Dongfeng Gu and colleagues review community based cohort studies in China, finding strategies to improve the quality and scale of these studies in China and beyond Community based cohort studies ...

Three unrelated cases of mpox in California could signal community transmission of a more severe variant of the disease, health officials in the US state warn. Until now all cases of the clade I ...

The cardiovascular benefits of weight loss drug semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) occur regardless of how much weight a person loses or their starting body weight, new analysis suggests.1 Study authors ...

Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan have put a spotlight on attacks on healthcare facilities and staff in conflict zones. The BMJ looks at the data, which seem to show a new strategy of war: removing civilians’ ...

Care Quality Commission chief executive Julian Hartley has resigned with immediate effect after an inquiry was launched into “repeated maternity failures” at the NHS trust he previously ran for 10 ...

Resident doctors in England will return to the picket lines after talks with the government over pay and unemployment stalled. Strikes will take place over a five day period from 7 am on 14 November ...

A British Palestinian doctor under investigation by the General Medical Council for alleged antisemitic remarks has been arrested by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred.

Routine NHS health checks offered by general practices and selected pharmacies in England will include questions about the menopause for the first time in order to “put an end to women suffering in ...

The ceasefire means aid can finally enter the Gaza Strip again, but starvation will affect the Palestinian people for decades. In interviews with The BMJ , researchers compared the crisis to ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research “Atrial fibrillation begets atrial fibrillation” goes the saying, which originated from the title of a highly cited 1995 study of atrial fibrillation in goats.

Unacceptable” long waits are harming life chances Almost a quarter of children needing community care services in England are waiting over a year for treatment, with one in 15 waiting two years, found ...

You will have seen the images: the maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, in 2022—its exterior ripped away, wards reduced to rubble, wounded pregnant women and newborns carried from the debris. A ...