skin, and even make you live longer. But what are these products—and why are doctors worried about them?
NHS modernisation bill: The lesser known aspects that could upturn health policy
ADHD: The government must finally commit to improving support
Power over the people: unwise NHS reform delivers unprecedented political control
My colleague keeps stealing my ideas-what should I do?
Joseph Ana: surgeon and GP who overhauled healthcare in Nigeria
David Oliver: The use of advanced practitioners on doctors’ rotas raises wider questions
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Ebola: What you need to know and what to do about suspected cases
Strikes: Resident doctors announce four day walkout in June
Medical news in brief: Antiviral drug for hantavirus, patient data concerns, rules on GP harassment, and other stories
Satisfaction with the NHS is rising—so why are people still so unhappy with it?
Regulator failed to properly vet nurses and midwives with criminal records for 12 years
Planted to save lives of women
Doctor who had sexual relationship with teenage patient avoids erasure
Lyme disease cases in England rise 20% in a year
Social media use in children as much a concern as smoking, says Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
Neurosurgeon who had sex with patient avoids erasure after tribunal hears it would be “disaster” for patients
Research
Outcome switching in cohort studies of interventions
CRT-Estimands Framework: consensus based extension of the ICH E9(R1) addendum for cluster randomised trials
Concordance between target trial emulation and randomised controlled trials: systematic review and meta-analysis
Analysing complex interventions using component network meta-analysis
Prophylactic tranexamic acid for the prevention of postpartum haemorrhage in women with placenta praevia
Efficacy of dual antiplatelet therapy for three months versus 12 months after coronary artery bypass grafting
Aluminium adjuvants in vaccines and potential health effects
Benzodiazepine or Z-hypnotic use during pregnancy and risk of psychiatric disorders in children
Comment
Enhanced Games: Bold claims, weak evidence, and serious risks
The story of aluminium containing vaccines is bigger than any one study
Streeting’s time as health secretary: a missed opportunity
Scarlett McNally: Surgeons and anaesthetists are burnt out, but their teams can help
John Launer: Elegy for the Tavistock
UK National Screening Committee position statement on evidence required for multicancer detection tests
UK National Screening Committee position statement on surrogate outcomes in cancer screening trials
Trump and RFK Jr have a new approach to global health: holding vulnerable people to ransom
Fear as policy: the health harms of immigration enforcement
Education
Feeling cared for in a corridor
Advances in the diagnosis and management of aortic stenosis
An ulcerated lesion on the scalp
Weakness after antifungal use
Cognitive outcomes after preterm birth . . . and other stories
Ask me how PMOS is affecting my life
Identifying and managing pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain
Nausea and jaundice in a patient with burns
Beyond skin: living with a visible condition
Preventing cognitive decline . . . and other stories
The BMJ Editorial Scholar 2026/2027
Identifying and evaluating adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
Advances in the drug treatment of Alzheimer’s disease: pathophysiology and mechanisms of action
Ebola
Ebola: Three Red Cross workers die as more than 1000 cases and 200 deaths reported
Ebola outbreak: 139 dead as WHO warns of “scale and speed” of spread in central Africa
Disease outbreaks such as Ebola and hantavirus are more frequent and deadly as world “moves backwards,” report warns
Ebola: WHO declares emergency as strain with no vaccine kills 100 in DRC and Uganda
BMJ Medicine
Current and emerging therapies for pulmonary tuberculosis in adults
Apr 22
Primary care and community interventions for multimorbidity involving depression or anxiety
Apr 10
Vaccine cold chain and understanding what underpins vaccine security for vaccine preventable diseases
Apr 9
Metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease: mechanisms, diagnosis, and management in adults
Mar 31
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