» Failing to collect, analyse, and report ethnicity data in clinical research leads to healthcare inequalities
14/07/25 09:21 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Collection of ethnicity data in clinical research has been poor historically, but is essential to ensure that interventions are effective and safe across diverse populations. These data are needed to monitor variations in the prevalence ...

» [Correspondence] From emergency multilateralism to resilient health diplomacy
12/07/25 00:00 from The Lancet
The convergence of multiple crises—including the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical fragmentation, climate shocks, digital disruption, and economic precarity—has exposed the fragility and limitations of global health cooperation.1 Although ...

» Pandemic response: no one is immune to getting things wrong
09/07/25 10:01 from Latest headlines from BMJ
Costello’s article on the UK’s covid-19 response1 has a companion piece in Wood et al’s discussion paper presented at the Royal Statistical Society earlier this year.2 Both papers contain little criticism of the elected politicians who w...

» An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination
09/07/25 09:00 from Massachusetts Medical Society: New England Journal of Medicine: Table of Contents
New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

» Covid-19: Indian health ministry refutes links between sudden cardiac death and vaccination
08/07/25 12:11 from Latest headlines from BMJ
India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has strongly refuted claims—including from state ministers—that a spate of sudden deaths among younger adults have been caused by the covid-19 vaccine.The ministry cited two complementary stu...

» [Review] Cancer vaccines and the future of immunotherapy
17/06/25 22:30 from The Lancet
Vaccines have had a major impact on the control of infectious disease, most recently by helping to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Prophylactic cancer vaccines have prevented several malignancies by protecting against cancer-causing pathog...