The core qualities of a good doctor risk being overshadowed by academic qualifications that have little bearing on patient care, says Azreen Afzal The question of what makes a good doctor has never ...

Was Emily Brontë familiar with sexual choking? From Emerald Fennell’s reimagining of Wuthering Heights , you’d think so. Fennell’s film, among its other questionable choices, panders to the current ...

NHS knee and hip operations could be cancelled or delayed because of a global shortage of bone cement products, NHS England has said.12 Shortages have been caused by a packaging fault at Heraeus ...

Concerns about a £40.5m programme to train doctors from overseas in the NHS have been raised at the highest levels of the Pakistani government. Last month The BMJ revealed that the programme at ...

In 2024 NHS staff reported working unpaid overtime equivalent to at least 49 000 full time employees. Such discretionary effort has long underpinned NHS service delivery, but recent data show it is ...

The relation between social media use and adolescent wellbeing may not be as simple or linear as many people believe. In a large Australian cohort followed over three years, moderate after-school ...

This destructive policy demands that we work harder, smarter, and together to understand the implications and mitigate its impacts, writes Carole Sekimpi In January 2025, US President Trump reinstated ...

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials have suddenly reversed their position on a new mRNA flu jab that they previously refused to allow into the medicine approval process.1 Less than a week ...

A man in his 60s presented with a six month history of shortness of breath, left sided chest pain, and left thigh swelling. He had chronic pancreatitis related to alcohol use and continued to drink 70 ...

A man in his late teens presented with a six month history of painless bright red blood in his stool and on wiping. He also reported subjective, non-specific weight loss over the same period. The ...

Nikki Romanik and Ashish K Jha propose a new surveillance system to detect and attribute emerging biological threats to enable a rapid public health response Recent advances in bioengineering ...

The number of private longevity medicine clinics has exploded in recent years. For the doctors who join them, the opportunity to work with patients over longer consultations and focus on prevention ...