#Trachoma Eliminating leading cause of infectious blindness needs renewed strategies & global commitment @bmj.com Editorial by Esmael Habtamu, Amany Elhabashy, Matthew J Burton @lshtm.bsky.social #GlobalHealth #EndTrachoma #NTDs #Ophthalmology #GlobalEyecare #HealthEquity www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Medical brain drain: source LMICs as well as destination HICs should act to stem flow. For example, #Nigeria has fledgling policy that seeks agreements with HICs to invest in its healthcare. Free access bmj.com/content/390/... @bmj.com By Oladotun V Olalusi et al #BMJEditorial #GlobalHealth

The corporate practices of arms companies have direct implications for human and #PlanetaryHealth Our NEW @bmj.com series applies a commercial determinants of health framework to the arms industry Read here: www.bmj.com/collections/...

The arms industry deserves scrutiny at a time when defence and military spending threatens health Read this editorial introducing our new series on the arms trade and health www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1794

No universal health coverage without #nurses #BMJEditorial bmj.com/content/390/... @bmj.com @howardcatton.bsky.social @who.int #SoWN2025 #SoWN #nursing

Lived experience: from intention to global action. It is indisputable that people should have a say in the healthcare decisions that affect them. It's time to see lived experience as expertise, and make inclusive engagement business as usual, says this Editorial www.bmj.com/content/390/...

We must fill the void in global #HIV #AIDS care without #PEPFAR - with renewed focus on our collective goal to bring HIV/AIDS under control by 2030, write ‪ @linda-gailb.bsky.social et al @bmj.com @iasociety.bsky.social #HIVScience #IAS2025 bmj.com/content/390/...

Meaningful engagement with patients, relatives, carers, and community members about health policy, research, and services that affect them is an ethical imperative. Read the new BMJ collection with @who.int on the power of lived experience as expertise www.bmj.com/collections/...

"It's been a missing piece that's needed to make health respond to what patients really need." Sophia Walker on the value of lived experience expertise. 👀 Look out for our New BMJ collection "Lived experience as expertise" launching on bmj.com on 8 July

#BMJCommission calls for Race and Health Observatory to become UK-wide Network for #NHS #Equity, taking on #WRES & assess all policies for #inequity #racism #sexism bmj.com/content/390/... @katewomersley.com ‪@ritaissa.bsky.social‬ @leahhazard.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/390/... @bmj.com

Focusing solely on achieving weight loss for people with a high body mass index may do more harm than good, argue experts. Weight alone might not give an adequate picture of someone’s health, they say www.bmj.com/content/389/...

NEW #BMJCommission report: Unethical, unhealthy & costly #Racism & #sexism are "alarmingly normalised" in the #NHS The evidence, & policies needed, are clear. Leaders must act now @katewomersley.com ‪@ritaissa.bsky.social @leahhazard.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/390/... #BMJCommission @bmj.com

Despite the NHS being founded on the principle of equitable treatment, discrimination remains rife. The NHS must tackle #racism and #sexism for patients, staff, and society www.bmj.com/content/390/... @katewomersley.com ‪@ritaissa.bsky.social @leahhazard.bsky.social @yvc58.bsky.social

NHS must tackle #racism & #sexism for patients, staff & society. Evidence & policy options are clear; we need commitment & action. By JS Bamrah @katewomersley.com Chaand Nagpaul ‪@yvc58.bsky.social‬ @ritaissa.bsky.social @leahhazard.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/390/... #BMJCommission @bmj.com

Beyond body mass index: rethinking doctors’ advice for weight loss. Doctors should provide quality, evidence based care reflecting individual preferences and needs, regardless of weight, write @drjuanfranco.bsky.social ‪ @emmagram.bsky.social & colleagues #BMI @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...

MPs pass assisted dying bill 314 to 219 - "almost certain to become law" Bill will now be scrutinised by Lords www.bmj.com/content/389/... @bmj.com #AssistedDyingBill #AssistedDying

What to do about #dengue #BMJEditorial By Claudia Codeço, Celina Turchi Martelli, Patricia Brasil, Marilia Sá Carvalho www.bmj.com/content/389/... @bmj.com @oficialfiocruz.bsky.social

Read and comment here www.bmj.com/content/388/... @bmj.com

After #USAID: what now for aid and Africa? We "have an unprecedented opportunity to question models that do not strengthen health systems, do not improve population health, or create dependency" bmj.com/content/388/... @bmj.com By @ckyobutungi.bsky.social Ebere Okereke @seyeabimbola.bsky.social

After USAID: what now for aid and Africa? Seize this opportunity to reframe aid and centre local health needs www.bmj.com/content/388/... @bmj.com Editorial by @ckyobutungi.bsky.social Ebere Okereke and @seyeabimbola.bsky.social

Can WHO’s new trials guidance challenge a lack of inclusivity in research?

Avoiding a new US “war on drugs” #BMJEditorial @bmj.com Despite decreases in overdose deaths in the US there are indications of a return to enforcement and criminalisation as responses that are not supported in evidence to reduce drug harms #fentanyl www.bmj.com/content/388/...

"A law enforcement driven response to drug taking and overdoses is ineffective and exacerbates existing health and social inequities in minoritised communities." Declining US drug overdose deaths show that public health approaches work, say Vincent Ramos and colleagues www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Thanks @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... True: @bmj.com “strives to represent all voices.” the BMJ has also said it supports legalised doctor assisted dying with safeguards. Decades of international evidence should inform implementation www.bmj.com/content/374/...

What if love was as certain an aspect of the human condition as death and taxes? In this Editor's Choice, Tasnime Osama and @rich-hurley.bsky.social discuss how these three forces shape our health, lives, and world #ChristmasBMJ www.bmj.com/content/387/...

"There’s a need for tea, cake, and conversations about death." Susan Bewley talks about hosting a death cafe and how musing on death has added more pleasure to her life #ChristmasBMJ www.bmj.com/content/387/...

"We must remember our human obligation to care—there as well as here—in a world split between peace and violence, privilege and deprivation." Don’t turn away from the suffering in the world, write Fares Alahdab and @vmontori.bsky.social #ChristmasBMJ www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Disney princesses face serious health risks, warn experts. Disney must consider ways to improve princesses’ wellbeing, including mindfulness, training on cohabitation with animals, and personal protection measures against toxic particles #ChristmasBMJ www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Athletes and musicians often practice just before they're about to perform. Yet in medicine, warm-up is rare to non-existent. This study finds “just-in-time” training could improve clinical outcomes, particularly among inexperienced doctors #ChristmasBMJ www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Beep beep! Which occupations are associated with the lowest risk of death from Alzheimer's disease? Check out our analysis in @bmj.com Christmas Issue with some interactive graphics to explore links between Alzheimer's and navigational jobs 🚕🚑✈️🚢🚌 www.bmj.com/content/387/...

"Our current economic system is clearly willing to sabotage planetary and human health in pursuit of profit, capital accumulation, and economic growth." Degrowth proposes a new logic for the global economy #ChristmasBMJ www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Thanks Hank Wangford (aka Dr Sam Hutt) for playing your new song "#NHS Our Previous Thing (Lub Dup)" at tonight's @bmj.com Xmas party! Read all about it in the forthcoming #ChristmasBMJ ... And download Hank's song to get it to Christmas No 1! open.spotify.com/track/69JWHp...

Thanks Hank Wangford (aka Dr Sam Hutt) for playing your new song "#NHS Our Previous Thing (Lub Dup)" at tonight's @bmj.com Xmas party! Read all about it in the forthcoming #ChristmasBMJ ... And download Hank's song to get it to Christmas No 1! open.spotify.com/track/69JWHp...

International evidence should inform debates to ensure law making and implementation maximise both safety and access if Leadbeater's #AssistedDying bill passes #BMJEditorial @bmj.com bmj.com/content/387/...

MPs have voted for a historic bill that could change the law on assisted dying in England and Wales. Around 54% of MPs voted for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-25 after an often emotionally charged five hour debate in the House of Commons www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Fragile promise of psychedelics in psychiatry doi.org/10.1136/bmj-... New #BMJAnalysis Cédric Lemarchand and colleagues highlight weaknesses in the evidence on efficacy and safety of hallucinogens and question the use of expedited regulatory pathways

Palliative medicine doctors in the UK have a plurality of views on #AssistedDying, but you wouldn’t know it bmj.com/content/387/... @bmj.com Sam H Ahmedzai, Samuel Fingas & anonymous colleagues write

G20 and the #globalsouth: opportunities for global health #Editorial www.bmj.com/content/387/... @bmj.com

Surgical adverse events in the US. After all these years, why has patient safety not improved? #Editorial doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... @bmj.com

Conscientious objection and #AssistedDying. www.bmj.com/content/387/... “Some doctors take a reasonable view that even referring somebody is involvement and makes them complicit [in something they consider immoral]” Mary Neal, reader in law, University of Strathclyde @bmj.com

Palliative medicine doctors in the UK have a plurality of views on #AssistedDying, but you wouldn’t know it bmj.com/content/387/... @bmj.com Sam H Ahmedzai, Samuel Fingas & anonymous colleagues write

In our paper, part of the new BMJ collection with The Health Foundation, we discuss why #Foresight approaches are key to preparedness for future health shocks and must be integrated in policy making bmj.com/content/387/... @kityates.bsky.social @duncanrobertson.bsky.social

International evidence should inform debates to ensure law making and implementation maximise both safety and access if Leadbeater's #AssistedDying bill passes #BMJEditorial @bmj.com bmj.com/content/387/...