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This week saw the British Medial Association’s Annual Representatives Meeting. Deborah Cohen and Helen Morant tell us what was going on in Brighton. Also this week we have the second….

Later this month sees the 17th International AIDS Conference in Vienna. One of the topics that will be discussed there is harm reduction, and the political will to embrace it.In….

The new coalition government’s white paper on health – encompassing the future of the NHS – was published this week. Chris Ham, chief executive of the health policy think-tank the….

This week the print BMJ has a cluster of articles on suicide – one of which talks about the efficacy of physical barriers to prevent suicide from bridges. In the….

The new coalition government’s plans for the NHS in England put GPs firmly in the driving seat – how do their secondary care colleagues feel about that? Jacky Davis, co-chair….

In June 2010 the drug company Novo Nordisk announced that its only conventional human biphasic insulin, human Mixtard 30, would no longer be available in the UK from January 2011,….

In this week’s podcast we discover the link between the weather and the risk of heart attacks – Krishnan Bhaskaran tells us about his research. Also, criticism and response are….

Jill Morrison talks about how people on long term incapacity benefit because of mental health problems could be identified by their GPs three years before they stop working. BMJ Deputy….

This week, to steal a line from the latest BMJ editor’s choice, we’ll be talking shit. The millennium development goal on sanitation is way off track; Lyla Mehta, a sociologist….

In this week’s podcast we find out from Sean Tunis about the future of comparative effectiveness research in the USA, and how the new institute created to champion it will….