Donald Trump’s America First Global Health Strategy has been largely welcomed by global health experts, but some have raised concerns over the practicalities of its implementation and gaps in its ...
Recognising that ADHD exists on a continuum could help reduce misunderstanding and improve interventions, writes Jonna Kuntsi The debate around attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), in the ...
Sustained research effort and investment is required to reduce inequities in menopause care In the UK, women living in areas of socioeconomic disadvantage have shorter life expectancies and spend more ...
The doctors’ union the BMA has given the health secretary, Wes Streeting, until Wednesday 1 October to prevent a formal dispute over plans to allow patients to make unlimited online consultation ...
A planned clinical trial to assess the safety of puberty blockers in children with gender distress poses too many ethical and methodological problems to proceed. That was the verdict from experts ...
Despite the headlines, covid-19 vaccines remain more widely accessible in the US than in the UK.  Owen Dyer  investigates US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr recently moved to restrict access to ...
Elisabeth Mahase hears how doctors can support colleagues who are struggling, including with burnout Sue Carr, General Medical Council deputy medical director, says, “In August we published our annual ...
Diabetes is one of the most common conditions in the world and is associated with a broad range of adverse effects in multiple organ systems. Roughly half of all patients with diabetes will develop a ...
Objective To develop and validate a novel risk prediction model for incident major adverse liver outcomes (MALO) in a primary care setting. Design Population based cohort study. Setting Sweden, with ...
In line with my observations of half a decade ago, that telemedicine diminishes the doctor-patient relationship (1), the advent of no-touch medicine and distancing by means of telephone and email, ...
NHS physiotherapist Lindsey Burrow—wife of rugby player Rob Burrow who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019 and died last year—speaks to The BMJ about the importance of the NHS supporting ...
Unexpected US intervention has led to a declaration to tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs) failing to be approved at the ...