Elizabeth Loder offers her personal selection of papers that engage and inform readers and inform the debate on healthcare Many influential and noteworthy articles appear among the several thousand research papers published by The BMJ over the past 10 years, and there is no single way to identify the very best. Greatness isn’t adequately measured by citations, tweets, or media mentions. Here are…
Systematic reviews with network meta-analysis (NMA) have potential biases in their conduct, analysis, and interpretation. If the results or conclusions of an NMA are integrated…
Body cameras and panic alarms in healthcare settings could act as deterrents and reactive solutions to abusive incidents, writes Caroline Kamau-Mitchell Doctors and healthcare staff…
Performative politics that will disrupt the health service when patients most need it On 13 March, the UK prime minister announced that the Labour government…
We should be increasing our efforts to consolidate global health security, not scaling them back, writes Bob Kitchen The UK has long been a leader…
On 20 February 2025 nearly 300 doctors were told they had been given the wrong results for Part 2 of the Membership of the Royal…
Adults with long term conditions should have their body mass index (BMI) recorded annually, with additional waist-to-height ratio measurements for those with a BMI under…
New criteria come amid discussion of access to weight loss drugs One billion children and adults have obesity.1 Getting the diagnosis of obesity right matters…
Mehmet Oz, a celebrity doctor nominated by President Donald Trump to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), seemed likely to be approved…
Aisha Majid reports on the efforts being made to go beyond EDI initiatives and confront racism head on “I don’t think he realised how offensive…
On 13 March the prime minister, Keir Starmer, announced that NHS England (NHSE) was being abolished. He described it as the “world’s biggest quango,” saying…
