Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism

Damning National Audit Office report says action is needed to address deficit accumulated under Tory-era policy Almost half of councils in England risk falling into bankruptcy without action to address a £4.6bn deficit amassed under a Conservative-era…

FDA, which vaccine skeptic RFK Jr oversees, made the announcement with no explanation or new date

A pay crisis in GP surgeries is undermining government ambitions to move more care into the community, with a third of nursing staff missing out on a pay rise

Levels of PFAS chemicals found in sludge destined for British land would not be considered safe for allotments * Where are the UK’s ‘forever chemical’ hotspots? * Industry using ‘tobacco playbook’ to fend off ‘forever chemicals’ regulation * The…

We fell in love with the power and speed that fossil fuels brought us. But the price being paid in California, and around the world, has become too high Zero per cent contained. In layperson’s terms, that means “out of control and burning at will”. It’s…

Thomas Kingston, son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, had been prescribed SSRIs A coroner has issued a warning about the effects of antidepressants prescribed by a Buckingham Palace doctor to the son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of…

Call for abstracts opening this Winter

No, but it is finding it harder and harder to cope with 'normal' winter pressures. Plus flu might still have a nasty kicker in store this winter.

The NHS is set to offer Mounjaro to 3.4m people to tackle obesity.

Contamination thought to stem from the heavy application of pesticides containing TFA, a type of PFAS Mineral water from several European nations has been found for the first time to be contaminated with TFA, a type of PFAS “forever chemical” that is a…

Average user generates greenhouse gases equal to driving an extra 123 miles in gas-powered car a year, data shows TikTok’s annual carbon footprint is probably larger than that of Greece, according to a new analysis of the social media platform’s…

It is one of the world’s most dangerous materials, and global leaders are meeting in South Korea to thrash out a treaty to curb its effects This week, world leaders are gathering in Busan, South Korea, to hammer out a global plastics treaty to try to…

Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences A leading scientist at the University of Oxford has resigned from the UK’s national academy of sciences over concerns about Elon Musk’s…

Gut microbes are known to modulate stress responsivity and behavior. Tofani et al. demonstrate that such modulations occur via the circadian system. The oscillations in gut microbiota composition regu...

We are calling for an industry levy to help make food healthier.

It’s an often cited statistic that if healthcare was a country, it would be the fifth largest carbon emitter. At The BMJ we want to change that, and move healthcare towards a more sustainable future. ...