Sewage surveillance is going through a rebirth as covid, monkeypox, and now polio bring new urgency to virus detection. Bryn Nelson reports Amid widespread polio outbreaks in the summer of 1939, researchers from Yale University first detected poliovirus in sewage samples from Charleston, South Carolina, and Detroit, Michigan. Sweden’s State Bacteriological Institute replicated that successful…
Health and care leaders and policy makers at every level should urgently implement WHO’s recent framework on engagement, write Maia Olsen, Katia de Pinho Campos,…
The US has recorded its highest number of confirmed measles cases since the year 2000, adding to fears that falling rates of vaccination are allowing…
A survey by the Unite union1 has found that almost a fifth of female healthcare workers have experienced work related sexual assault. Unite counts 65 000…
Laura Schmidt and colleagues identify systemic financial conflicts of interest that serve as a cautionary tale for users of medical guidelines Prescribing glucagon-like peptide 1…
For AI to have a meaningful impact, it must be deployed not just as a technological fix, but as a catalyst for systemic reform, write…
Twenty years ago, one of the London bomb attacks of 7/7 was on a bus passing the headquarters of the BMA (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1416).1 Staff from the…
Sustainable change requires improved study design, market incentives, and patient involvement, write Kate Womersley and colleagues For too long, medical research has defaulted to male…
Naomi Sutton speaks to George Webster about why she would always choose a career in sexual health Naomi Sutton is a sexual health consultant who…
A mosquito borne virus that causes mass livestock abortions has killed hundreds of people in East Africa—and climate change is accelerating its spread. Frank Burkybile…
Objective To determine the risk of subsequent ipsilateral invasive breast cancer in women who do not receive upfront surgery on diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in…
