Crider and colleagues discuss the availability of personal and private medical records held by the NHS.1 Cybercrime is another area of concern. I recently researched occurrences of cybercrime against ...

Unresolved disagreements hinder progress towards the UN led treaty that could protect human and environmental health from the harms of plastic pollution, write Cressida Bowyer and Stephen Fletcher In ...

Ethnic minority groups have regained their lower mortality Mortality rates in England and Wales have undergone remarkable changes over the past five years, with the pandemic bringing a surge not seen ...

The UK is not a good place to be poor. It is not even a very good place if you are middle income or below. Over the past 14 years, life expectancy has not improved, health inequalities have increased, ...

Pilot medical apprenticeship programmes in England, which were being trialled as a new route into the profession, have been paused by the government. Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, one of the ...

Davis and colleagues highlight the critical need for clearer and more accessible information about medicines for patients.1 As an anaesthetist, I often encounter challenges in communicating the risks ...

A consultant psychiatrist has been struck off the UK medical register after a tribunal found that he had engaged in “scaremongering” over coronavirus vaccines in an online video. Daniel Armstrong ...

Absolutely. As the name suggests, Veganuary encourages people to go vegan at the start of every year. Exactly! And eating more leaves too. The benefits of a plant based diet are well documented.1 It’s ...

The last major hospital in northern Gaza is now out of commission after a raid by Israeli forces left its surgical unit, medical store, and laboratory “burnt and severely damaged.” Staff and ...

Getting aid to the millions facing “mass starvation” in Sudan’s brutal and escalating civil war is a top priority for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the subject of this year’s BMJ appeal.

Preliminary laboratory findings suggest that a mystery illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a combination of common and seasonal viral respiratory infections and malaria, the World ...

New administration has pledged massive reform but said little on how to achieve it The incoming US administration has signalled its intent to make large changes to the federal government’s approach to ...