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+01:0010 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+01:008 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+01:004 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+01:001 July 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+01:0026 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+01:0020 June 2025|Press release, The BMJ|
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