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Flour fortification with folic acid

A major step forward for UK public health In November 2024, the UK government announced legislation mandating folic acid fortification of non-wholemeal wheat flour, effective by the end of 2026. This landmark policy will reduce neural tube defects (NTDs), serious birth defects affecting brain and spinal cord development that can ...

2026-04-09T13:23:56+01:0010 June 2025|Corporate announcement, Our impact|

Why an intersectional gender approach matters for social innovations in health 🌍

Health challenges go beyond clinical interventions—social, cultural, and political factors deeply influence outcomes. Recognising how gender intersects with socio-economic factors is crucial for achieving health equity.   The latest collection in BMJ Innovations, produced in partnership with TDR, explores innovations to ensure interventions are inclusive and responsive to marginalised groups ...

BMJ Future Health and Learner+ partner to transform continuing professional development for health professionals

Helping health professionals turn everyday learning into accredited continuing professional development reflections BMJ Group's comprehensive education programme, BMJ Future Health, has partnered with Learner+, the UK's first smart reflective platform, to transform continuing professional development (CPD) for health professionals. This collaboration makes capturing and converting everyday learning into structured CPD ...

2025-05-09T10:05:19+01:009 May 2025|Corporate announcement, Partnership|

China’s malaria-free status offers crucial lessons for other areas

Special BMJ collection explores China's path to elimination and how it may inform strategies elsewhere, but experts warn that funding declines would reverse hard won gains China’s success in achieving malaria-free status in 2021 offers crucial lessons for the global malaria fight, say experts in a special collection of articles published by The ...

BMJ Investigations Unit empowers councils to challenge fast food planning decisions

An exclusive BMJ investigation has uncovered how McDonald’s is systematically undermining councils’ efforts to block new outlets—particularly in deprived areas of England, where rates of childhood obesity are alarmingly high. Based on freedom of information requests to the Planning Inspectorate, The BMJ found that McDonald’s has lodged 14 planning ...

2026-04-09T13:23:59+01:0014 April 2025|Corporate announcement, Our impact|

BMJ Group expands open access reach with new Read and Publish agreements

Global partnerships expand opportunities for researchers to maximise the impact of their work April 2025 — Global healthcare knowledge provider, BMJ Group, is expanding its open access reach by introducing new and renewed Read and Publish agreements for 2025, further reinforcing its ongoing support for enhancing global knowledge sharing. ...

openRxiv launch to sustain and expand preprint sharing in life and health sciences

Davis, California, 11 March, 2025–openRxiv has officially launched as an independent nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openRxiv ensures that researchers worldwide can continue to share discoveries rapidly and openly. With a researcher-led governance model, openRxiv strengthens the foundation of ...

2025-03-11T15:30:49+00:0011 March 2025|Corporate announcement, Launch, Our impact, Partnership|
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