Imposter study participants risk undermining patient care, warn experts

Safeguards are needed to protect evidence-based practice Imposter participants threaten the integrity of health research and, by extension, the policies and clinical decisions built on it, warn experts in The BMJ today. Eileen Morrow and colleagues at the University of Oxford say the research community “must acknowledge the problem and dedicate resources to testing and implementing ...

2025-10-16T09:29:34+00:0016 October 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

Poorer health linked to more votes for Reform UK, 2024 voting patterns suggest

Policy-makers across political spectrum should step up efforts to tackle health inequalities Poorer health is linked to a higher proportion of votes for the populist right wing political party, Reform UK, indicates an analysis of the 2024 general election voting patterns in England, published online in the open access journal BMJ ...

2025-10-15T11:09:40+00:0015 October 2025|BMJ Open Respiratory Research, Press release|

Calorie labelling linked to 2% average reduction in energy content of menu items

Changes primarily due to swapping in slightly lower calorie items, rather than reformulation Likely to have “moderate to limited” impact on population health, conclude researchers Calorie labelling, which became law in April 2022 in England, is associated with only a small (2%) average reduction in the energy content of food ...

2025-10-08T12:47:48+00:008 October 2025|BMJ Public Health, Press release|

Lack of soap most reported barrier to effective hand hygiene in shared community spaces

Efforts to improve handwashing don’t always include basics of access to soap + water Lack of hand hygiene causes annual 740,000 deaths from diarrhoea or respiratory infections  But despite global recognition of its importance governments slow to act on hand hygiene A lack of soap is the most often reported ...

2025-09-17T13:46:38+00:0017 September 2025|BMJ Global Health, Press release|

Taste and price, not calories, key drivers for online takeaway orders, survey suggests

These orders tend to be favoured by younger adults and those living with obesity Limited impact of calorie labelling calls for extra strategies to promote healthier food choices Taste and price, rather than calorie content, seem to be the key considerations for those ordering takeaways online, despite calorie labelling legislation ...

New term for systematic, deliberate attacks on healthcare as acts of war: ‘healthocide’

Call out weaponisation of health and healthcare, medical practitioners urged  Silence implies complicity in direct contravention of humanitarian law and medical ethics  The deliberate destruction of health services and systems as an act of war should be termed ‘healthocide’ and medical practitioners should call out and stand firm against this ...

2025-08-06T16:09:00+00:006 August 2025|BMJ Global Health, Press release|
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