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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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