We need to define the concept of early diagnosis The importance of early diagnosis, particularly in cancer, has been covered widely in the media. Improving early diagnosis rates is a politically ...

Hristio Boytchev reveals how an ambitious deal between a leading medical education provider and the tobacco industry collapsed this week The medical education provider Medscape has bowed to pressure ...

A cash injection of £32bn to the NHS might be what The BMJ wants,1 but it is not what England needs. The people of England need The BMJ to work with the Department of Health and Social Care and the ...

Medical academia is experiencing a “deepening crisis” that calls for immediate action, the outgoing acting president of the Academy of Medical Sciences has warned. In a letter to academy fellows, Paul ...

The judge who heads the High Court’s family division has warned of the risks of obtaining hormone prescriptions from online gender clinics, after an expert witness told the court that a teenager had ...

The state of Florida, the third most populous state in the US, banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy on 1 May, bringing down the 15 week limit set in 2022 which replaced the previous limit of ...

Over the past year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has grappled with the largest outbreak of mpox in the past half century. Despite obstacles, an enhanced response to the crisis can provide a ...

These children are at risk of poor physical, emotional, mental, and social outcomes In March 2024, the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reported new data on household food insecurity for ...

A campaign group representing people affected by the UK infected blood scandal is calling on its members to lobby their MPs and working peers to save the compensation scheme. Former judge Brian ...

Plans by the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, to overhaul the sick note system in the UK have left me with mixed emotions. A more independent process, overseen by professionals skilled in occupational ...

The BMA has asked the General Medical Council (GMC) to work with it to review the basis on which former GP and climate activist Sarah Benn found herself in front of a medical tribunal.1 Benn was ...

Michael Padget and colleagues argue that making environmental sustainability a measure of health system quality will support progress and help fulfil systems’ fundamental mission to protect and ...