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UK Biobank case reveals the need for mandatory accreditation of trusted research environments

June 19, 2026

Valdo Calocane inquiry offers valuable lessons for overhauling mental health services

June 17, 2026

When I use a word . . . The Devil’s Medical Dictionary

June 17, 2026

Data sharing must evolve towards data sovereignty

June 15, 2026

American Diabetes Association controversy: Activism is necessary to protect scientific freedom

June 12, 2026

Fitness to practice tribunals for sexual misconduct are unfit for purpose

June 12, 2026

Prisons: A missing front in England’s HIV action plan

June 11, 2026

Avoiding central line complications . . . and other research

June 11, 2026

Trump administration has its sights set on destroying international research collaborations

June 10, 2026

DRC has strengthened its response to Ebola – but conflict and funding cuts are testing its capacity

June 10, 2026

John Launer: The health benefits of European collaboration

June 10, 2026

Matt Morgan: Hope as a direction of travel

June 10, 2026

A London Lark Rising: the story of the people and places of the East India Company

June 9, 2026

Helen Salisbury: GP list cleansing

June 9, 2026

Rammya Mathew: The sleep fairy scandal is a wake-up call for public health

June 9, 2026

AI warfare demands a new era of humanitarian law

June 9, 2026

Partha Kar: NHS workforce planning is missing clarity and direction

June 9, 2026

Is Britain’s health establishment prepared for a populist government?

June 8, 2026

Fit notes and economic inactivity: reforming the form is not enough

June 5, 2026

After remarkable progress, newborn, child, and adolescent survival is now at risk

June 4, 2026

Safer maternity care requires learning from the full breadth of staff and family experiences

June 4, 2026

A lack of accountability leaves medical students vulnerable to harassment and assault on placement

June 3, 2026

The single patient record: a laudable aim, at risk of mistakes that could derail it

June 3, 2026

Prostate cancer: The UK National Screening Committee is right to recommend against population screening

June 2, 2026

Health Bill reforms would silence patient voice in the NHS

June 2, 2026

A single, mandatory warning label on unhealthy foods is key to a joined-up approach to obesity

June 2, 2026

ADHD: The government must finally commit to improving support

May 29, 2026

Maintaining weight loss with tirzepatide . . . and other research

May 28, 2026

Enhanced Games: Bold claims, weak evidence, and serious risks

May 28, 2026

The story of aluminium containing vaccines is bigger than any one study

May 28, 2026

The DRC Ebola outbreak has exposed the consequences of global health underfunding

May 27, 2026

Streeting’s time as health secretary: a missed opportunity

May 27, 2026

David Oliver: The use of advanced practitioners on doctors’ rotas raises wider questions

May 27, 2026

Scarlett McNally: Surgeons and anaesthetists are burnt out, but their teams can help

May 27, 2026

John Launer: Elegy for the Tavistock

May 27, 2026

Helen Salisbury: Goodbye, Mr Streeting

May 26, 2026

Trump and RFK Jr have a new approach to global health: holding vulnerable people to ransom

May 22, 2026

Fear as policy: the health harms of immigration enforcement

May 22, 2026

PMOS: What’s in a name? Everything.

May 20, 2026

Healthcare’s moral emergency: reconnecting healthcare with its mission and purpose

May 20, 2026

WHO’s nuclear war assessment needs an update to reflect current threats

May 20, 2026

How should the next WHO director general confront the new world order?

May 20, 2026

Ambiguous guideline recommendations harm patient care

May 15, 2026

Why I can no longer be silent in the face of antisemitism in the NHS

May 14, 2026

One pill post stroke . . . and other research

May 14, 2026

Rammya Mathew: Recognising neurodiversity is important—but at what cost?

May 13, 2026

Proactive drug safety surveillance should be at the heart of the new Health Data Research Service

May 13, 2026

David Oliver: Overcrowded emergency departments are bad news for patients with delirium and dementia

May 13, 2026

Hantavirus outbreak should reset WHO’s default approach to airborne risk

May 12, 2026

Helen Salisbury: How to make patients feel safe

May 12, 2026

Matt Morgan: It’s bland, inoffensive, and makes no difference—why tofu leadership should be off the NHS menu

May 12, 2026

We can’t explain the UK’s declining healthy life expectancy without talking about austerity

May 12, 2026

Medical ethics education must not end at graduation

May 12, 2026

Women’s health strategy: neighbourhood services are central to reducing health inequalities

May 12, 2026

When I use a word . . . Centenarians

May 8, 2026

The US-Israeli war is driving a displacement crisis in Iran

May 8, 2026

The inflamed new adaptation of Wuthering Heights misses the book’s elemental understanding of body and mind

May 8, 2026

AI is making clinical reasoning optional—and that should worry us

May 7, 2026

Politicised narratives about cousin marriage risk undermining progress

May 7, 2026

The royal colleges have a lot to offer a changing NHS but are an undervalued asset

May 6, 2026

In an uncertain world, investment in health is crucial for security

May 5, 2026

Patients are struggling to access care as Ukraine emerges from its most brutal winter

May 1, 2026

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is understudied in preventive vaccine trials

April 30, 2026

When electricity infrastructure is targeted, health is targeted too

April 30, 2026

Ambient scribes fall short . . . and other research

April 30, 2026

The NHS and industry partnerships: risky alliances

April 30, 2026

Measles is resurging in Bangladesh—but this outbreak was entirely preventable

April 29, 2026

John Launer: Doctors shouldn’t control the narrative

April 29, 2026

Helen Salisbury: AI medical chatbots—more hype than help

April 28, 2026

Scarlett McNally: A bureaucratic “advice and guidance” service wouldn’t have fixed the outpatient waiting list

April 28, 2026

What is the evidence for social media addiction?

April 27, 2026

Medical students can help counter misleading media and political narratives about strikes

April 27, 2026

US research cuts are a shortsighted choice for health and economic policy

April 27, 2026

When I use a word . . . Nocebo

April 24, 2026

Conflicts and a warming world show why we need to end our dependence on fossil fuels

April 24, 2026

Reversing the “feminisation” of the medical profession will not solve the GP workforce crisis

April 24, 2026

Feminist leadership in global health: moving beyond tokenism

April 23, 2026

The BMJ’s medics revue: Comedy as therapy

April 23, 2026

Replacing resident doctors in the NHS will achieve nothing and threaten everything

April 22, 2026

Should doctors speak of their concerns about the mental health of a president?

April 22, 2026

A budget apart: the case for ringfencing medicines in the UK

April 21, 2026

When I use a word . . . The earliest placebo

April 17, 2026

When the SPIRIT moves you: protocol changes can introduce bias in non-inferiority trials

April 17, 2026

The UK government must publish a detailed impact assessment of the costs and benefits of the US-UK medicines partnership

April 17, 2026

The medical regulation process is unfit to handle the complex challenges of our time

April 16, 2026

Healthcare and humanitarian aid are being used as political pawns in conflict settings

April 16, 2026

Managing resistant hypertension . . . and other research

April 16, 2026

Helen Salisbury: Data control, privacy, and Palantir

April 15, 2026

Scarlett McNally: The state of our waterways is a national disgrace

April 15, 2026

Why Sussex needs an inclusive maternity review

April 14, 2026

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry lays bare the cost of delayed action for NHS staff

April 14, 2026

Matt Morgan: The sticky floor test—why I’m returning to face-to-face communication

April 14, 2026

John Launer: Living alongside your illnesses

April 14, 2026

Children’s health and rights are being violated in US immigration detention

April 13, 2026

When I use a word . . . Antedatings in the Oxford English Dictionary

April 10, 2026

The resident doctor strike risks turning into a wider conflict between the government and doctors

April 9, 2026

Make compassion visible in emergency medicine again

April 9, 2026

Health partnerships risk legitimising harmful industries

April 8, 2026

Critical care training enhances intensive care provision in low resource settings

April 8, 2026

From tobacco to TikTok: what public health litigation history tells us about holding social media accountable

April 7, 2026
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