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Is this about fake news?Kind of. It is a truth universally acknowledged that you shouldn’t…

We agree with Astrup and colleagues that the World Health Organization should reconsider its dietary…

Boris Johnson has announced that his government will release £1.8bn (€2bn; $2.2bn) to fund new…

Thousands of healthcare workers in Hong Kong have rallied to protest against what they see…

Mara Kardas-Nelson: How does clinical care differ in Sierra Leone and DRC?Ian Crozier: I got…

The number of children exposed to HIV who remain uninfected has been rising over the…

ABSTRACTEssential tremor is one of the most common movement disorders in adults and can affect…

Yes—David R Urbach, Justin B DimickExtraordinary claims, Carl Sagan used to say, require extraordinary evidence….

Doctors and public health experts have written to the US House of Representatives calling for…

We agree that high vaccine coverage is key to the eradication of cervical cancer1; Australia’s…

An alerting tool developed in cooperation with the Google company DeepMind to speed up the…

Researchers say that high coverage of human papillomavirus vaccination could eradicate cervical cancer. There are…

People with the inherited disease Lynch syndrome should be offered daily aspirin to reduce their…

Babylon is now worth more than $2bn (£1.6bn; €1.8bn), after some new funders, including the…

The Climate Change Act 2008 was introduced to ensure that the UK cuts carbon emissions…

With well over a thousand drug related deaths in Scotland last year, more than double…

bmj;366/aug01_10/l4999/FAF1faIsobel Tomkins grew up in Beckenham, Kent, as the oldest of three sisters. She was…

bmj;366/aug01_9/l4958/FAF1faDewan Wahedun Nabi (“Waheed”) completed his MBBS qualifications in Rajshahi Medical College, Bangladesh in 1967….

bmj;366/aug01_11/l5000/FAF1faAfter junior posts and a spell as a ship’s surgeon on a P&O liner, Robert…

bmj;366/aug01_8/l4957/FAF1faAndrew John Armour (“Sandy”) died peacefully at home in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, on 29 June…

bmj;366/aug01_7/l4945/FAF1faHarvey Baker was born in Leeds and was evacuated to Doncaster during the second world…

bmj;366/aug01_6/l4943/FAF1faVerna Houghton was a most worthy partner of exceptional talents. Having qualified as one of…

Thousands of GPs and consultants in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland have reduced their working…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is grappling with the world’s second largest Ebola epidemic…

In May 2019, the 72nd World Health Assembly acknowledged the health of refugees and migrants…

What you need to knowSurgery, through the abdomen or perineum, is the definitive treatment to…

AbstractObjectiveTo determine if genetically increased serum calcium levels are associated with improved bone mineral density…

Family planning clinics that leave the US government’s Title X programme may have to return…

Voluntary licences that allow low and middle income countries to manufacture patented hepatitis C medicines…

Local US laws banning the sale of tobacco to people aged under 21 have reduced…

Junior doctors have won a Court of Appeal test case over the way their rest…

As a doctor, your CV represents the sum total of relevant medical activity in your…

This year’s IAS 2019 Conference on HIV Science, held in Mexico City on 21-24 July,…

Financing sustainable development, especially for health, is important for dealing with the tremendous challenges faced…

Summary pointsThe Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement provides a minimum set of 25…

A major review into the operation of Scotland’s breast cancer screening programme is to be…

bmj;366/jul30_9/l4940/FAF1faThe cover of the 1997 doctoral thesis of Dutch neuropsychiatrist and sexual medicine researcher Marcel…

On a Monday night in July, shortly before Boris Johnson became our new prime minister,…

For once, an important vote went the way that the vast majority of pundits predicted,…

Burnout has become a big concern within healthcare. It is a response to prolonged exposure…

Drug resistant strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae—bacteria that live harmlessly in the human intestine but can…

Doctors will reduce their workloads or leave the NHS entirely unless pension taxation rules are…

An error occurred in figure 2 of this paper by Seminog and colleagues (BMJ 2019;36:l1778,…

Minimizing recurrent venous thromboembolism Read Original Article: Correction for vol. 366, p. »

bmj;366/jul29_13/l4900/FAF1faJohn Kenneth Roberts (“Ken”) was born in a humble terraced house in Holyhead. His father…

bmj;366/jul29_12/l4884/FAF1faMy friend and former colleague, Thomas Gruffydd Davies (“Tom”), died at the age of 87…

bmj;366/jul29_11/l4881/FAF1faBarry Bray was educated at Hitchin Boys’ Grammar School, where he was an accomplished athlete…

bmj;366/jul29_10/l4879/FAF1faJohn Michael Wales was brought up in Cambridge and educated at the Perse School. Between…

bmj;366/jul29_9/l4880/FAF1faHugh Shuter Platt entered University College Hospital in 1953. He was an exceptionally able student,…

Progress is being made in the fight against tobacco, but some countries are still not…