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Naomi Sutton speaks to George Webster about why she would always choose a career in sexual health Naomi Sutton is a sexual health consultant who was featured on Channel 4’s The Sex Clinic and ...
Leading US medical associations have opened two separate lawsuits against the Trump administration in the hope of stopping the growing politicisation of key national health policy. In one lawsuit the ...
Twenty years ago, one of the London bomb attacks of 7/7 was on a bus passing the headquarters of the BMA (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1416).1 Staff from the BMA and The BMJ helped with the emergency response. It ...
Democrat mayors from Baltimore, Chicago, and Columbus, Ohio, have filed a lawsuit1 against the Trump administration’s rollback of access under the Affordable Care Act, alleging that the changes will ...
Amid international aid cuts, we need renewed focus on our collective goal to bring HIV under control by 2030, write Linda-Gail Bekker and colleagues Since its inception in 2003, the US President’s ...
Microsoft claims its tool can outperform doctors The technology giant Microsoft is claiming that it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can solve complex diagnostic challenges ...
Medicines shortages in England are no longer isolated incidents but a persistent, systemic threat to patients and healthcare delivery, MPs have warned. A report1 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group ...
A BMJ investigation finds more than 90 deals between brands of food or drink that is high in fat, salt, or sugar and sporting entities, amid concerns over such sponsorship’s impact on the UK’s obesity ...
International studies that risked imminent shutdown because of cuts imposed earlier in the Trump administration may have won a reprieve after an apparent change in policy at the US National Institutes ...
Most people do not experience severe withdrawal when discontinuing antidepressants, and clinical guidelines should be updated to reflect this, say the UK authors of the largest review of the evidence ...
The BMA has announced a strike by resident doctors in England for five days later this month, from 7 am on 25 July to 7 am on 30 July. The announcement follows a ballot of resident doctor BMA members ...
The French parliament has passed a controversial bill to reintroduce a neonicotinoid pesticide that is believed to kill bees and cause cancer and other diseases in humans. In the National Assembly, or ...