Martin and colleague list multiple arguments against providing health education advice and personal preventive care in general practice and propose separating out what they call “public health” from ...

Martin and colleagues take us back to the 1950s with their call for reactive care for symptomatic demand rather than anticipating asymptomatic needs.1 Their “worthwhile” number needed to treat (NNT) ...

Enshittification was Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year in 2024 and is relevant to the decline of health services with increased privatisation, write Fran Baum , Julia Anaf , and Paul Laris A new ...

The political scientist tells The BMJ how WHO can adapt to a world without US funding—and how health systems must change in a tech dominated era ### Biography Ilona Kickbusch is founder and chair of ...

Flawed evidence risks harming patients Scientific integrity is fundamental not only for the development of science but also to allow society to trust the scientific community and research. However, ...

A leaked proposal shows that President Donald Trump’s administration is planning a significant overhaul of the US Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Institutes of Health ...

The General Medical Council (GMC) did not act unlawfully in referring to physician associates and anaesthesia associates as “medical professionals” and in applying a common set of professional ...

The latest infant mortality data for England and Wales continue to show a stark difference between the most and least deprived areas and between ethnic groups. There were 2320 infant deaths (aged ...

The team responsible for managing the United States’ national guidance on safe and effective use of contraception has been dismissed, causing concern that an essential public health resource could be ...

As the final draft of the 32 page pandemic accord1 lit up the giant screen at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Geneva headquarters at 3 am on 16 April, the world’s health ministers and diplomats ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA), after initial rejection based on an unfavourable risk-benefit balance, recently recommended approval of lecanemab for treating people with mild cognitive ...

Harvard University has defied demands from US president Donald Trump for control over academic decision making and instead sued his administration, charging it with violating the university’s ...