Intended for healthcare professionals
A National Care Service: Burnham is right to prioritise people over profit
RFK Jr: AI can give a second opinion better “than any doctor in the country”
AI “has the capacity to dominate us to free us from medical tyranny” US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has claimed
RFK Jr: AI can give a second opinion better “than any doctor in the country”
AI “has the capacity to dominate us to free us from medical tyranny” US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has claimed
Comparison of robotic versus conventional hip replacements
Two new big data studies suggest that robotic assisted hip and knee replacements offer no clear benefit over conventional surgery for implant survival, revision risk, or surgical complications
Comparison of robotic versus conventional hip replacements
Two new big data studies suggest that robotic assisted hip and knee replacements offer no clear benefit over conventional surgery for implant survival, revision risk, or surgical complications
Digital menstrual tracking risks creating more harm than benefit
Digital menstrual tracking and cycle syncing are increasingly marketed to the general public. Katharine Lee and colleagues argue that they pose risks to health as well as privacy
Digital menstrual tracking risks creating more harm than benefit
Digital menstrual tracking and cycle syncing are increasingly marketed to the general public. Katharine Lee and colleagues argue that they pose risks to health as well as privacy
Threats posed by Agentic AI require proactive mitigation
Pentobarbital: failed execution of Christa Pike sparks renewed criticism of use
Cancer: One in eight cases worldwide caused by infections like Epstein-Barr, study finds
NICE, Enhertu, and the US-UK drug deal: What other drugs could be in the pipeline and at what cost?
Foreign trained doctors, misconduct, and misleading headlines
Weight loss drugs: Does microdosing GLP-1s work?
Recommendations for evaluating a single surrogate endpoint (REASSurE): consensus based, surrogate evaluation framework with explanation and elaboration
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Resident doctors’ pay: Settlement is “not an endpoint,” departing BMA committee chair says
Domestic violence: £50m funding to help GPs tackle “public health epidemic”
Retatrutide trial: Triple action jab can cause weight loss of up to 25%, results suggest
Could “cot cams” prevent another Lucy Letby, and what are doctors’ concerns?
New Parkinson’s drug approved in US—but no clarity on when it might reach UK
Healthy Babies programme, modelled on Sure Start, to be expanded across England
Burnham: New NHS style national care service will be funded by pension reform
GLP-1s in the media: Dutch news groups fined over positive coverage
“Forever chemicals”—why do Lancashire village residents have high levels in their blood, and what happens next?
Trump’s latest pick for FDA head backs president over vaccines and vapes
ADHD and autism: Two year minimum waits imposed in fresh NHS rationing drive
Research
Early national comparison of robotic versus conventional knee replacements for arthritis using National Joint Registry data
Development and evaluation of a quality assessment tool for equality, diversity, and inclusion (QUALITY-EDI) within healthcare research
INSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials
Contemporary menopausal hormone therapy and thrombotic disease
QTc changes and early major adverse cardiovascular events associated with antidepressant treatment
Renal outcomes in people with type 2 diabetes with and without albuminuria treated with SGLT-2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists
How patients make sense of their decision for assisted suicide
Simultaneous derivation, validation, and comparison of predictor hazard ratios for cardiovascular risk prediction equations in patients with diabetes from high versus non-high income countries
Comment
Neighbourhood health in England can learn from successful international models
Vision, pragmatism, and five giants: new deals on social care and physician assistants
Researchers with lived experience navigate unique ethical and emotional challenges
Plans to end rough sleeping must focus on health exclusion and specialist services
Connecting healthcare and financial wellbeing services can help families, but it cannot compensate for inadequate income support
Tackling the continued decline in UK child health
Whitty’s challenge: can the profession fix risk holding?
Why do professional exams keep going wrong?
Extraordinary claims for new stroke treatment . . . and other research
We still do not know the answers to fundamental questions about menopause
Education
The person my clinicians never got to meet
Diagnosis and management of lower limb cellulitis
Beard rash
Advances in the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections
Vehicle speed limits . . . and other stories
Help me remove the stigma from my condition
Assessment and management of hypomagnesaemia in primary care
Prevention of altitude illness in adults: preparing people for travel to high altitude
Schizophrenia: advances in pathophysiology, management, and precision medicine
Diagnosis and management of acute hyperkalaemia
Assessing, diagnosing, and managing hip osteoarthritis in primary care
A girl with a fingertip blister
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