Despite growing public interest in death, support for end-of-life care and bereavement remains inadequate. We urgently need a community centred, public health approach to the social processes of dying ...

Getting aid to the millions facing “mass starvation” in Sudan’s brutal and escalating civil war is a top priority for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the subject of this year’s BMJ appeal.

With vaccination rates against respiratory illnesses continuing to decline among healthcare staff, Emma Wilkinson examines what’s behind the trend and efforts to tackle it Flu hit early this year, and ...

Announcing investments in a five year trial ­­­­­­of tirzepatide (a glucagon-like peptide-1 analogue weight loss drug), health secretary Wes Streeting showed support for prioritising patients able to ...

Research funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will have to be made publicly available without a period of delay,1 under the agency’s new public access policy. The policy, which is open ...

The BMJ ’s 2024-25 appeal is supporting the work of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in conflict zones all over the world. Elisabeth Mahase takes a closer look at what the IRC is doing Sudan, ...

The government has released preliminary details of what it wants to include in the new contract for GPs in England, including adding an extra £889m to the existing budget for general practice.

Lucy Letby’s new lawyers are asking the Court of Appeal to immediately review all her convictions after the lead expert witness for the prosecution “changed his mind” about the cause of death for ...

GPs in Wales have delivered a resounding rejection of the proposed General Medical Services (GMS) contract from the Welsh government. In a BMA ballot of its members in Wales, almost all (98.7% or 1079 ...

In 2023, a disturbing milestone was reached: six out of nine planetary boundaries were crossed, signalling an unprecedented threat to Earth's stability.1 Simultaneously, the world grappled with a ...

The US has reported its first severe case of H5N1 avian influenza in a patient who has been admitted to hospital in Louisiana, bringing the total number of human cases of H5 bird flu in the country to ...

Rich knowledge and practices of community and family based care for dying people in formerly colonised countries should inform a reimagination of palliative care globally, say Christian R Ntizimira ...