UK regulators must produce clear guidelines for the prescribing and monitoring of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists for weight loss, particularly when treatment is initiated online, GP ...

People who were vaccinated against herpes zoster were 26% less likely to die from heart disease or have a stroke, heart attack, or heart failure compared with people who hadn’t been vaccinated, ...

In 2004, we published a historic theme issue on South Asia (doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7443.777)1 with a grand ambition: “This non-political collaboration may be the beginning of a sustained and combined ...

Leaders across the globe must now decide whether to act to end the “escalating atrocities in Gaza” or “bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population,” UN experts have said.1 The 39 ...

The way we treat staff working in the healthcare system is crucial to the success of any reform, say Isabelle Brown and Laura Turner The NHS workforce is under considerable operational pressure at ...

Higginson and Ramjeeawon emphasise the urgent need to tackle inequality in access to hospice and end-of-life care.1 Central to this effort must be a deliberate focus on those living at the ...

A role for primary care Advances in intensive care medicine have improved survival rates, yet post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains a prevalent and often underdiagnosed consequence among ...

As a co-founder of the British Paediatric Respiratory Group at the University of Edinburgh, and later as professor of child health at the University of Leicester, Hamish Simpson helped to establish ...

Acute ischemic stroke is a leading global cause of death and disability. Intravenous thrombolysis was the first acute treatment developed for ischemic strokes. First with alteplase and now with ...

Around one in six general practices in England will receive funding to help them modernise their premises this financial year, the government has announced. A total of £102m has been allocated to be ...

Two children from Gaza who arrived in London on 26 April for urgent medical treatment were the first medical evacuees from the region to the UK since the conflict between Hamas and Israel broke out on ...

Francis and colleagues’ summary of the NICE clinical guideline on gambling related harms is an excellent synopsis of a complex piece of guidance in a difficult and emerging space.1 Most public health ...