• Thebmj.com at 20—This week marks an important birthday for thebmj.com which has been online for 20 years. Continuing to embrace progress in multimedia, you can read the related editorial […]
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The BMJ Today: More evidence on the harms of overdiagnosis
• More evidence on the harms of over diagnosis: Teppo Järvinen and colleagues argue that evidence for stratifying risk of fracture and subsequent drug therapy to prevent hip fracture is […]
The BMJ Today: How do editors make decisions?
• How do editors make decisions? How can we improve editorial practices and the quality of biomedical publications while promoting greater transparency and trust in the system? These are some […]
The BMJ Today: Healthy behaviours and the power of the WHO
• Campaigners are taking the Dutch state to court over links with the tobacco industry, which is allegedly unlawfully influencing policies on the availability of tobacco products. The fight is […]
The BMJ Today: Crisis and corruption
• Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA’s general practitioners committee, urges UK health ministers to halt a “surreal obsession” with seven day working at a time when the GP workforce is […]
The BMJ Today: Tobacco, tennis, and “unmitigated quackery”
• An investigation by The BMJ into attempts by big tobacco to prevent the introduction of plain packaging of cigarettes has revealed that MPs and peers accepted gifts from the […]
The BMJ Today: Patients let down by end of life care, seven day working, and a letter from Australia
• A new report has found that terminally ill people are enduring painful and distressing deaths through failure by the NHS in England to properly manage care at the end […]
The BMJ Today: Migrants’ health, screening guidelines, and benefits of social media
• Migrants are finding it increasingly difficult to access healthcare, the charity Doctors of the World has warned. The charity, which provides healthcare to vulnerable groups, found that around two […]
The BMJ Today: run, boy, run
Exercise as good as stopping smoking A study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has found that thirty minutes of physical activity six days a week in older […]
The BMJ Today: TripAdvisor, smoking in pregnancy, and CONSORT
• TripAdvisor for fertility clinics? Would a user generated website that scores fertility clinics help people seeking treatment? The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) says it’s not a question […]