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Prostate cancer “awareness paradox” for patients
August 18, 2026
Tribunals for sexual misconduct: MPTS recognises duty of care to witnesses
August 12, 2026
Regulatory decisions: benefit-harm balance of new drugs takes time to emerge
August 11, 2026
Focus on exercise rather than supplementation to prevent falls and fractures
August 10, 2026
Population impact matters when evaluating calcium and vitamin D supplementation
August 7, 2026
When communities resist: rethinking Ebola response through risk communication and community engagement
August 6, 2026
Healthcare expenditure on vitamin D supplementation
August 5, 2026
Corridor care is becoming normalised for newly qualified doctors
August 4, 2026
NHS exists for patients, not providers
August 3, 2026
Digitisation of primary care excludes those in greatest need
July 31, 2026
Lyme disease should be notifiable
July 30, 2026
Undiagnosed coeliac disease presenting with oral ulcers: a missed opportunity
July 27, 2026
Mandatory, standardised food labelling should be just one element of a multifaceted campaign against obesity
July 23, 2026
Delirium in overcrowded emergency departments: helping patients where we find them
July 22, 2026
Emergency departments are not failing: they are absorbing whole system failure
July 21, 2026
Self-tests need accountable follow-up pathways
July 20, 2026
The hidden curriculum of academic medicine
July 17, 2026
Proactive pharmacovigilance needs predefined action rules
July 16, 2026
Domestic wood burning transfers health risk and economic cost from industry to citizens
July 15, 2026
Maternity services should be capable of supporting both safe care and informed maternal choice
July 13, 2026
Rise in reporting of sexual misconduct in healthcare is a step in the right direction
July 10, 2026
Risks of the AI bandwagon
July 8, 2026
Trust without safeguards: why UK Biobank is the outlier among our data services
July 7, 2026
Open letter to the Health and Safety Executive on work related suicides
July 6, 2026
UK alcohol deaths: we know that minimum unit pricing works
July 6, 2026
The doctor will post you now
July 2, 2026
PMOS: a better name should end the habit of dismissing patients
July 1, 2026
PCOS name change to PMOS: clinical coding systems will take a while to catch up
June 30, 2026
NHS dentistry: a system failing by design
June 29, 2026
Patient reported outcomes capture subtle changes in disease
June 26, 2026
Trump mental health: assigning a diagnosis is inappropriate and unethical
June 25, 2026
Attacks on medical facilities during war demand global response
June 24, 2026
Trump’s health: we need to consider broader systemic failures
June 23, 2026
Long term erosion of NHS dentistry
June 22, 2026
Deeper understanding of healthcare system “overwhelm” during covid-19 is essential for coherent pandemic strategy
June 19, 2026
Telephone calls are rarely the answer
June 18, 2026
Improving face-to-face communication can increase productivity
June 17, 2026
Martial arts techniques can mitigate injury during falls
June 16, 2026
Public health should partner with faith communities
June 15, 2026
Rise in autism and ADHD: patient experience is not fixed
June 12, 2026
Compassion emerges from the conditions we work in
June 11, 2026
A silent strike by young doctors in Japan
June 10, 2026
Are fit notes fit for the 21st century?
June 9, 2026
Childcare challenges: a tug of war between work and family
June 8, 2026
Childcare problems are compounded for dual doctor couples
June 5, 2026
From striving for equity in medical education to a legal obligation to discriminate
June 4, 2026
Countries must develop better protection against wood burning emissions
June 3, 2026
Racism in healthcare: future doctors are keen to engage with sociology
June 2, 2026
Symbiosis of international medical graduates in the NHS
June 1, 2026
Medical training prioritisation bill: what about British citizens who studied abroad?
June 1, 2026
Medical training prioritisation bill excludes a diverse and stable workforce
May 28, 2026
Why language proficiency matters in global health equity
May 27, 2026
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh stands against the wood burning lobby
May 26, 2026
Wood burning also contributes to climate change
May 22, 2026
When risk becomes disease
May 21, 2026
Scottish government fails to understand the medical employment crisis
May 20, 2026
Author’s reply to Weller
May 19, 2026
The human cost of overdiagnosis is emotional distress and fear
May 18, 2026
How are ambient scribe companies using patient data?
May 15, 2026
Integrating body based approaches into mental healthcare
May 14, 2026
AI, bibliometric ethics, and the need for practical wisdom
May 13, 2026
From identifying evidence to taking responsibility for it
May 12, 2026
NHS vaccination strategy is set up to fail without a coherent public health agenda
May 11, 2026
We need narrative approaches to children’s mental health in conflict
May 8, 2026
Nuclear diplomacy continues to be structurally flawed because it excludes doctors
May 7, 2026
Evidence, transparency, and scope: concerns about Doctronic
May 6, 2026
Expansion of medical school places: focus on retaining doctors instead
May 5, 2026
NHS maternity care: the system generates demand it cannot meet
May 1, 2026
Fear is a powerful determinant of health
April 30, 2026
Why some patients may feel safer with AI than with clinicians
April 29, 2026
Expansion of medical school places: funding a university seat is easy but finding high quality clinical placements is hard
April 28, 2026
Prevention and inequalities will determine success of England’s cancer plan
April 24, 2026
Vascular pathways in post-acute infectious disease
April 23, 2026
Patient decision making should be supported, not shared
April 22, 2026
Widening the lens: genetic testing barriers risk compounding prostate cancer inequalities
April 21, 2026
Is banning social media the right response to the adolescent mental health crisis?
April 20, 2026
Non-violent civil disobedience in the climate emergency
April 17, 2026
England left behind on effective alcohol policy
April 16, 2026
Evaluating the environmental impact of AI in healthcare is essential for planetary health
April 15, 2026
Weight “regain” in obesity shifts responsibility from biology to personal inadequacy
April 13, 2026
NHS 10 year plan: fit for future rural healthcare?
April 10, 2026
General practice is key to overcoming overinvestigation in emergency medicine
April 9, 2026
BMJ commission on the future of doctoring should start from the margins
April 8, 2026
Reframing responsibility in pulse oximetry research
April 7, 2026
Clinicians need more accurate pulse oximeters and better training
April 2, 2026
Pharmacotherapy as a catalyst for behaviour change
April 1, 2026
Add exercise to weight loss drugs for optimal metabolic health
March 31, 2026
Key questions remain about GLP-1 drug discontinuation
March 30, 2026
Concern from Argentina: when anti-science becomes public policy
March 26, 2026
Communicating science in a misinformed era: innovative strategies for global physicians
March 25, 2026
Rising need for mental healthcare could be linked to social disadvantage
March 24, 2026
Trust and the chopsticks principle: care works best in partnership
March 23, 2026
Fiction helps us listen and move beyond polarisation
March 19, 2026
Why do powerful doctors comply with Trump’s regime? Incentives, institutions, and the path to integrity
March 18, 2026
Polarisation in medicine: adversarial framing can make it harder to communicate nuance
March 17, 2026
Doctors in fascist regimes
March 16, 2026
New words for the AI era: botfo and noledge
March 10, 2026
Rest is work and why switching off should not feel like guilt
March 4, 2026
AI chatbots should be bridges, not destinations
March 3, 2026
Doug Altman at The BMJ
March 2, 2026
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