Much attention has been focused on the Trump administration’s rollback of women’s health and rights. But their alternative model of global health multilateralism will be equally damaging, writes ...

The second Trump presidency looks grim for safe abortion access in aid dependent nations. Sally Howard looks at the global picture and the hopes of fighting back Last year a 17 year old, Patient X, ...

Robust legal, medical, and ethical oversight of assisted dying is essential, writes Richard Huxtable Assisted dying for terminally ill people is set to soon become lawful in the Isle of Man.1 It is on ...

Proven, cost effective interventions to prevent snakebites are failing to lower their toll in India. Why? Christianez Ratna Kiruba reports In the farmlands of India—the country with the highest rate ...

For rate control in older people with established atrial fibrillation, low dose digoxin saves £500 each year compared with beta blockers. It’s not the cost of the drugs—both digoxin and beta blockers ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Most football-obsessed children in the UK could probably name you half a dozen gambling websites, thanks to various sponsorship deals and the constant deluge of ...

Sea sickness is an occupational hazard for anyone working on water, and after serving five years in the Royal Navy John Brand described himself as well qualified to study it, having “suffered severely ...

From Whitehall and Westminster, the NHS can look like an enormous machine made of units of governance, categories of activity, and financial flows. But from my point of view, having spent most of my ...

More advanced methods may enable better modelling Parkinson’s disease is a considerable health problem owing to its high and rising global prevalence, its progressively degenerative nature, and its ...

NHS England published its priorities and operational planning guidance for 2025-26,12 outlining key improvement objectives for the NHS for the first time since Labour took office in 2024. Meanwhile, ...

Targeted NHS retention schemes have helped to reduce the number of doctors and other staff leaving the health service, NHS England has reported. NHS data show that one in 10 (10.1%) hospital and ...

Prevention bombshell” would have been a good cover line for The BMJ issue that included Martin and colleagues’ article1—a mushrooming cloud would be an effective representation of the unthinking creep ...