Declining US drug overdose deaths show that public health approaches work The US overdose crisis contributed to over 100 000 deaths in 2023.1 The 22% decrease in overdose deaths between August 2023 ...

Alistair Rennie was born on the southside of Glasgow. He attended the local primary and secondary schools, where he did well. He went on to Glasgow University to study medicine but also continued with ...

Allison John and Rocky When Allison John was 13 and watching the science programme Tomorrow’s World , a segment on gene therapy came up. This was cutting edge stuff in the early 1990s and John had ...

The UK was “navigating a middle path” between the US and Europe when it came to integrating artificial intelligence into healthcare and regulating its use, Dominic Cushnan, deputy director for AI at ...

First generation cephalosporins (Cefadroxil, Cefalexin, Cefazolin, and Cefradine) can now be used as first line treatments in the UK after an update from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).1 The ...

Many of us working in healthcare also experience “eco-anxiety,”1 a type of moral injury heightened by the dissonance and illogicality of delivering healthcare in a vacuum. Despite the NHS net zero ...

The BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee in England has voted to go into dispute with the government over a lack of progress in progressing non-pay elements of their 2024 pay deal. The dispute between ...

The number of targets for the NHS in England are to be halved in the coming financial year, from 32 to 18, in an attempt to focus on reducing waiting times. NHS England’s plans have had a mixed ...

Lifesaving services that rely on money from the US government have shut their doors and laid off staff after President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a freeze on foreign aid, agencies ...

More than 8000 US government websites were taken down last week after all government departments and agencies were ordered to on Wednesday 29 January to “end all agency programs that use taxpayer ...

Confronting poor behaviour from someone you work with can seem difficult but there are ways to respond, Abi Rimmer hears Rakesh Patel, professor of medical education and head of the bachelor of ...

What you need to know ### BMJ Learning To obtain accredited continuous professional development points, subscribers to BMJ Learning can complete the full module at The module contains seven ...