This third article in a seven part series presents the Core GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach to deciding whether to rate down certainty of evidence ...

Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale” was the rallying cry of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), published in 2008.1 It remains appropriate to the World Health ...

An alliance of regional African leadership and oversight of resource extraction is essential to promote stability, write Faraan O Rahim and coauthors On 25 April 2025, foreign ministers from ...

Iran’s medical training system is facing a rash of suicides, depression, and burnout, with increasing numbers of newly trained physicians leaving the country. Mohammad Saeed Gharaati Jahromi reports ...

Outpatient care has been overlooked in policy and planning. The upcoming 10 year plan for health is an opportunity to rethink and reform the system, writes Theresa Barnes . Every day, I see patients ...

From July 2010, The BMJ (along with other journals that are members of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) has asked authors of research papers to use a revised version of the ...

Hospitals are stressful to be in and too often harm patients. Many acute hospital level interventions can be safely provided at home and patients welcome this option, says Tessa Richards I liked ...

The General Medical Council (GMC) has approved 33 courses to teach physician associates (PAs), the first time such degrees have been subject to formal quality assurance by the regulator.1 Three ...

We have made great improvements in treating cancer. I have friends, and probably you do as well, who are still alive with cancers that just a few years ago would have quickly killed them. They have ...

People in the most deprived areas of England are almost twice as likely to be admitted to hospital for infectious disease as those in least deprived areas, a report from the UK Health Security Agency ...

Two years after the start of civil war that has displaced 14 million people and taken tens of thousands of lives,1 Sudan continues to suffer under the complex effects of a humanitarian crisis, ...

Healthcare leaders and campaigners have warned that the withdrawal of ringfenced central funding for England’s maternity services will severely undermine efforts to improve safety. Analysis by the ...