China cracks down on microplastics and forever chemicals with new law

Trump’s psychedelic executive order: president expands access to psychoactive drugs

Mpox in Pakistan: 11 dead in new outbreak

Jury orders Abbott to pay $70m damages over formula milk

Trump’s “obsession” with pharma forced UK into controversial “damage limitation” drug deal, former ambassador says buff.ly/hjPbnNu

New exam finds one third of Brazilian final year medical students below proficiency buff.ly/JiPpmF6

Donald Trump’s mental health: are health professionals’ media speculations ethical or dangerous? buff.ly/0D4H4UW

TikTok, Meta, and Roblox deny their products are addictive for children as UK government announces school smartphone ban www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Tobacco and Vapes Bill: UK ban on smoking by anyone born after 2008 is passed buff.ly/aafjwZL

Longer pollen season and rise in heat related deaths in Europe because of climate change www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Death of two blood plasma donors leads to Canadian probe of Spanish pharma giant buff.ly/3zPAsfe

RIP Ruth. One of the beat and loveliest people in the profession, community and ever. I’ll miss you.

Trump nominates former deputy surgeon general to head CDC buff.ly/2QBg7Pw

Cuba accuses US of targeting its medical missions

A Baltimore-based thread to explain one singular, overriding reason why American journalism is incapable of compassing and explaining the astonishing misrule and the implosion of all our governing norms. To wit: A few decades ago, as a police reporter covering the Baltimore department, a new...

HIV: “At least” 329 children infected in Pakistan province, as medical association blames negligence

Palantir: MPs call for “shameful” NHS data deal to be scrapped buff.ly/jqpoYwF

Mystery disease leaves five dead in Burundi, with investigations ongoing buff.ly/sZ87Z1S

Zohran Mamdani: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."

Yemen: Cholera and measles cases surge as “world’s worst” humanitarian crisis deepens buff.ly/A2gSW7a

My latest in the @bmj.com on needing to learn the lessons from the COVID Inquiry and implement its recommendations www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Gaza ceasefire is failing amid “extreme” deprivation and death, aid agencies warn www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Microplastics: US launches $144m campaign to study impact and removal from human body

This is wild: Nigerian erotica writers using temporary WhatsApp groups to publish and get around strict religious censors

Can the traditional British tabloid survive the digital age? FT

Cancer: Genetic pre-chemotherapy test is improved to help people of African ancestry www.bmj.com/content/393/...

A major new US report has called for more children to be included in clinical research. It comes at a particularly sensitive time for children and medicine in America, as Jennifer Lutz reports.

Burundi investigates illness that has caused five deaths buff.ly/liETMRB

China To Join WHO Executive Board – Among The Countries To Screen Candidates For Next Director General - Health Policy Watch buff.ly/ZdCfUIj

New US cholesterol guideline recommends earlier screening and statin treatment buff.ly/lURrgVN

Genetic testing: Australia bans life insurers from discriminating against applicants

Drone strike on Sudan hospital kills 10 buff.ly/pJ50Eb9

Iran war: Attacks near nuclear sites pose “alarming” health risks, WHO warns buff.ly/7grMweM

Long covid’s £8bn bill: OECD report warns pandemic continues to cast a “long shadow” www.bmj.com/content/393/...

How Trump’s war with Iran is threatening medical supply chains buff.ly/icdeI5i

Data used to justify the expansion of controversial software in the NHS is flawed, experts say, and the pilot trust’s innovation adviser worked directly for Palantir buff.ly/XC7I4E2

Shisha tobacco’s availability is rising. Why does UK smoking policy fail to tackle it?

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real buff.ly/whbuOQP Wild, wild story by @stokel

Fascinating, if depressing, insight/take from Nate Silver. buff.ly/wluJPU0

As Japan warms, cherry blossom displays are fading buff.ly/3rbHgEx

Is young people’s mental health worse than in the past?

HIV/AIDS: MSF condemns Gilead for refusing to sell it lenacapavir

Measles: 38 children dead in Bangladesh outbreak www.bmj.com/content/393/...

This www.ft.com/content/d76c... How we gave up on forgiveness

Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone apnews.com/article/cia-...

New piece in @bmj.com by @kentbuse.bsky.social , @martinmckee.bsky.social and me on safeguarding evidence from political pressure - with 5 clear recommendations. Standing with science means defending the systems that allow science to function. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Israel Strikes Tehran Pharmaceutical Plant, Claiming Military Link

Shocking. Expansion of US rules means that a programme with US funding can have it withdrawn at any time by the Trump administration if, essentially, any part of that country or organisation--even if nothing to do with the programme funded--does anything deemed to be aiding or promoting abortion.

The wellness inspired rise of continuous glucose monitors for people without diabetes, including those with metabolic disorders

Countries are deadlocked over a global plan to quickly develop and fairly distribute new vaccines during a future pandemic, risking delayed access to life-saving new medicines worldwide.