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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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