Almost one in eight phone calls made to NHS hospitals under the Martha’s rule programme have led to a potentially lifesaving change in a person’s treatment, NHS England has said. Early data from ...

Editors in chief spanning the past 50 years met recently to reflect on life, medicine, and The BMJ Clockwise from left: Richard Smith, Kamran Abbasi, Fiona Godlee, Stephen Lock. Credit: Richard H ...

As power shifts from traditional strongholds in the Global North to rising stars in the Global South, Trump’s renewed attacks on multilateralism could have profound consequences for global health, ...

Objective To analyze mortality attributed to Alzheimer’s disease among taxi drivers and ambulance drivers, occupations that demand frequent spatial and navigational processing, compared with other ...

Women who are refugees and have experienced gender based violence in conflict need trauma informed perinatal care. Health professionals require knowledge of the lived legacies of war, write Ayesha ...

If we build poor quality homes now, we are storing up problems for health in the future,” Michael Marmot has warned in a new report1 that calls for health and wellbeing to be placed centre stage in ...

Writer Ivan Illich foresaw out current global polycrisis 50 years ago, which he blamed on us succumbing to industrial tools, not least in “health” care, writes Richard Smith . We need to maximise ...

Increasing production does not necessarily translate to better social outcomes We face a bleak reality. We are in the middle of a mass extinction event driven by human economic activity crossing ...

The number of people seeking medically assisted dying in Canada continued to rise last year, but the rate of growth slowed, government data show.1 Figures for 2023 show that 19 660 Canadians requested ...

The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has sued a New York State doctor for allegedly prescribing medication abortion pills to a Texas woman.1 Margaret Daley Carpenter, a board certified family ...

David Nunan and Jeff Aronson suggest that formal criteria are needed to determine eligibility for posthumous authorship and for dealing with associated ethical problems Posthumous authorship poses ...

A new approach for teaching clinical skills At the heart of the practice of medicine is the tenet “to do good or to do no harm.”1 Fundamental to achieving this objective is continuing professional ...