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“Doctors ask me to feed my kids—but how?” The Russia-Ukraine war hits Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Why are there shortages of HRT and other drugs in the UK?

Unborn in the USA: what happened and what’s next for Roe v Wade and abortion rights?

Implementing Ockenden: What next for NHS maternity services?

Hundreds of patient data breaches are left unpunished

How Hong Kong’s vaccination missteps led to the world’s highest covid-19 death rate

From Ukraine to remote robotics: how next generation technology is transforming surgery

Ukraine’s private clinics step into the breach of a targeted health system

Ukraine: the British doctors who have travelled to a war zone to help

Covid-19: What is the evidence for the antiviral Paxlovid?

The BMJ Interview: WHO chief scientist optimistic for a pan-coronavirus vaccine in two years

Medical students escape war torn Ukraine but face limbo

Covid-19: What went wrong after initial success in Laos?

Covid-19: Is the US compensation scheme for vaccine injuries fit for purpose?

Why the world has no universal biosafety standards

Covid-19: What is the evidence for the antiviral molnupiravir?

Targeting healthcare in war: a tragic strategy that humanity must disown

Rahul Gupta on being in charge of “one of the worst health crises in America”

Poland’s buckling healthcare system nevertheless welcomes Ukraine refugees with open arms

How Japan survived covid-19

The world’s refugees remain last in line for covid-19 vaccines

Why hospital bombings remain difficult to prosecute as war crimes

Airborne transmission: Are CO,2, monitors a long term solution or “pandemic hack?”

Russia’s war in Ukraine is killing cancer care in both countries

Northern Ireland’s surgeons force action on hospital reform

Pakistan remains polio free—despite covid-19, the Afghan conflict, and a waning global eradication effort

Formula milk companies push allergy products despite flawed evidence

The public finance cost of covid-19

Elections loom large in France’s pandemic policies

Solving retention to support workforce recovery post-pandemic

Pandemic panic and indiscriminate prescriptions drive India’s antimicrobial resistance

UK testing was “a shambles” so why hasn’t the government learnt from its mistakes, asks Paul Nurse

The growing health crisis on the world’s most perilous migrant crossing

How covid-19 has exposed the weaknesses in rural healthcare

The real reason that new UK medical schools are focusing on international students

What Prince Charles tells us about complementary medicine—an essay

Ten things you need to know about the Health and Care Bill

Refugee housing in India reaches healthcare crisis point

Covid-19: What do we know about omicron sublineages?

Data and distrust hamper Russia’s vaccination programme

Covid-19: WHO efforts to bring vaccine manufacturing to Africa are undermined by the drug industry, documents show

What do we know about covid vaccines and preventing transmission?

Planning the healthcare workforce: how many GPs do we need?

The BMJ Interview: Peter Piot

Why doctors have a moral imperative to prescribe medical cannabis

How New Zealand’s covid-19 strategy failed the Māori

Covid-19: How Europe is approaching long covid

Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong

The BMJ appeal 2021-22: “Doctors must raise their voices to advocate for those in Afghanistan”

The BMJ Interview: Rachel Levine on the greatest challenges in US health

How covid-19 vaccines exposed India’s adverse events reporting system

Why asylum seekers deserve better healthcare, and how we can give it

The MSF workers dealing with mass casualty incidents in Afghanistan

How Yemen’s healthcare has been destroyed

What now for Sweden and covid-19?

Covid-19: The significance of India’s emerging “hybrid immunity”

Christmas 2021: Just a smidge, or a bridge too far? Slang use in the ICU

Christmas 2021: Injections of hope—supporting participants in clinical trials

Christmas 2021: head injuries in nursery rhyme characters

The BMJ, appeal 2021-22: “We can’t turn women away”—providing maternity care under pressure in Afghanistan

Christmas 2021: The holly and the ivy: a festive platter of plant hazards

The BMJ Interview: in conversation with Fiona Godlee

Christmas 2021: The end of the pandemic will not be televised

Christmas 2021: Building utopia from disaster: could the pandemic show a way to better healthcare? An essay by Agnes Arnold-Forster

Christmas 2021: Listening to illness: hearing gout through music

Christmas 2021: Biased Outcome reporting Guidelines for Underwhelming Studies (BOGUS) statement and checklist

Moosa Qureshi: My battle with the government over transparency and covid-19 pandemic preparedness

Covid-19: Whatever happened to the Novavax vaccine?

The US opened up access to health records—how do patients use them?

The BMJ appeal 2021-22: MSF is working to ensure the people of Afghanistan have access to healthcare

The BMJ, appeal 2021-22: MSF is working to ensure the people of Afghanistan have access to healthcare

What happened to our national emergency stockpiles?

Could rural China’s healthcare deal with covid-19?

Headlines play down the gravity of covid-19 in children

Covid-19: Why China is sticking to “zero tolerance” public health measures

mRNA vaccines: hope beneath the hype

Covid-19: What next for the Valneva vaccine?

India’s LGBTQ+ community continues to face healthcare barriers

Fake covid vaccines boost the black market for counterfeit medicines

Persecution and a pandemic: delivering maternal healthcare to the Rohingya

After covid, is the future of drug and alcohol services digital?

Afghanistan’s doctors urge world to put politics and prejudice aside to save its healthcare

WHO in its present form is not fit for purpose—an essay by Anthony Costello

Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial

Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial

The doctors getting arrested for climate change: a professional duty?

Covid-19: global vaccine production is a mess and shortages are down to more than just hoarding

India’s army of unrecognised, unpaid female health workers

Covid-19’s rebel scientists: has iSAGE been a success?

Creating more sustainable practice: the NHS clinical teams innovating for a greener future

Covid-19: Why Africa’s pandemic is different

Black and Asian doctors still face discrimination when applying for jobs in the NHS

Who should pay for social care and how?

Myanmar doctors are under fire from the military and covid-19

How to achieve a net zero carbon NHS during a pandemic

A sustainable, inclusive, and resilient global recovery

Covid-19: Why the Balkans’ vaccine rollout lags behind most of Europe

The BMJ Awards 2021: Outstanding contribution to health

The BMJ Awards 2021: Research paper of the year

The BMJ Awards 2021: Special recognition award for science communication