Government action needed now to reduce infections and deaths The resurgence of covid-19 in the autumn of 2020 in many northern countries, including the UK, has been associated with tremendous morbidity and mortality. Before vaccination, the public health response focused on testing and population-wide restrictions, with the goal of decreasing contact between susceptible and contagious…
A former GP and climate activist who spent 32 days in prison for breaching an injunction banning protests outside an oil terminal against the production…
As a way to mark our 10 year anniversary since launching our patient and public partnership strategy (https://www.bmj.com/campaign/patient-partnership) we are going to publish a patient…
### What you need to know Double vision, or diplopia, may be the first sign of sight or life threatening pathology. A thorough, accurate first…
Argentina’s healthcare system is under threat from the dengue crisis and its president’s systematic dismantling of science. Martín de Ambrosio reports The worst dengue outbreak…
An evaluation of the NHS digital weight management programme shows that people who completed it lost 3.9 kg over 12 weeks. When everyone who started…
The number of adverse impacts on health related to extreme weather and climate events is continuing to rise in Europe, an EU report1 has found.…
Cardiologist Tharusha Gunawardena tells Helen Jones about his passion for Brazilian jiujitsu “I’m talking with a bit of a lisp because I got hit in…
Canadians support it, public health demands it, now policy makers must deliver it Canada’s universal healthcare system, often referred to as Medicare, provides universal, public…
NHS England is exploring ways it can reduce the amount of statutory and mandatory training that doctors undertake, to free up clinicians’ time to care…
Drug regulators in several African countries have recalled a batch of Johnson & Johnson children’s cough syrup after officials in Nigeria reported high levels of…
