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Helen Salisbury: Confidentiality and the single patient record

October 21, 2025

Doctors should be aware of the professional risks that social media exposes them to

October 21, 2025

Rammya Mathew: Redressing the power imbalance in general practice

October 21, 2025

The UK must defend drug price controls

October 20, 2025

Defunding mRNA vaccine research leaves us all more vulnerable to future health emergencies

October 20, 2025

When I use a word . . . Medical analogies and analogues

October 17, 2025

UN special rapporteur’s report on surrogacy encourages us to ask difficult questions

October 16, 2025

Religious partnerships can strengthen health delivery

October 15, 2025

Health professionals should be involved in setting research priorities

October 14, 2025

A new antibiotic is positive news—but it will take more to stay ahead of superbugs

October 13, 2025

When I use a word . . . On the origins of medical words

October 10, 2025

Trump’s war on diversity in medical education could shorten lives

October 10, 2025

The implications of the Make Our Children Healthy Again report for child health and obesity in the US

October 9, 2025

Low dose oral semaglutide for obesity . . . and other research

October 9, 2025

John Launer: The pluripotent consultation

October 8, 2025

Plastic pollution is a worsening public health crisis, but there are solutions

October 7, 2025

Matt Morgan: The death of the traditional medical career

October 7, 2025

Helen Salisbury: GPs versus hairdressers? Streeting has no idea

October 7, 2025

Scarlett McNally: Why I love our new operating theatres

October 7, 2025

No supply, no survival: why patients must be involved in global trade decisions

October 3, 2025

Performative doubt and the fight for public trust

October 3, 2025

When I use a word . . . On becoming a doctor

October 3, 2025

Paracetamol and pregnancy: the real story is a lack of funding for women’s health research

October 2, 2025

David Oliver: League tables are no solution to the problems in NHS hospitals

October 2, 2025

Medical opposition to capital punishment is needed as executions surge

October 1, 2025

Resident doctors shouldn’t depend on exception reporting

October 1, 2025

Partha Kar: MWRES five years on—an opportunity for antiracist action in the NHS

September 30, 2025

“What if”—Two words that are breaking emergency medicine

September 30, 2025

Medical schools should normalise and facilitate students taking a year out

September 30, 2025

We need greater awareness of the ADHD continuum

September 29, 2025

Menopause care is neglected and inequitable

September 29, 2025

When I use a word . . . Paracetamol/acetaminophen—autism and asthma

September 26, 2025

Women’s health hubs offer a scalable, equitable future for gynaecological care

September 26, 2025

A study on the patterns of war related injuries in Gaza was born out of necessity

September 25, 2025

Scarlett McNally: The collective wisdom of older staff is priceless

September 23, 2025

I was arrested for peacefully protesting against genocide—why our medical leaders need to speak up

September 23, 2025

Helen Salisbury: Supply induced demand and waiting lists in general practice

September 23, 2025

Using behavioural sciences could enhance public health messaging on social media

September 23, 2025

The mismatch between physician assistants and doctors in confidence and competence

September 22, 2025

When I use a word . . . Acronymic sleuths

September 19, 2025

Attacks on healthcare in war are being steadily normalized—we need to end impunity

September 19, 2025

John Launer: Medical education must not be forgotten in the latest round of management musical chairs

September 18, 2025

Transparency, voice, and choice: patients must lead on the path to quality improvement in the NHS

September 17, 2025

David Oliver: What does the NHS have planned for doctors’ future careers?

September 17, 2025

GLP-1 receptor agonists risk becoming another story of global health inequity—what can we learn from the response to HIV/AIDS?

September 16, 2025

There’s no shame in stepping off the conveyor belt of medicine

September 15, 2025

When I use a word . . . Academic and other sleuths—a taxonomy

September 12, 2025

Safeguards against domestic abuse and coercion in the assisted dying bill must be strengthened

September 11, 2025

Digital wellbeing training . . . and other research

September 11, 2025

The Lords can make the assisted dying bill more workable

September 10, 2025

Scarlett McNally: Upgrading public transport and active travel can transform communities and public health

September 10, 2025

UK and international aid cuts are fuelling a worldwide health crisis for women and girls

September 10, 2025

Helen Salisbury: Unwelcome surprises in the latest GP contract variation

September 9, 2025

Struggling on in the US federal research system

September 9, 2025

The resurgence of malaria in Africa is an avoidable crisis—here’s what we must do

September 8, 2025

Political polarisation: an overlooked determinant of health

September 5, 2025

Matt Morgan: An alternative medical dictionary for when we have no words

September 4, 2025

General practice must be the foundation of primary care reform

September 3, 2025

Rammya Mathew: Why I use Google in front of my patients—and now AI too

September 2, 2025

War is a global health crisis: community based action can confront it

September 2, 2025

When I use a word . . . Academic sleuths

August 29, 2025

When students lead, professors must stand with them in defence of health and human rights

August 29, 2025

Argentina and the US share an ideological blueprint to destroy science and healthcare

August 29, 2025

When doctors lose their faith in medicine

August 28, 2025

The UK is rapidly losing medical academics and without them the NHS 10 year plan is at risk

August 28, 2025

Patients need information on the risk of second cancer after early breast cancer

August 27, 2025

What is the role of doctors?

August 27, 2025

The United States faces a healthcare affordability crisis

August 27, 2025

When I use a word . . . Research integrity sleuths

August 22, 2025

Medical students are not invisible, patients are watching closely

August 22, 2025

Medicaid cuts will disadvantage all patients—hitting the most vulnerable hardest

August 21, 2025

Filtering the evidence on air filters . . . and other research

August 21, 2025

Partha Kar: The Super Six diabetes care model offers lessons for shifting care into the community

August 20, 2025

Scarlett McNally: Retention and support are key to unlocking the health boosting power of work

August 20, 2025

John Launer: How the term “psychodiversity” can help us understand what it means to be human

August 20, 2025

Helen Salisbury: Blended learning will produce GPs with less experience

August 19, 2025

Female genital mutilation kills—and health workers are part of the problem

August 18, 2025

England can learn from Portugal’s pay for performance model in primary care

August 15, 2025

Administrative overload harms patient care

August 15, 2025

Protect NHS tobacco dependence treatment services from funding cuts—a call from health leaders to NHS England

August 14, 2025

David Oliver: Are more choice and consumerism really solutions to the NHS’s woes?

August 13, 2025

Lifestyle medicine shouldn’t be a separate branch of medicine

August 13, 2025

New rules are required for WHO’s engagement with Big Tech

August 12, 2025

The politics of plenty: why food insecurity persists in a world of abundance

August 11, 2025

Neglecting obesity in the 2025 NCD agenda will leave one billion people behind

August 7, 2025

CBT for chronic pain . . . and other research

August 7, 2025

Ensuring the safety and health of older people at mass gathering events

August 6, 2025

Scarlett McNally: Let’s reverse silent osteoporosis and prevent broken bones

August 6, 2025

Spetspatients are helping to reshape healthcare

August 5, 2025

When I use a word . . . “Publish or perish”: problems and solutions

August 1, 2025

Starvation is a lifelong sentence: Gaza’s civilians must be protected

July 31, 2025

Helen Salisbury: GPs are unhappy about new neighbourhood plans

July 31, 2025

NHS 10 year plan: another lost decade for women’s health

July 31, 2025

No time to waste—we need to start cancer clinical trials faster

July 31, 2025

Reimagining women’s health is a global imperative

July 30, 2025

We need a broader perspective on innovations to advance a women and health agenda

July 30, 2025

Reshaping research and development through women’s leadership

July 30, 2025

Policy shifts jeopardize the future of medical education in the US

July 28, 2025

When I use a word . . . “Publish or perish”: adverse effects

July 25, 2025

The protections for healthcare enshrined in international humanitarian law are under severe strain

July 25, 2025
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