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The BMJ Today: E-reefers and cannabis gummi bears
Everybody must get stoned! Sang Bob Dylan back in the lazy hazy days of the mid 1960s. In that respect, it was clear from walking around Amsterdam last week, where […]
The BMJ Today: The schools of hard knocks?
Schools should teach students not only academic knowledge and cognitive skills, but also the knowledge and skills they will need to promote their own mental and physical health, and successfully […]
The BMJ Today: Smoking, nicotine, e-cigarettes, and corruption
Should smokers be advised to cut down as well as to quit? This is the debate captured in our latest Head to Head article, just published on bmj.com. The cost […]
The BMJ Today: Statins and The BMJ
Even those whose daily diet does not include the pages of the national press could not have missed the furore over The BMJ’s very public correction of an error in […]
The BMJ Today: How to defeat the world’s deadliest animal
“What is the most dangerous animal in the world?” Not an obvious opening line to an Observations article by The BMJ’s regular columnist Douglas Kamerow. However, if you follow his […]
The BMJ Today: Barriers to shared decision making
A research study published online in the journal Cancer has suggested that the rate of invasive cervical cancer in the United States is much higher than had been previously thought. […]
The BMJ Today: Childhood poverty and early health
Spring seems to have finally reached London, and what we’re lacking in lambs The BMJ seems to be making up with newborns, the BMJ baby count so far stands at […]
The BMJ Today: Teenage pregnancy and breastfeeding
Good news from the US—pregnancies, births, and abortions among US teenagers aged 15 to 19 have fallen to historical lows. This news comes from a report by the Guttmacher Institute, […]
The BMJ Today: Late nights with Iain Chalmers
“Tired” pupils aged over 16 at a private school in Surrey are to start lessons at 1.30pm. The school’s headteacher Guy Holloway says the move is based on research by […]