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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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