Katharine Lee and colleagues argue that digital menstrual tracking and cycle syncing pose risks to health as well as privacy and call for greater scrutiny of apps Digital menstrual tracking and cycle...

Implementing equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in healthcare research is critical to ensuring findings are translatable and provide the greatest benefit to patients who need it most. A quality ...

Girls denied education today become women with poorer health, write Nadia Akseer and colleagues It’s been five years since the Taliban returned to power, and restrictions on Afghan girls and women h...

Objective To explore how people actively pursuing assisted suicide in Switzerland frame and report the motivations underpinning their decision. Design Qualitative exploratory study using semistructur...

Widespread use of the MSRA prioritises administrative convenience over testing candidates’ competence and suitability to a specialty, writes Azreen Afzal The multi-specialty recruitment assessment (...

This week a study suggesting that very hot drinks can triple the risk of oesophageal cancer gained much attention in the media.1 But how strong is the link, and should doctors be advising patients to...

Financial conflicts of interest remain rife in the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), BMJ analysis reveals. Despite a new code of conduct banning links to the food industry, members wi...

### What you need to know Altitude illness is a collective term for syndromes that can occur in unacclimatised people who travel to destinations higher than 2500 metres above sea level.1,2,3 Altitud...

The UK has entered a new era of climate volatility, in which record breaking temperatures and droughts are expected rather than exceptional events.1 On 14 August, 71.3% of England was declared to be ...

The vilification of Anthony Fauci by Senate Republicans will erode trust in science, curtail international research collaborations, and deter scientists and health experts from entering public service...

When the BMA Resident Doctors Committee called off its last round of industrial action in England in June, it was partly because the government had promised to increase the number of specialty trainin...

Jun Jie Lim and Mo Al-Haddad argue that credible career pathways for international medical graduates must be maintained after legislation to prioritise UK graduates for specialty training The UK’s M...