Two hundred and fifty years after liberation from British colonialism, the United States is co-hosting the football World Cup. The US might even win it for the first time—although France, its former a...

Samuel Cross, Karl Claxton, and Andrew Hill argue that diversion of billions of NHS funding to pay more for new drugs under the UK-US trade deal will harm public health and result in thousands of exce...

Public confidence in regulation demands that complaints are handled transparently and judged on evidence alone, write Rubin Minhas , Nick Maynard , Iain Chalmers , and Gene Feder The United Nations ...

The world’s most powerful American, by some estimates, made two important statements this week. First, he urged a de-escalation of the Middle East war.1 Second, he argued that “health cannot be a luxu...

Lifting the two child benefit cap is an important step but will still leave 4.15 million children in poverty, Marmot tells Elisabeth Mahase Michael Marmot, the UK’s leading expert on health equity, ...

If you’re seeking to keep politics out of medicine, good luck with that. It isn’t possible. We’ve previously described the political determinants of health (doi:10.1136/bmj.h81),1 and next we’ll focus...

The Epstein scandal tells us much about how power is acquired, leveraged, and abused. One of the more sobering lessons is the mechanism by which governments are influenced and corrupted. We trust gove...

Deborah Cohen's new book "How the internet hijacked our health" explores the profound impact of the internet on our wellbeing. In this conversation with BMJ Editor, Kamran Abbasi, they discuss the way...

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How do we resolve the great challenges to health and wellbeing? Welcome to a BMJ special issue of resolutions. Our aim is to begin each year with a range of short essays on one of these great challeng...

Medical community must play its part in ending atrocities In 2000, JAMA published a commentary by Willis and Levy calling for action to ensure recognition of the public health impact of genocide.1 Th...

Peers must listen to frontline healthcare professionals to ensure provisions of the bill reduce unnecessary friction and overmedicalisation while retaining valued safeguards, write Simon Opher and…

Partha Kar, a Royal College of Physicians (RCP) councillor, has said that the college’s lack of a whistleblower policy left him with “no alternative” but to breach its rules and considers its plan to ...