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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

US immigration detention centers threaten health and human rights

July 25, 2025

Patient safety through the eyes of the patient—it resides in relationships and trust

July 24, 2025

Battle of the weight loss giants . . . and other research

July 24, 2025

John Launer: The consolation of trees

July 23, 2025

We are falling short of the critical immunisation threshold to protect against measles

July 22, 2025

Scarlett McNally: What do we need from doctors in leadership positions?

July 22, 2025

Helen Salisbury: Physician assistant roles in general practice after the Leng review

July 21, 2025

Malnutrition with use of GLP-1 agonists is an underestimated real world harm

July 21, 2025

Partha Kar: The Leng review offers pragmatism along with lessons for the NHS

July 21, 2025

When I use a word . . . “Publish or perish”: collocates reflect attitudes

July 18, 2025

Hope over experience? Patient and staff voice in the NHS after the Dash review

July 18, 2025

Competing for a specialty training post feels like a high stakes game of musical chairs

July 16, 2025

Calls for a ban on consanguineous marriage are misguided

July 16, 2025

The Leng review: recommendations provide a constructive way forward

July 16, 2025

Farewell, associates. Welcome back assistants

July 16, 2025

Matt Morgan: Flip phones, flying cars, and 20 years of working in medicine

July 15, 2025

Precision public health must get political

July 14, 2025

Failing to collect, analyse, and report ethnicity data in clinical research leads to healthcare inequalities

July 14, 2025

When I use a word . . . “Publish or perish”: origins and a definition

July 12, 2025

Looking back at failure and forward to improvement: Will Wes Streeting’s proposed maternity plan lead to change?

July 11, 2025

We must fill the void in global HIV care without PEPFAR

July 10, 2025

Diabetes deprescribing . . . and other research

July 10, 2025

Scarlett McNally: We can’t rely on the robots to fix the NHS

July 9, 2025

The NHS needs a domestic abuse strategy

July 9, 2025

The NHS is dodging accountability for medical recruitment failures

July 8, 2025

NHS 10 year plan: Can using AI offer a solution to the NHS’ problems?

July 8, 2025

Obesity in Latin America: effective responses value lived experience

July 8, 2025

Decolonisation of global health must include civil society

July 8, 2025

Meaningful engagement with people with lived experience: challenging, messy, and more vital than ever

July 8, 2025

Engaging with patients in humanitarian crises: learning from access to insulin in Ukraine

July 8, 2025

Stigmatising language made me avoid diabetes care; meaningful engagement with people with diabetes is the answer

July 8, 2025

Meaningful engagement with LGBTQI+ lived expertise can reduce inequity in mental healthcare

July 8, 2025

Helen Salisbury: What the NHS 10 year plan means for GPs

July 7, 2025

Practical steps are required to prioritise women’s health in research globally

July 7, 2025

When I use a word . . . Why write? The cacoethes scribendi

July 4, 2025

Rammya Mathew: The NHS 10 year plan—patient power or quiet exclusion?

July 4, 2025

David Oliver: The NHS 10 year plan—more a set of ambitions than a plan

July 4, 2025

Health research in England is grinding to a halt

July 4, 2025

Partha Kar: The NHS 10 year plan is torn between genuine change and political expediency

July 4, 2025

The antivaccine movement threatens health in the US and worldwide

July 3, 2025

Volunteering in free clinics carries a moral cost for medical students

July 3, 2025

The UK must not fail Gaza—a call for government action

July 2, 2025

Listening is a tool for health equity, not just a soft skill

July 2, 2025

Suspending the NHS medicines repurposing programme in England is a missed opportunity

July 2, 2025

The United Nations political declaration on non-communicable diseases and mental health needs a just and action driven approach

July 1, 2025
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