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When I use a word . . . Academic publishing: the impact factor

February 14, 2025

Why the General Medical Council should discipline doctors who misuse social media

February 14, 2025

Early cancer diagnosis is vital, but treatment delays are causing harm to patients

February 14, 2025

Detained at the doctor’s office: US immigration policy endangers health

February 13, 2025

Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system

February 12, 2025

The NHS in England needs a fourth shift to transform care and outcomes

February 12, 2025

Abandoning research participants is an unconscionable betrayal

February 12, 2025

Power, patients, and change: Young people can help to reimagine healthcare

February 12, 2025

Pulling resources and blocking access to key scientific data will cause untold long term harm

February 11, 2025

Better mental health support would help young people and the economy

February 10, 2025

When I use a word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2025: digitalis and the treatment of dropsy

February 10, 2025

Should we consider a “three strikes and you’re in” rule in general practice?

February 6, 2025

As a medical intern in Gaza, I have stepped out of the classroom and onto the front line

February 6, 2025

Zolendronate for vertebral fractures … and other research

February 6, 2025

Medical education in Gaza must be protected

February 6, 2025

Scarlett McNally: Improving health to improve the economy

February 5, 2025

John Launer: Revisiting herd immunity

February 5, 2025

We need to counter industry promotion of harmful products to protect public health

February 5, 2025

The case for women’s leadership in global health

February 4, 2025

Using a private member’s bill to legislate on assisted dying lacks the necessary preparation for an informed debate

February 4, 2025

We must recognise the collective wisdom of those with lived experience of long covid

February 4, 2025

Helen Salisbury: Preventing ill health requires investment

February 4, 2025

Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology

February 4, 2025

We must unite against regressive policies and systems that perpetuate injustice

February 3, 2025

Alcohol labelling and cancer: a way to empower consumers despite industry opposition

January 31, 2025

When I use a word . . . Lexicographic anniversaries in 2025: Placebo

January 31, 2025

The US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement: could it trump progress on climate change and health?

January 30, 2025

President Trump wants an alternative to the World Health Organization: how should we respond?

January 30, 2025

David Oliver: Losing too many NHS hospital beds has been an act of avoidable self-sabotage with predictable consequences

January 30, 2025

Trump’s global gag rule on abortion care will damage women’s health, rights, and futures

January 27, 2025

Ending gambling adverts could prevent harm to millions of adults and children in the UK

January 27, 2025

When I use a word . . . Lexicographic anniversaries in 2025

January 24, 2025

Children First? We need to rethink global governance to prioritise child health

January 24, 2025

The review of physician and anaesthesia associate roles will be transparent and evidence based

January 23, 2025

Exercise training in heart failure … and other research

January 23, 2025

Dear sceptics of patient engagement in research

January 22, 2025

What black women in medicine stand to lose in the US’s war on diversity, equity, and inclusion

January 22, 2025

Scarlett McNally: Surgical hubs need to be ringfenced within hospitals to prevent patients being left behind

January 21, 2025

Helen Salisbury: Electronic prescribing in hospitals is well overdue

January 21, 2025

The US withdrawal from the WHO: a global health crisis in the making

January 21, 2025

Children are bearing the brunt of violence in Gaza

January 20, 2025

Unfair specialty recruitment practices threaten the NHS’s future workforce

January 17, 2025

Elective care reform: more activity does not necessarily mean better care

January 17, 2025

Diagnosing the undiagnosed—what happened to PIMS?

January 17, 2025

Ethics and corridor care: a contradiction in terms?

January 16, 2025

NHS emergency department pressures are not because of a single point of failure, it’s the whole system that’s struggling

January 16, 2025

Winter viruses: we can do more to prevent a surge in cases

January 15, 2025

John Launer: Losing touch with NHS reality

January 15, 2025

Tackling drug shortages must be an urgent priority for the NHS

January 15, 2025

Halting medical doctor degree apprenticeships is a sensible decision

January 14, 2025

Partha Kar: The new storm propagated by poor medical workforce planning is now upon us

January 14, 2025

Keep it in the ground: climate change could prompt the reemergence of zombie pathogens

January 14, 2025

Total criminalisation of abortion is a threat to sexual and reproductive health in Brazil

January 10, 2025

What “dose” of anxiety is needed to awaken transformative action on climate change?

January 10, 2025

We need to focus on local solutions for health inequalities

January 10, 2025

When I use a word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2025

January 10, 2025

Governance of national public health agencies: a crucial yet neglected aspect of health emergency preparedness and response

January 9, 2025

The cost of NICE appraisals … and other research

January 9, 2025

John Launer: Taking the temperature of the consultation

January 8, 2025

Scarlett McNally: We can do more to prevent healthcare worker suicides

January 8, 2025

AI in medicine: preparing for the future while preserving what matters

January 7, 2025

Smoking’s pop culture revival is an unwelcome throwback for public health

January 7, 2025

Matt Morgan: A living funeral with my friends

January 7, 2025

Helen Salisbury: Is GPs’ access to scans just another transfer of work to general practice?

January 7, 2025

Health ministers in England face hard choices in 2025

January 7, 2025

Social care reform is welcome, but success will rely on political commitment

January 6, 2025

An early warning system could help to protect resident doctor welfare

January 6, 2025

Another winter of discontent looms for NHS urgent and emergency care

January 3, 2025

Poor quality housing is harming our health

January 2, 2025

We need a global agreement to safeguard human health from plastic pollution

January 2, 2025

Christmas 2024: End-of-life care needs decolonising

December 23, 2024

When I use a word . . . Academic integrity—principles and definitions

December 23, 2024

Governing global health with a planetary mindset

December 23, 2024

“Rookie factor”: why healthcare workforce policy needs to embrace experience

December 20, 2024

Survivors of war and conflict need contextualised trauma informed perinatal care

December 17, 2024

Recovery is missing in the pandemic treaty

December 16, 2024

Medical education fit for the future requires radical change

December 16, 2024

Turn towards the hand in the fire—to care is to witness and condemn atrocities everywhere

December 16, 2024

When I use a word . . . Academic integrity—defining misdemeanours

December 13, 2024

We need to transform women’s healthcare to tackle “medical misogyny”

December 13, 2024

Afghanistan: the Taliban’s restrictions on midwifery training will jeopardise the health of women and babies

December 13, 2024

Christmas 2024: Architecture and public health—from harmful designs to healthy built environments

December 13, 2024

How is the climate crisis affecting our food supplies?

December 13, 2024

Sudan has spiralled into a humanitarian catastrophe, but the IRC is helping to restore hope in communities

December 12, 2024

Christmas 2024: Demedicalising dying—medicine must accept death as a natural part of life

December 12, 2024

US public health would be in danger under Robert F Kennedy Jr

December 12, 2024

Aortic valve replacements … and other research

December 12, 2024

Scarlett McNally: Improving our health will reduce the strain on social care

December 11, 2024

Bans on junk food advertising are a vital move to protect our children’s health

December 11, 2024

When I use a word . . . Academic felonies and misdemeanours—adverse effects

December 11, 2024

Rammya Mathew: New guidance is a golden opportunity to tangibly improve asthma care

December 10, 2024

Helen Salisbury: An illusion of control

December 10, 2024

Health professionals must demand action on femicide and abuse

December 10, 2024

Doctors’ clinical judgment risks being sacrificed on the altar of protocol driven care

December 9, 2024

It’s time to end the policy vacuum on alcohol harm in England, if this government is serious about shifting its focus to prevention

December 6, 2024

US election: we must recognise threats to reproductive rights and health

December 6, 2024

Advances in breast cancer and bowel cancer treatments … and other research

December 5, 2024

John Launer: In thrall to screens and illusions

December 4, 2024

Better to demedicalise rather than further medicalise and bureaucratise death

December 4, 2024

The baby food aisle is a blind spot in health policy and governance

December 4, 2024
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