• The UK is still officially the best place in the world to die, having once again topped the rankings in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Quality of Death Index. In […]
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The BMJ Today: China, philanthropy, statistics, Minerva, and what your patient is thinking
• In his acclaimed weekly blog, Richard Lehman highlights a cluster of articles on healthcare in China. Acute kidney injury seems to be an emerging problem in China as many traditional herbal […]
The BMJ Today: Global health, socioeconomic differences, and other matters
• To achieve universal health coverage by 2030, as required by UN Sustainable Development Goals, primary care must be strengthened in middle and low income countries. Educational resources and decision […]
The BMJ Today: The diesel scandal and breast cancer
• Paul Wilkinson and Andy Haines call for consequences to the Volkswagen diesel scandal in an editorial. Perhaps the lesson from the Volkswagen episode is not just whether manufacturers will comply with […]
The BMJ Today: The NHS, dietary guidelines, and diabetes drugs
• The NHS keeps dominating headlines, with bad news and some good news. The bad news is the deficit of almost a billion pounds, which NHS hospital trusts in England have run […]
The BMJ Today: Hunt says BMA is being “irresponsible”
• Yes, you read that headline correctly—Jeremy Hunt is accusing doctors of being irresponsible over their handling of the new contract for junior doctors. As Gareth Iacobucci reports, the health secretary […]
The BMJ Today: Don’t call me Citler
• 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 […]
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, […]