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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Continued measles transmission in London will raise further questions about the capacity of the NHS Vaccination Strategy to improve coverage.[1] The Health and Social ...
About this guideline This BMJ Rapid Recommendation is a summary of a World Health Organization guideline published 12 September 2024. The full guideline is available in MAGICapp and in PDF on the WHO ...
The “land of the free” is almost no longer free of measles, with the US all but certain to lose its elimination certification for the disease after a surge of new infections in January. Outbreaks of ...
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), ...