A BMJ Commission will redefine the role of academia in healthcare Academic medicine remains under scrutiny. Despite various ...

These lifestyle factors appear to be particularly influential on lifespan, even in people predisposed to premature death, a ...

The idea behind guidelines is to provide a considered, unbiased, evidence-based, accessible, transparent and easy-to-use summary of the implications of current health knowledge for practice, which, if ...

The opportunities to harm health are legion, from bench to bedside to boardroom to bombardment. Doing what’s right for health is easily lost in the throes of academic competition, professional rivalry ...

This study highlights a lack of evidence base, a lack of knowledge of the research evidence, and a lack of management based on the current evidence that is available for these conditions.

When the first edition of How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence Based Medicine came out, a smattering of academics were just beginning to explore the concept of applying results from ...

Helen Salisbury notes that collective action on the social determinants of health is far more powerful than anything medicine can do. “Such benefits have been realised surprisingly quickly, as shown ...