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Roe v Wade: How its scrapping will affect women worldwide

Covid-19: What we know about the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron variants

Battle against the mind: the mental health of Ukraine’s soldiers

Balancing the knife: India debates the pros and cons of pushing caesarean sections

The Brexit predictions that came true, those that didn’t—and what we didn’t see coming

What poo tells us: wastewater surveillance comes of age amid covid, monkeypox, and polio

Mindfulness training in schools does not improve children’s mental health

The historical rise of “overdiagnosis”—an essay by Scott Podolsky

“Same tactics, same injuries”: the targeting of healthcare in Syria and Ukraine

Why do NHS hospitals struggle to handle heatwaves?

How hot weather kills: the rising public health dangers of extreme heat

Long covid patients travel abroad for expensive and experimental “blood washing”

The Myanmar health crisis engulfing India’s under-resourced border state

The virtual wards aiming to ease hospital pressures

Rape in war: too much debate, too little medicine

How South East Asia is rebooting medical tourism in a pandemic world

From FDA to MHRA: are drug regulators for hire?

Why medicine must catch up on interprofessional education for a safer NHS

The devastating health consequences of Sri Lanka’s economic collapse

How long does SARS-CoV-2 stay in the body?

Covid-19: How has the pandemic differed across the four UK nations?

Build back better: Indian construction must grapple with extreme heat

Suspended for a single word: why GMC processes need overhaul

Health experts cry foul as food industry targets India’s ripe market

How are vaccines being adapted to meet the changing face of SARS-CoV-2?

The black market for covid-19 antiviral drugs

Covid-19 and mRNA technology are helping Africa fix its vaccine problems

The dentistry crisis “lapping at the doors of primary care”

Covid-19—How Europe’s vaccine donations went tragically wrong

“Doctors ask me to feed my kids—but how?” The Russia-Ukraine war hits Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Why are there shortages of HRT and other drugs in the UK?

Unborn in the USA: what happened and what’s next for Roe v Wade and abortion rights?

Implementing Ockenden: What next for NHS maternity services?

Hundreds of patient data breaches are left unpunished

How Hong Kong’s vaccination missteps led to the world’s highest covid-19 death rate

From Ukraine to remote robotics: how next generation technology is transforming surgery

Ukraine’s private clinics step into the breach of a targeted health system

Ukraine: the British doctors who have travelled to a war zone to help

Covid-19: What is the evidence for the antiviral Paxlovid?

The BMJ Interview: WHO chief scientist optimistic for a pan-coronavirus vaccine in two years

Medical students escape war torn Ukraine but face limbo

Covid-19: What went wrong after initial success in Laos?

Covid-19: Is the US compensation scheme for vaccine injuries fit for purpose?

Why the world has no universal biosafety standards

Covid-19: What is the evidence for the antiviral molnupiravir?

Targeting healthcare in war: a tragic strategy that humanity must disown

Rahul Gupta on being in charge of “one of the worst health crises in America”

Poland’s buckling healthcare system nevertheless welcomes Ukraine refugees with open arms

How Japan survived covid-19

The world’s refugees remain last in line for covid-19 vaccines

Why hospital bombings remain difficult to prosecute as war crimes

Airborne transmission: Are CO,2, monitors a long term solution or “pandemic hack?”

Russia’s war in Ukraine is killing cancer care in both countries

Northern Ireland’s surgeons force action on hospital reform

Pakistan remains polio free—despite covid-19, the Afghan conflict, and a waning global eradication effort

Formula milk companies push allergy products despite flawed evidence

The public finance cost of covid-19

Elections loom large in France’s pandemic policies

Solving retention to support workforce recovery post-pandemic

Pandemic panic and indiscriminate prescriptions drive India’s antimicrobial resistance

UK testing was “a shambles” so why hasn’t the government learnt from its mistakes, asks Paul Nurse

The growing health crisis on the world’s most perilous migrant crossing

How covid-19 has exposed the weaknesses in rural healthcare

The real reason that new UK medical schools are focusing on international students

What Prince Charles tells us about complementary medicine—an essay

Ten things you need to know about the Health and Care Bill

Refugee housing in India reaches healthcare crisis point

Covid-19: What do we know about omicron sublineages?

Data and distrust hamper Russia’s vaccination programme

Covid-19: WHO efforts to bring vaccine manufacturing to Africa are undermined by the drug industry, documents show

What do we know about covid vaccines and preventing transmission?

Planning the healthcare workforce: how many GPs do we need?

The BMJ Interview: Peter Piot

Why doctors have a moral imperative to prescribe medical cannabis

How New Zealand’s covid-19 strategy failed the Māori

Covid-19: How Europe is approaching long covid

Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong

The BMJ appeal 2021-22: “Doctors must raise their voices to advocate for those in Afghanistan”

The BMJ Interview: Rachel Levine on the greatest challenges in US health

How covid-19 vaccines exposed India’s adverse events reporting system

Why asylum seekers deserve better healthcare, and how we can give it

The MSF workers dealing with mass casualty incidents in Afghanistan

How Yemen’s healthcare has been destroyed

What now for Sweden and covid-19?

Covid-19: The significance of India’s emerging “hybrid immunity”

Christmas 2021: Just a smidge, or a bridge too far? Slang use in the ICU

Christmas 2021: Injections of hope—supporting participants in clinical trials

Christmas 2021: head injuries in nursery rhyme characters

The BMJ, appeal 2021-22: “We can’t turn women away”—providing maternity care under pressure in Afghanistan

Christmas 2021: The holly and the ivy: a festive platter of plant hazards

The BMJ Interview: in conversation with Fiona Godlee

Christmas 2021: The end of the pandemic will not be televised

Christmas 2021: Building utopia from disaster: could the pandemic show a way to better healthcare? An essay by Agnes Arnold-Forster

Christmas 2021: Listening to illness: hearing gout through music

Christmas 2021: Biased Outcome reporting Guidelines for Underwhelming Studies (BOGUS) statement and checklist

Moosa Qureshi: My battle with the government over transparency and covid-19 pandemic preparedness

Covid-19: Whatever happened to the Novavax vaccine?

The US opened up access to health records—how do patients use them?

The BMJ appeal 2021-22: MSF is working to ensure the people of Afghanistan have access to healthcare

The BMJ, appeal 2021-22: MSF is working to ensure the people of Afghanistan have access to healthcare