Junk food ‘avoids advertising regulation’ with top level UK sports sponsorship

Brands including Cadbury, Walkers, Kellogg’s, and Coca-Cola have more than 90 ongoing partnerships with sporting stars, teams, and organisations Experts say junk food sponsorship of sports should be banned to protect children’s health Junk food firms have more than 90 current sponsorship deals within top UK sports amid growing concerns ...

2025-07-10T09:12:40+00:0010 July 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

Time to see lived experience in healthcare as expertise

New BMJ collection calls for global action to ensure patients, caregivers, and relatives are valued equally to other experts It’s time to see lived experience - knowledge gained by being a patient, caregiver, or relative - as essential expertise, to ensure that healthcare is relevant, responsive, effective, resilient, equitable, and ...

2025-07-08T11:29:59+00:008 July 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

Physician associates provide safe care for diagnosed patients when directly supervised by a doctor

But allowing them to care for patients with undiagnosed conditions under indirect supervision may risk patients’ safety, finds a rapid review Physician associates provide safe and effective care when they work under the direct supervision of doctors and care for patients who have already been diagnosed, or when they undertake ...

2025-07-04T09:14:32+00:004 July 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

Mental health disorders, malaria, and heart disease most affected by covid pandemic

Findings provide a roadmap to help strengthen health systems for future crises Disrupted care during the covid-19 pandemic led to sharp increases in other non-covid causes of illness and death, particularly mental health disorders, malaria in young children, and stroke and heart disease in older adults, finds a study published ...

2025-07-03T11:10:04+00:003 July 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

Racism and sexism are “alarmingly normalised” in the NHS

Evidence of impact of discrimination and inequalities is clear; what is needed now is action from government and NHS institutions, says the BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS Racism and sexism are “alarmingly normalised” within the structures and person-to-person interactions across the NHS, and the NHS has delayed ...

2025-07-01T14:32:35+00:001 July 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

Focusing on weight loss alone for obesity may do more harm than good

A healthy lifestyle has important benefits, but weight alone might not give an adequate picture of someone’s health, say experts Focusing solely on achieving weight loss for people with a high body mass index (BMI) may do more harm than good, argue experts in The BMJ today. Dr Juan Franco and colleagues ...

2025-06-26T09:25:16+00:0026 June 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

GP performance pay fails to drive lasting changes in quality of care

Financial incentives alone are no magic bullet to improve quality, say researchers Introducing performance related pay for UK general practices initially improved quality of care, but did not seem to provide lasting improvements beyond that expected by previous trends, finds a study published by The BMJ today. And initial gains in quality ...

2025-06-26T09:24:42+00:0026 June 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

Surgery plus speech therapy linked to improved language after stroke

Trial suggests this is a superior treatment for chronic post-stroke aphasia Combining neck surgery with intensive speech therapy is associated with greater improvements in a person's ability to communicate after a stroke than intensive speech therapy alone, finds a clinical trial published by The BMJ today. The results show improvements immediately after ...

2025-06-26T09:16:11+00:0026 June 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

BMJ finds inaccuracies in key studies for AstraZeneca’s blockbuster heart drug ticagrelor

Investigation finds evidence of serious misreporting, raising fresh doubts over the approval and decade long use of ticagrelor In a follow up investigation into the multibillion dollar drug ticagrelor, The BMJ has uncovered fresh concerns, this time in key platelet studies used in its FDA approval. For more than a decade, ticagrelor ...

2025-06-20T09:46:36+00:0020 June 2025|Press release, The BMJ|
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