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Should doctors be on social media?

October 28, 2026

Abortion bans: US doctors are training with plastic cups and fruit

October 27, 2026

Trump’s aid cuts risk killing women around the world

October 26, 2026

Water shortages: how can hospitals prepare and are water companies doing enough?

October 22, 2026

In South Asia the most vulnerable people are paying for a climate crisis created by high income countries

October 21, 2026

Wildfires are putting firefighters at risk of cancer—scientists are working out how to help

October 20, 2026

How the brain changes during menopause—and why we still don’t know what it means

October 16, 2026

AI bioweapons: how real is the threat?

October 14, 2026

Is the flu season starting early—and when should I get vaccinated?

October 9, 2026

Why “heart attack” has been redefined—and why that will save more women

October 8, 2026

Rare diseases: NHS labs fail to share data vital for diagnosis and care, BMJ finds

October 7, 2026

With Spanish doctors threatening indefinite strike, health secretary urges patience

October 7, 2026

Weight loss drugs: Does microdosing GLP-1s work?

October 1, 2026

Secret medical schools: How Afghanistan’s women are defying the training ban

September 30, 2026

Daraxonrasib: How soon could the new drug for pancreatic cancer be available in the UK?

September 23, 2026

Medicine needs critics: Why scepticism is both healthy and important

September 21, 2026

US officials knew covid vaccine safety system was flawed—but turned aside the FDA doctor who alerted them

September 16, 2026

Trump’s “dismantling” of NIH research continues apace

September 14, 2026

Eating disorders: Doctors and patients left in “nightmare situation” amid long waits, unsafe care, and preventable deaths

September 11, 2026

A third of UK government’s nutrition advisers are still paid by food industry, including Coca-Cola and Nestlé

September 10, 2026

Why bringing back the family doctor might not be so simple

September 9, 2026

Faith and the NHS: How a lack of cultural literacy is failing patients and staff

September 4, 2026

Giardia: everything you need to know about the parasite on the rise

September 2, 2026

Rohingya refugees remain trapped in a deadly limbo nine years after fleeing persecution

August 28, 2026

Dolly Parton’s major contributions to vaccines and public health

August 27, 2026

A “monstrous” conflict of interest: Kim Fox, ivabradine, and European Society of Cardiology clinical practice guidelines

August 26, 2026

Evidence based medicine is surprisingly new—and doesn’t have all the answers

August 21, 2026

Junk food suppliers have “shocking” major presence at UK’s biggest school food event

August 19, 2026

What do we know about covid-19 and smell loss?

August 11, 2026

“Cockroach” victory: India’s education minister resigns over medical exam scandal linked to 12 suicides

August 7, 2026

Ebola: how soon could a Bundibugyo vaccine be ready?

August 5, 2026

Does Mounjaro cause hair loss?

July 29, 2026

Russia’s healthcare crumbles amid Putin’s war with Ukraine

July 27, 2026

China has banned an unproven Alzheimer’s operation and detained its inventor, but international clinical trials of dcLVA are still going ahead—why?

July 24, 2026

“I can’t live off pot noodle:” the challenges of eating well—or at all—as an NHS hospital doctor

July 15, 2026

African countries “under pressure” signed Trump’s America First health deal—and few rejected it

July 10, 2026

Doctors are fighting to protect children from mouldy homes after death of Awaab Ishak

July 7, 2026

Detransitioners are “abandoned” as NHS fails to offer specialist care

July 2, 2026

Miscarriage: poor access to care leaves thousands of UK women desperately searching for answers

June 30, 2026

Why German doctors are being prepped for war

June 26, 2026

“Black hole” of medical student funding: NHS trusts have failed to account for over £400m meant for training future doctors

June 22, 2026

Bad influencers: How social media imported US-style drug advertising to the UK

June 19, 2026

Obesity versus China: how Ozempic is complicating the world’s largest weight loss campaign

June 15, 2026

Nicotine as a wellness product? The smoking alternatives being pushed by big tobacco

June 10, 2026

Six ways Gavi will continue to immunise half the world’s children amid vaccine backlash and a funding crisis

June 1, 2026

Peanut allergy in adults: how is treatment changing?

June 1, 2026

Designer peptides for wellness: are they safe?

May 28, 2026

Satisfaction with the NHS is rising—so why are people still so unhappy with it?

May 27, 2026

Who will be the next leader of the beleaguered WHO?

May 19, 2026

NHS Online: What we do and don’t know about the bold new plan to revolutionise care

May 14, 2026

No wood burner ban for new homes after industry argues it would “harm economy”—despite medical warnings on pollution

May 13, 2026

Wood burning stoves should be phased out in UK cities, warns leading air pollution expert

May 13, 2026

“Are you really the doctor?”—The rheumatologist using humour to examine uncomfortable questions of race and identity in the NHS

May 7, 2026

How US fetal tissue research was sacrificed on the altar of politics

May 6, 2026

How climate change is reshaping India’s snakebite crisis

May 5, 2026

The fall of the Environmental Protection Agency under Donald Trump

April 30, 2026

Hungary: Why healthcare reform was a cornerstone of victory over Orbán

April 28, 2026

Hospital at Home has expanded rapidly on the assumption it’s what patients want—but what do they really think?

April 24, 2026

Donald Trump’s mental health: are health professionals’ media speculations ethical or dangerous?

April 22, 2026

New exam finds one third of Brazilian final year medical students below proficiency

April 21, 2026

Reduce residents’ on-calls to overhaul doctor training, says the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s first female president

April 15, 2026

Why doesn’t the NHS know where its medicines are?

April 14, 2026

“Protect children through, rather than from, research”: US National Academies urges shift in paediatric studies

April 7, 2026

Shisha tobacco’s availability is rising. Why does UK smoking policy fail to tackle it?

April 1, 2026

The wellness inspired rise of continuous glucose monitors for people without diabetes

March 30, 2026

Why the expanded global gag rule is a deadly triple tripwire for recipients of US foreign aid

March 25, 2026

No and low alcohol drinks may encourage teens to start drinking, researchers warn

March 23, 2026

What you need to know about meningitis B now

March 19, 2026

How Australia survived a sudden shortage of IV fluids

March 17, 2026

How does covid-19 affect the skin?

March 16, 2026

Combating the destructive biomedicalisation of clinical language

March 10, 2026

The growing threat of domestic wood burning stoves

March 4, 2026

Microplastics: do they harm human health?

March 4, 2026

Michael Marmot: Labour has reneged on its child poverty promises

March 3, 2026

How food industry lobbying restrained Canada’s new nutrition labels

February 25, 2026

Weight loss drug waste: what happens to the Ozempic pens?

February 23, 2026

Unpaid overtime in the NHS is falling—what this means for the workforce

February 19, 2026

MyChart: doctors are left frustrated and patients panic as NHS trusts roll out hospital records app

February 18, 2026

Why clinical trials are leaving the US—and Asia and Australia are welcoming them

February 14, 2026

India has overtaken the US on clinical trials but struggles with regulation

February 14, 2026

How China became the new world leader in clinical trials

February 14, 2026

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”

February 9, 2026

Families are being rehoused hundreds of miles from home—GPs raise alarm over health harms and service strain

February 5, 2026

Royal Colleges of Physicians and General Practitioners join the X exodus—why medical leaders are refusing to tweet

February 4, 2026

“Technostress”—the NHS is overloading doctors with devices

February 3, 2026

New synthetic drugs more powerful than fentanyl pose a new epidemic threat

January 29, 2026

How politics destroyed Colombia’s model healthcare system

January 26, 2026

Sudan: Infectious diseases run rampant in “dire” camps as health staff struggle to help those fleeing violence

January 22, 2026

UK is better protected than US against vaccine politicisation—but is not immune, top adviser warns

January 21, 2026

Trump’s second term and the weaponisation of health policy: a 2025 timeline

January 20, 2026

The health impacts of being held hostage, even after being freed

January 14, 2026

mRNA vaccines are under threat—could cancer vaccines be the answer?

January 13, 2026

What does “patient choice” really mean?

January 12, 2026

The BMJ appeal 2025-26: How innovation is supporting those who need it most

January 9, 2026

Kim Stanley Robinson interview: The Ministry for the Future author on climate fiction, political imagination, and health

January 7, 2026

Carbon capture: the “distracting, dangerous scam” governments are relying on to reach net zero

January 7, 2026

Multiple password frustration: can the NHS solve its logging-in problem?

January 6, 2026

“It became a joke”—how Poland’s government lost the battle over health literacy to the church and right wing groups

January 5, 2026

Mosaic mural helps GPs and patients put pieces back together after covid

December 18, 2025

In memoriam: a tribute to some of the doctors who died in 2025

December 18, 2025
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