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Weight loss drugs are effective, but can healthcare systems afford them?
January 8, 2026
Cancer treatment delays need systematic attention
January 8, 2026
Liraglutide for Alzheimer’s disease . . . and other research
January 8, 2026
From crisis to action: a new shared vision for the future food system
January 7, 2026
Climate migration is inevitable; we are unprepared
January 7, 2026
The ocean is our greatest ally in mitigating climate change, but overusing it as climate “solution” could be counterproductive
January 7, 2026
Prosperity as health: Why we need an economy of care for a liveable future
January 7, 2026
What can’t wait: climate triage and The Ministry for the Future
January 7, 2026
Managing the impact of AI on both human health and planetary health requires new forms of governance
January 7, 2026
The narrowing legal operating space for climate action
January 7, 2026
Sustainable healthcare: how Asia Pacific is leading the way
January 7, 2026
Trump and RFK Jr are dismantling public health—aided and abetted by powerful doctors
January 6, 2026
Effective obesity care? Doctors could ask more about people’s lives and less about their weight
January 5, 2026
The rights and health of UK hunger strikers must be protected to prevent avoidable tragedy
December 31, 2025
AI could strengthen health equity, if we make the right choices now
December 31, 2025
Climate change threatens global health, but COP30 sparked hope
December 30, 2025
Gaslighting the next generation of doctors is a futile exercise
December 22, 2025
When I use a word . . . Lists of biases and a catalogue
December 19, 2025
The fight for doctors’ pay starts in medical school
December 19, 2025
The BMJ appeal 2025-26: “If you had one wish . . .”—bearing witness to childhoods in conflict
December 19, 2025
The question the government’s review into mental health should really be asking: why are more people getting sick?
December 19, 2025
End-of-life care needs cultural humility and social justice
December 18, 2025
Using military sites for asylum accommodation will retraumatise torture survivors
December 18, 2025
Hospital survival is threatened in the era of big finance
December 18, 2025
Christmas 2025: What is the role of the doctor today?
December 17, 2025
The making of a statistician: Doug Altman
December 17, 2025
Christmas 2025: Working with organised crime to improve health—a modest proposal
December 16, 2025
Christmas 2025: Video hospital consultations have opened up my—and my patients’— world
December 16, 2025
Vaccinate, isolate, ventilate: will we finally learn the lessons from covid this flu season?
December 16, 2025
Christmas 2025: A call to reclaim the missing mothers of medicine
December 16, 2025
Christmas 2025: Seven alternatives to evidence based medical education—an exploration of how we actually teach
December 15, 2025
Christmas 2025: Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, and chaos theory
December 15, 2025
When I use a word . . . Defining bias in research
December 12, 2025
Christmas 2025: Migration of clinical lexicon to colloquial slang
December 12, 2025
An effective public health response to the next pandemic demands learning from past mistakes
December 12, 2025
Medical training review: a first step towards fixing resident doctor training
December 12, 2025
Spending a penny, pushing up daisies, and other clinical mysteries: an idiomatic journey through the NHS
December 12, 2025
Why not knowing can be a virtue
December 11, 2025
UNAIDS: to dissolve or evolve?
December 11, 2025
Sexual and reproductive health and rights is at the edge—restoring it will require courage
December 10, 2025
Unlock dental data to improve public health
December 9, 2025
Revitalising the firm for the 21st century
December 8, 2025
Infection in older adults: underresearched and often undermanaged
December 5, 2025
Most women need perineal repair after giving birth—but it is chronically understudied
December 5, 2025
Who are the winners and losers of the UK-US pharma deal—it depends which side you believe
December 4, 2025
Fixing low organ donation rates needs to look beyond donor organisations
December 4, 2025
Stenting for carotid stenosis . . . and other research
December 4, 2025
Scarlett McNally: A simple but radical approach is needed to challenge bad behaviour in the NHS
December 3, 2025
Attending to patients who do not attend—missed appointments deserve clinical attention
December 3, 2025
The BMJ appeal 2025-26: Palliative care is essential humanitarian work
December 2, 2025
Matt Morgan: Doctors should be taught by doctors
December 2, 2025
Helen Salisbury: What are neighbourhoods for?
December 2, 2025
Rammya Mathew: Fighting health inequalities, one clinical encounter at a time
December 2, 2025
Christmas 2025: A dictionary for medicine’s unnamed moments
December 1, 2025
When I use a word . . . Hospitalists—advantages and disadvantages
November 28, 2025
A lesson from Nye Bevan on the roots of fascism
November 28, 2025
NHS funding faces a Brexit squeeze
November 26, 2025
David Oliver: Let’s value and expand existing medical generalism, not rename it
November 26, 2025
Autistic people are still let down by public services—new government strategy must deliver change
November 25, 2025
Where women lead, equality follows
November 24, 2025
When I use a word . . . Introducing hospitalists
November 21, 2025
US gun violence is a preventable health crisis
November 21, 2025
Action is needed to implement World Health Assembly social participation resolution
November 20, 2025
A step forward for knee osteoarthritis pain . . . and other research
November 20, 2025
Political interference in medical regulation makes for bad policy
November 19, 2025
John Launer: We need humility to engage with AI
November 19, 2025
Helen Salisbury: Mandatory training on learning disability and autism
November 19, 2025
If the UK leaves key international agreements, it will be a blow for health, justice, and accountability
November 18, 2025
An ethicist’s view on the resident doctors’ strikes
November 17, 2025
When I use a word . . . Medical Janus words
November 14, 2025
Men need fair information about screening for prostate cancer
November 13, 2025
Maintain vaccine mandates to save children’s lives
November 13, 2025
Scarlett McNally: Understanding dying teaches us about living
November 12, 2025
Proposed changes to alcohol licensing should make us question whose interests we’re serving in the name of growth
November 12, 2025
When I use a word . . . Medical powers of three
November 7, 2025
Torture and health worker complicity in Israeli detention sites
November 7, 2025
Governments should show climate and health ambition in their nationally determined contributions
November 7, 2025
Indigenous women’s leadership in the Amazon: how lessons learned from covid-19 can strengthen our response to the climate crisis
November 6, 2025
COP30 is a chance for Brazil to lead on climate action and defend multilateralism on a global stage
November 6, 2025
Brazil and the climate emergency: why the medical curriculum must include climate education
November 6, 2025
The international community must not turn its back on Sudan
November 6, 2025
Health risks of migration in a heating world
November 6, 2025
Cancer rates in younger people . . . and other research
November 6, 2025
Health systems in the Amazon need to be reimagined for a more sustainable future
November 6, 2025
Tackling the complex links between climate change, conflict, and health
November 6, 2025
New sociopolitical governance models are needed to tackle health challenges in the Amazon
November 6, 2025
The Amazon is one of Earth’s major climate stabilisers—we must protect the rainforest and its biodiversity
November 6, 2025
Medical evidence drove legal action to clean up the air we breathe—climate justice may be next
November 5, 2025
Big emitters must be held responsible for deaths caused by climate change
November 5, 2025
We need to rethink the “scandal” narrative in the NHS
November 5, 2025
David Oliver: NHS training review offers useful diagnostics but no clear management plan
November 4, 2025
H-1B visa fees pose a dire threat to patient care in the US
November 4, 2025
Climate change is driving a surge of infectious diseases in Brazil
November 4, 2025
When I use a word . . . Clinical pharmacology—the quintessential generalist specialty
November 3, 2025
We must break the inequality-pandemic cycle
November 3, 2025
Waiting for America’s healthcare revolution
November 3, 2025
Trump’s rollback of US climate policy requires a subnational, international, and private sector response
November 3, 2025
Brazil’s agribusiness industry is contributing to the climate crisis, hunger, and food insecurity
October 31, 2025
The NHS strikes have reshaped how medical students see their future
October 30, 2025
Medicine’s reckoning with genocide and crimes against humanity
October 30, 2025
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