Research suggests the drugs have potential for prevention and harm reduction in substance use disorders, writes Ziyad Al-Aly People taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists often ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Much is made of how large language models (LLMs) can pass medical licensing exams with ...

A bill promising to prioritise UK trained medical graduates for training places has become law. However, doctors’ leaders say questions remain over international medical graduates (IMGs) and the ...

As public health officials warn about rising emissions from urban wood burning, a BMJ investigation finds that just under a third of councils in high use areas have faced pressure from the stove ...

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order aiming to increase domestic production of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate, sold as Roundup.1 Trump’s 18 February order comes under a ...

As a young missionary doctor Bill Foege was sent with his wife and young son to eastern Nigeria: it was 1966 and the family ...

Funding uncertainty could weaken the UK’s higher education sector when it’s already under considerable strain, write Mishal S Khan and colleagues The UK health research funding landscape has changed ...

A woman in her 20s presented with a three month history of persistent erythematous patches on both thighs. Examination ...

When the powers that be at King’s College Hospital told neurosurgeon Charles Polkey that it had decided to name a ward after him he was initially reluctant to accept the honour. He only relented after ...

Clinical trials and equitable care pathways are needed to build on early evidence of benefit Substance use disorders (SUDs) are common and burdensome for patients, families, and health systems,12 yet ...

Consultants have urged unions and regulators to protect their freedom of speech after high profile cases of doctors facing regulatory action. At the annual BMA consultants conference this week (4 ...

Corridor care has been officially defined by NHS England as patients spending “at least 45 minutes” in a clinically inappropriate area, as part of new measures to tackle the crisis. It has now written ...