A top selling antiplatelet drug has never quite shaken off doubts about its advantage over cheaper rivals. With generic versions of ticagrelor about to launch, Peter Doshi takes a fresh look at the ...

The government is planning for a 2.8% pay rise for doctors next year, the Department of Health and Social Care has disclosed. In its submission to the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ ...

Doctors from Syria who work for the NHS have told The BMJ about “Holocaust-like” scenes that have unfolded at the liberated Saydnaya military prison 18 miles north of the Syrian capital, Damascus, ...

We’re stuck in a vicious cycle. Hospital beds are full. Over 12% of hospital inpatients no longer meet the criteria to be there.12 This has knock-on effects for emergency departments and leads to ...

The Royal College of Physicians has been at the centre of the UK row over physician associates. Adele Waters explores what happened and where it leaves the college now In March 2024 the Royal College ...

Estimates of the frequencies of the different types of academic felonies (research misconduct), fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism, are in single figures, at between 2% and 5% of all ...

Downar and colleagues wrongly claim that “eligibility criteria have little effect on who actually receives an assisted death,”1 which erases evidence that the expansion of medical assistance in dying ...

An NHS funded autism diagnostic service in Oxfordshire has closed its list to new patients after warning that it could take until 2043 to clear its current waiting list of over 2000 people. Autism at ...

Lynsey Duncan describes giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to a family member at home, and her difficulties in coming to terms with the experience Friday 5 November 2021 was just another day ...

Restricting advertisements for unhealthy food and drink is an essential step towards a healthier food environment, writes Katharine Jenner In October 2025 the UK will finally introduce restrictions on ...

Weak health systems, increasing drug resistance, and funding shortages are impeding progress towards eliminating malaria, as cases rise but mortality falls, the World Health Organization has said.1 In ...

John Matheson combined his career as a GP with being an accomplished bridge player, winning the Scottish Cup a record 18 times—the first in 1969, the last in 2022. His achievement was all the more ...