This article by Sara Raza and colleagues (BMJ 2025;391:e086300; doi:10.1136/bmj-2025-086300, 10 October 2025) mentioned unintended pregnancies associated with […]

The health impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly evident in Brazil. The country’s vast territorial and social […]

Scientists have pinpointed a “Big Bang” moment in bowel cancer—when cells first evade the immune system. This early […]

The climate crisis—remember that? I appreciate that our attention is being distracted elsewhere, but our greatest existential threat, […]

Scientists have discovered a surprising benefit of the acne drug doxycycline: it may lower the risk of schizophrenia. […]

Novo Nordisk’s oral semaglutide 25 mg achieved up to 16.6% weight loss in a landmark study, rivaling injectable […]

Climate and conflict seriously threaten human health.123 From 1995 to 2015, more than 10 million child deaths were […]

In October the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change reported that between 2012 and 2021 an average […]

The National Institute for Health and Care Research’s summary of Stevens et al’s study highlights the features of […]

bmj;391/nov05_1/r2266/FAF1faGordon was born into a medical family: his father held senior surgical posts in Darlington and Birkenhead, and […]