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Smartphones and children: teenage mental health is suffering

May 19, 2025

Palliative care commission must focus on ageing population

May 16, 2025

UK’s palliative care commission offers global insight

May 16, 2025

Poor workforce planning blocks access to palliative care

May 15, 2025

Smartphones and children: algorithm driven social media should be the focus of action

May 15, 2025

Antiracism in healthcare education: moving from theory to practice

May 14, 2025

Suggesting the world is “post-covid” contributes to an unwitting shift in research priorities

May 14, 2025

We must critically assess advance care planning and electronic palliative care coordination systems

May 12, 2025

Palliative care commission: recognising and supporting unpaid carers

May 12, 2025

Efforts to improve end-of-life care must focus on marginalised communities

May 8, 2025

Public health approach to gambling related harms

May 7, 2025

From fossil dependency to fiscal collapse: the unspoken cost of inaction

May 7, 2025

We need to remind ourselves of the core purpose of immigration detention

May 6, 2025

Prioritising nuclear preparedness: are we making ourselves safer or sicker?

May 6, 2025

Confusion between population risk prediction and individual disease

May 2, 2025

Better communication about vaccines could tackle scepticism

May 2, 2025

Patient passports have the potential to improve patient care

May 1, 2025

Clinical practice is more than adhering to protocol

April 30, 2025

Nuclear strikes: educating the public in emergency healthcare tasks

April 30, 2025

Cost of coal: Trump’s energy policy could burden the US economy

April 29, 2025

Nuclear confrontations: regional collaboration will be needed

April 29, 2025

Abolishing NHS England will make only modest savings

April 28, 2025

Public health belongs in local government

April 28, 2025

Specialty recruitment: points mean prizes

April 25, 2025

An army of SHOs: the result of bottlenecks in UK postgraduate medical training

April 25, 2025

Countries should strengthen their health information systems

April 24, 2025

Postgraduate training crisis: a moral issue

April 24, 2025

Prevention advice is a core function of general practice

April 23, 2025

Sacrificing prevention to save primary care

April 23, 2025

Concerns about the approval of lecanemab for Alzheimer’s disease

April 22, 2025

Reforming diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to prioritise evidence based strategies

April 9, 2025

Racialised health inequalities in maternity care

April 7, 2025

Climate activists should be applauded as advocates for public health

April 7, 2025

Stalled life expectancy: social inequalities can kill

April 4, 2025

Tackling obesity: government must learn from failures in tobacco control

April 3, 2025

Improving gynaecology with trauma informed care

April 2, 2025

Northern Ireland needs a practitioner health service

April 1, 2025

HIV in primary care: further considerations

April 1, 2025

System-wide reform needed to tackle the root causes of burnout

March 28, 2025

Children will suffer from changes to US research system

March 26, 2025

Increasing suicides of female healthcare workers indicate a population and economy at risk

March 25, 2025

Preventing ill health requires dismantling of the structures that have failed

March 25, 2025

Trump 2.0—a backwards step for women’s sexual and reproductive rights

March 24, 2025

Art of “holding patient care in general practice” is key to survival of the NHS

March 24, 2025

Revolution in academic medicine: reducing bureaucratic barriers

March 20, 2025

Climate activism: a necessity to protect public health

March 20, 2025

“Rule of three” for medical decision making

March 13, 2025

Being reckless with public health is an efficient way to cause outbreaks

March 10, 2025

Severing the link between gambling advertising and harm

March 6, 2025

Deadly disease outbreaks in Africa underscore the need for US WHO membership

March 5, 2025

Prevention in primary care: more of the same is not the answer

March 5, 2025

Sacrificing population health for the medical industry: a distortion of priorities

March 4, 2025

Assisted dying legislation: private member’s bills and the need for more research

February 28, 2025

Losing touch with NHS reality: government on trajectory to two tier service

February 27, 2025

Adult social care reform must include prevention

February 25, 2025

Prevention and a community focus are integral to general practice

February 14, 2025

We need a functioning national illness service

February 11, 2025

Regional and national disparities in bed numbers are stark

February 10, 2025

Academic medicine: integrating community insights and equity

February 7, 2025

Sexual harassment: prioritising safety at work

February 7, 2025

Social factors are crucial to encouraging physical activity

February 6, 2025

We undervalue funerals at our peril

February 5, 2025

Would pandemic responses be better directed from central government?

February 5, 2025

Predatory journals: who should we blame?

February 4, 2025

Revolutionising academic medicine must include communities and patients

February 4, 2025

Carbon effectiveness in healthcare is long overdue

February 3, 2025

Space(s) for medical education

January 31, 2025

Medical education research needs attention

January 31, 2025

Understanding intergenerational differences should be part of medical education

January 30, 2025

CPR: treating our own fear of death?

January 30, 2025

Storytelling as a tool for teaching paediatric concepts

January 27, 2025

Direct-to-consumer genetic tests also need to be regulated

January 24, 2025

Getting assisted dying conversations right for patients

January 24, 2025

Radiology’s role in humanising mortality

January 23, 2025

Healthcare workers should get covid-19 vaccinations

January 22, 2025

Fossil fuel industry funding undermines the integrity of scientific findings

January 22, 2025

Critical problems with training and retention of doctors

January 21, 2025

Training has become purgatory—and this needs to change

January 21, 2025

Out-of-area mental health placements: we must increase resources for severe mental illness and capacity for inpatient care

January 20, 2025

Tackling gender disparities in physician suicide: insights from India

January 20, 2025

Childhood obesity: positive change is possible

January 17, 2025

Criminal behaviour cannot be excused in the name of activism

January 17, 2025

Children’s right to oral health—day to day, right from the start

January 15, 2025

Medical and political paternalism and the end of life

January 15, 2025

Acute painful crisis in sickle cell disease: transfusion is not a benign treatment

January 10, 2025

Author’s reply to Wolf

January 10, 2025

Tools to assist identification of child abuse, neglect, and exploitation

January 9, 2025

Keeping ethical pace with medical research: the 10th revision of the Declaration of Helsinki

January 8, 2025

Appropriate statistical methods are necessary for ethical medical research

January 7, 2025

Attacks on science highlight the importance of promoting academic medicine

January 6, 2025

Healthcare must strengthen its cybersecurity

January 2, 2025

Better patient information would improve consent process for anaesthetic drugs

December 31, 2024

Patient information on new drugs: almost insurmountable obstacles

December 30, 2024

NHS provider league table: reward everybody, not just managers

December 24, 2024

Prioritising patients back to work: a small step for NICE, a giant leap for the NHS

December 23, 2024

GPs should trust musculoskeletal clinicians’ expertise

December 20, 2024

More scans, more problems—let’s fund prevention instead

December 17, 2024

Enhancing general practice care for asylum seekers and refugees in the community

December 13, 2024

Early warning scores: a system designed in a hospital ward is unlikely to work in general practice

December 13, 2024

Association for Palliative Medicine and its members’ dissenting views

December 12, 2024
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