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Why are black women still more likely to die in childbirth?

February 20, 2025

Why advocates for Parkinson’s disease prevention are cheering a US ban on a dry cleaning solvent

February 17, 2025

Lucy Letby: What next for the case after an expert panel found no evidence of murder?

February 13, 2025

Can WHO’s new trials guidance challenge a lack of inclusivity in research?

February 12, 2025

Clampdown on NGOs strangles India’s public health services

February 11, 2025

Top Trumps: Who runs health in the new US government?

February 7, 2025

India’s organ transplant paradox: women donate the most and receive the least

February 7, 2025

The BMJ appeal 2024-25: Faces of conflict in Gaza

February 6, 2025

McDonald’s triumphs over councils’ rejections of new branches

February 5, 2025

Ozempic v Mounjaro: what is the difference between semaglutide and tirzepatide?

February 3, 2025

US National Institutes of Health has become a political target—how did we get here?

January 30, 2025

Ozempic babies: are weight loss drugs leading to unintended pregnancies?

January 29, 2025

Ghana’s physician assistants demand greater autonomy amid rising tensions

January 28, 2025

Can weight loss drugs like Ozempic treat obesity in children?

January 23, 2025

Medical apprenticeships: what next now that the scheme has been paused?

January 22, 2025

Trapped and overburdened—what can be done for doctors facing burnout?

January 21, 2025

High cost of colonoscopy deterring young Americans from testing—and raising cancer risk

January 16, 2025

Does menstrual cycle syncing really help productivity?

January 14, 2025

Blackout deaths: the grim toll of Ecuador’s energy crisis

January 13, 2025

Do smoking bans work?

January 9, 2025

The BMJ appeal 2024-25: Meet the vascular surgeon assisting clinicians in Gaza, where 98% of the population is in a state of humanitarian need

January 9, 2025

Health insurers grapple with UnitedHealthcare murder—and a public short on sympathy

January 6, 2025

Christmas 2024: Facing death differently: revolutionising our approach to death and grief

December 23, 2024

The BMJ Appeal 2024-25: Starvation and malnutrition escalating the threat of Sudan’s civil war

December 23, 2024

Christmas 2024: Rock ‘n’ roll doctor Hank Wangford’s love song to the NHS

December 23, 2024

Christmas 2024: Good nights—optimising children’s health through bedtime stories

December 20, 2024

Christmas 2024: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus—peace is the best medicine

December 18, 2024

Christmas 2024: From friend at the bedside to health adviser to all—how hospital radio’s ambitions are expanding

December 18, 2024

Christmas 2024: Weathering storms together—the stories behind Scandinavian support for high taxes

December 18, 2024

Christmas 2024: From plague to planetary crisis—climate fiction before cli-fi

December 18, 2024

Christmas 2024: How to transport a polar bear, and other idiosyncrasies for Arctic emergency medical services

December 18, 2024

Christmas 2024: Gang of four—when BMJ editors met

December 17, 2024

Christmas 2024: Trump, the rise of the Global South, and a new world order for health

December 17, 2024

Christmas 2024: Living happily ever after? The hidden health risks of Disney princesses

December 17, 2024

Christmas 2024: The dangers of industrialisation—why we need to rebuild a convivial society

December 17, 2024

Christmas 2024: Broken chords—the music of grief

December 16, 2024

Doubts over landmark heart drug trial: ticagrelor PLATO study

December 11, 2024

How did the RCP get into a mess over physician associates?

December 11, 2024

Drug use: how can policies reduce the harms of both consumption and criminalisation?

December 9, 2024

Gaming addiction: how the NHS is tackling the problem

December 6, 2024

Food industry has infiltrated UK children’s education: stealth marketing exposed

December 4, 2024

“Unnecessary hysterectomies”: are India’s clinics exploiting an insurance loophole for profit?

December 4, 2024

How much does the fossil fuel industry fund medical research?

November 28, 2024

The BMJ Appeal 2024-25: David Miliband on the International Rescue Committee in a “flammable world”

November 28, 2024

What is “man flu”?

November 27, 2024

Chris Hoy and cancer screening: is celebrity campaigning a bad way to make policy?

November 22, 2024

The boom in fruit flavour cigarettes is driving youth smoking in Latin America

November 21, 2024

How patients are using AI

November 19, 2024

Solidarity kitchens: how pandemic food assistance developed to offer much more

November 18, 2024

What are countries doing to tackle worsening drug shortages?

November 15, 2024

Should GPs be allowed to offer private services to their patients?

November 14, 2024

Abortion dominant, but health sidelined: the road to Trump’s win

November 11, 2024

The rapid rise of the UK’s cancer vaccine trials

November 7, 2024

How climate change made 2024 the deadliest year of dengue

November 6, 2024

Young Pakistanis are moving away from cousin marriage owing to the risk of genetic disorders

November 5, 2024

Assisted dying laws around the world

October 30, 2024

Conscientious objection: will doctors be able to opt out of assisted dying?

October 30, 2024

Dispute arises over World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s involvement in WHO’s trans health guideline

October 30, 2024

What is it like for doctors working under assisted dying laws?

October 30, 2024

Mpox risk to Europe “low” says EU official, but virus and bird flu need monitoring

October 24, 2024

Pharma pours millions into the NHS for non-research work—but we don’t know what the money is being spent on

October 23, 2024

A UK university is helping to train Chinese GPs. This is why

October 21, 2024

Are covid-19 tests still working?

October 17, 2024

What happened after Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital was hit in a missile attack

October 15, 2024

What’s it like to be a patient as a doctor?

October 11, 2024

Finland’s new physician role connects human and climate health

October 8, 2024

Lebanon: Israeli attack endangers a healthcare system reliant on Hezbollah

October 4, 2024

How covid, flu, and other seasonal vaccine programmes are changing

October 4, 2024

Lucy Letby case: what happens now?

October 3, 2024

From one neurologist to one unit: turning the tide against stroke in Malawi

September 30, 2024

The physician associates becoming doctors

September 26, 2024

Preventing future deaths: what have we learnt from reports into preventable fatalities?

September 25, 2024

Donanemab: Conflicts of interest found in FDA committee that approved new Alzheimer’s drug

September 25, 2024

Are India’s regulatory gaps leaving patients with substandard mental health counsellors?

September 20, 2024

Doctor suicide: “All I could see were tasks mounting and people constantly knocking on my door”

September 17, 2024

Wellcome’s new head on the future of clinical research funding

September 16, 2024

UK government’s nutrition advisers are paid by world’s largest food companies, BMJ analysis reveals

September 11, 2024

Lightning strikes the health of low income workers in India

September 10, 2024

Will we ever know where covid-19 came from?

September 9, 2024

Jonathan Finnoff on being a doctor at the Olympic and Paralympic Games

September 5, 2024

Bankrupt local authorities heap pressure on primary care, say GPs

September 5, 2024

Dementia: Africa’s unique opportunity for prevention amid rising cases

September 2, 2024

The health of a leader—and when it has been questioned

August 29, 2024

Eating disorders remain neglected despite sharp rise in Europe

August 28, 2024

Donna Ockenden: Money to improve maternity care? It’s being spent on compensation

August 27, 2024

Medical training at breaking point: will an increase in learners push the system over the edge?

August 21, 2024

How do drugs such as Ozempic work for weight loss . . . and everything else?

August 19, 2024

Rising heatwaves are intensifying an anaemia crisis among India’s women

August 19, 2024

How India’s relationship with the sugar industry turned sour

August 15, 2024

GP leader: “If general practice is the bedrock of the NHS, then the NHS is collapsing”

August 14, 2024

Portugal’s primary care crisis as GPs depart

August 12, 2024

“Things cannot remain as they are”—top obstetrician on workforce morale

August 7, 2024

Galleri promises to detect multiple cancers—but new evidence casts doubt

August 7, 2024

India’s billion dollar pharma industry has a waste problem

August 5, 2024

Manipur’s mental health crisis, a year after violence

August 2, 2024

Polish abortion reform stalls after decriminalisation vote fails

July 31, 2024

The state of global mpox in 2024: new variants, rising outbreaks in Africa, and vaccine trials just starting

July 30, 2024

Cord blood banking: Experts raise concern over claims made for stem cell applications

July 24, 2024

Latin America is catching up on HPV vaccination and screening

July 23, 2024

South Africa’s new national health insurance scheme is controversial

July 22, 2024
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