If you’re seeking to keep politics out of medicine, good luck with that. It isn’t possible. We’ve previously described the political determinants of health (doi:10.1136/bmj.h81),1 and next we’ll focus ...

Maternity staff are being incentivised to record baby deaths as stillbirths to avoid scrutiny, families have told independent investigators. A review into NHS maternity services led by Baroness Amos ...

Joshi and colleagues give an excellent overview of which interventions in the field of longevity medicine are supported by evidence and which are not but seem to be driven ...

Orforglipron, a new glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist pill, leads to greater glycaemic control and weight loss for patients with type 2 diabetes than oral semaglutide (Rybelsus), ...

The US is targeting African countries with bilateral deals that squeeze governments to secure health security at substantial costs, writes Sophie Harman If 2025 was the year of destruction for global ...

Fifteen Democrat led states have sued the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, over changes to the childhood vaccination schedule. They argue that the changes are politically motivated and ...

Theresa S Betancourt and colleagues argue that implementation and systems strengthening are urgently needed to integrate mental health and psychosocial support interventions across health, education, ...

GP leaders in England have rejected the government’s proposed changes to their contract, saying that it is “unrealistic” and “unsafe” to require practices to deal with all clinically urgent requests ...

Montori and colleagues highlight the destructive effects of the commodification of health data by big tech companies on patient care and present a clear humanistic alternative.1 But, when it comes to ...

All employed government medical personnel in Malawi have been banned from owning and operating private clinics and pharmacies across the country in a directive issued by the president. The order aims ...

Orthopaedics has recently been stunned by a sudden shortage of bone cement.123 As this is the surgical specialty with the largest waiting list,4 concerns were raised about whether the shortage would ...

In 1880 Francis Galton studied people’s ability to create mental images in their mind’s eye. Most people were able to do so, but not scientists. In 2015 Zeman and colleagues labelled this inability ...