• Advice on alcohol for pregnant women is the topic of this latest head to head debate. Mary Mather and Kate Wiles argue that current advice to pregnant women is contradictory and […]
Editors at large
Tessa Richards: “Millennials” seek to reshape health
What better place to debate how emerging technologies are transforming healthcare than the Silicon Valley? Bathed in sunshine, the Stanford University campus is a magnet for people with the vision […]
BMJ Today: Warriors and worriers
Nobel warriors: The story behind this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine is one of meticulous and methodical laboratory toil that led to the discovery of two important drug […]
The BMJ Today: When is humane discretion in the NHS an offence?
• While Jeremy Hunt prepares to tell the Tory party conference about his plans for a seven day NHS, one doctor suggests there are more immediate problems that he should […]
The BMJ Today: The active role clinicians can play in tackling society’s inequalities
Major update to HIV treatment guidance The World Health Organisation has released guidance which would dramatically affect the threshold at which patients with HIV are offered antiretroviral medication. At present, […]
The BMJ Today: Spotlight on Liam Smeeth, professional misconduct, and improving research publication
• Our latest BMJ Confidential casts the spotlight on Liam Smeeth, a GP and professor of clinical epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He says […]
BMJ Today: Junior doctors’ contract, cardiac rehabilitation, and working for the US marines
• The junior doctors’ contract: how did we get into this mess? With junior doctors about to vote on whether to strike over government plans to impose a new contract on […]
The BMJ Today: Practising what you preach, corporal punishment, and scientific misconduct
• Walking the walk? Drug and device manufacturers have been keen to publicise their rhetoric to share clinical trial data, but is it happening in practice? Mayo-Wilson and colleagues found […]
The BMJ Today: Diagnosing miscarriage and IBS
• When is it safe to diagnose a miscarriage? There has been some debate about miscarriage diagnostic criteria over past years, with evidence emerging in 2011 that criteria at the […]
The BMJ Today: The FDA, drug addicts, and standing with junior doctors
• The FDA’s new clothes Two new research papers (here and here) and a linked editorial take a detailed look at the FDA’s regulatory process. They present concerns that the […]