Skip to content
The BMJ
  • Latest
  • Authors
    • Columnists
    • Guest writers
    • Editors at large
    • A to Z
  • Topics
    • NHS
    • US healthcare
    • South Asia
    • China
    • Patient and public perspectives
    • More …

Access thebmj.com - The BMJ logo

Uncategorized

Sally Norton: Open your eyes to obesity

December 4, 2014

We know that we are in the middle of an obesity epidemic—and we know it is really difficult to treat. But it’s nigh on impossible to treat if we don’t […]

More…

Uncategorized0 Comments

Anand Bhopal: Alcohol in society—the search for nuance in a fractious debate

November 5, 2014

Alcohol is a historical part of British culture, and pubs remain central to communities across the country. Yet the same liquor is also responsible for filling A&E departments; absorbing police […]

More…

Uncategorized1 Comment

Bernard Merkel: U-turn on the European Commission’s health portfolio still leaves unfinished business

October 29, 2014

It is not often that an issue about how the European Commission is organised in relation to a specific part of its work on health comes to the top of […]

More…

Uncategorized0 Comments

Sally Norton: Weight loss—help us to help ourselves

October 23, 2014

If I hear one more time that keeping your weight down is all about personal responsibility—”just eat less and exercise more”—I will take a double chocolate, banana, and salted caramel, […]

More…

Uncategorized0 Comments

Richard Graham: Is technology changing the brain—how to interpret and advise on the evidence

October 23, 2014

The recent release of a study by the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, which said that it had found changes in the structure of the brain caused by technology […]

More…

Uncategorized0 Comments

Wilm Quentin: NCDs and the private sector—part of the problem or part of the solution?

October 21, 2014

One of the last sessions of the European Health Forum Gastein aimed to find answers to the question of how to engage the private sector in the prevention and control […]

More…

Uncategorized0 Comments

Kate Adlington: Should the UK move towards greater regulation of doctor-industry relations?

October 20, 2014

International interest in the interaction between physicians and industry has been mounting since the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (PPSA) was passed in the United States in 2012. The first data […]

More…

Uncategorized0 Comments

Carolyn Thomas: My experience of patient peer review

October 16, 2014

I’ve finally hit the “Submit” button on my patient review of a research paper submitted to The BMJ—and in time for its deadline. Hurray! This is the first project of this […]

More…

Uncategorized1 Comment

Ahmed Rashid: Junk food history taking

October 16, 2014

“Listen to the patient and they will tell you the diagnosis.” Widely attributed to Sir William Osler, this quote is often shared with new medical students, and I often find […]

More…

Uncategorized2 Comments

Aser García Rada: Abortion in Spain

October 15, 2014

This year´s Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, celebrated on 28 September, was especially welcomed in Spain. Earlier that week, Spain’s prime minister and leader of […]

More…

Uncategorized0 Comments
  • «Previous page
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • »Next page
  • 49

Comment and opinion from The BMJ's international community of readers, authors, and editors

Access bmj.com
The BMJ logo

Most Read

  • Paul Garner: on his recovery from long covid
  • Peter C Gøtzsche: Prescription drugs are the third…
  • Time to assume that health research is fraudulent…

Categories

  • Author's perspective
  • BMJ Clinical Evidence
  • Brexit
  • China
  • Christmas appeal
  • Climate change
  • Columnists
    • Abraar Karan
    • Andy Cowper
    • Billy Boland
    • Charlotte Squires
    • Chris Ham
    • Daniel Sokol
    • David Kerr
    • David Lock
    • David Oliver
    • Desmond O'Neill
    • Douglas Noble
    • Edzard Ernst
    • From the other side
    • Gerd Gigerenzer
    • Giles Maskell
    • Harlan Krumholz
    • Hilda Bastian
    • Iain Chalmers
    • James Raftery's NICE blogs
    • Jeff Aronson's Words
    • Jim Murray
    • Julian Sheather
    • Julie K Silver
    • Kieran Walsh
    • Liz Wager
    • Margaret McCartney
    • Marge Berer
    • Martin McKee
    • Martin McShane
    • Mary E Black
    • Mary Higgins
    • Matt Morgan
    • Metaphor watch
    • Muir Gray
    • Neal Maskrey
    • Neena Modi
    • Nick Hopkinson
    • Paul Glasziou
    • Penny Campling
    • Peter Brindley
    • Pritpal S Tamber
    • Rachel Clarke
    • Richard Lehman
    • Richard Smith
    • Sandra Lako
    • Sharon Roman
    • Sian Griffiths
    • Siddhartha Yadav
    • Simon Chapman
    • Tara Lamont
    • Tiago Villanueva
    • Tom Jefferson
    • Tracey Koehlmoos
    • William Cayley
  • Covid-19 known unknowns webinars
  • Editors at large
    • Anita Jain
    • Anya de Iongh
    • Birte Twisselmann
    • Carl Heneghan
    • David Payne
    • Domhnall MacAuley
    • Elizabeth Loder
    • Fiona Godlee
    • Georg Röggla
    • Juliet Dobson
    • Paul Simpson
    • Peter Doshi
    • Readers' editor
    • Robin Baddeley
    • Sally Carter
    • Tessa Richards
    • The BMJ today
  • Featured
  • From the archive
  • Global health
    • Global health disruptors
  • Guest writers
    • The King's fund
  • Junior doctors
  • Literature and medicine
  • Medical ethics
  • MSF
  • NHS
  • Open data
  • Partnership in practice
  • Patient and public perspectives
  • People's covid inquiry
  • Richard Lehman's weekly review of medical journals
  • South Asia
  • Students
  • Too much medicine
  • Uncategorized
  • Unreported trial of the week
  • US healthcare
  • Weekly review of medical journals
  • Wellbeing

BMJ CAREERS

Information for Authors

BMJ Opinion provides comment and opinion written by The BMJ's international community of readers, authors, and editors.

We welcome submissions for consideration. Your article should be clear, compelling, and appeal to our international readership of doctors and other health professionals. The best pieces make a single topical point. They are well argued with new insights.

For more information on how to submit, please see our instructions for authors.

  • Contact us
  • Website terms & conditions
  • Privacy policy
  • Revenue sources
  • Home
  • Top

© BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2025. All rights reserved.