A doctor checks for the eye disease Trachoma in the Pays Dogon, Mali, West Africa
#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
People giving talk
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
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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
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A nurse weighing a patient
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
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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
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NHS ward
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
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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
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
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US border control inspect a van with a sniffer dog
"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
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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/...
In a fairy tale castle, a princess leans down to kiss her prince. Roses climb the walls and a peacock and treasure chest are seen in the foreground.
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
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A death cafe
"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
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"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
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Snow White
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
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Coaching on an intubation procedure
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
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