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Medicine and Science from The BMJ
The BMJ brings you interviews with the people who are shaping medicine and science around the world.
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We need to understand how global market forces undermine healthcare
This week we focus on the external forces that shape medicine and healthcare.
Global health is changing, after the reduction in financing from...
Are doctors afraid of death?
In this week's podcast - the Sensitivity of Patient Questionnaires: If you've ever asked a patient to fill out a Patient Health Questionnaire (like th...
What Manchesterism and devolved power might mean for healthcare
Known for his use of devolved powers, during his tenure as Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham now has the opportunity to bring his local bluepr...
Measuring ethnicity in research, NHS job discrimination, and how medicine led evidence revolution
Discrimination in NHS Hiring: We examine the troubling success rates of Black and Asian doctors when applying for NHS jobs. Deputy news editor, Gareth...
Hands off our data: the need for sovereignty in a connected world
Who actually owns our health data once it is stored in the cloud? And how do we balance the global push for open medical research with the need to pro...
750 recommendations, and little change - why the UK keeps having maternity care reviews.
Two NHS maternity reviews have been published over the past few weeks. The biggest ever conducted, involving nearly 2500 families, investigated servic...
Children are bypassing the Australian social media ban
Australia has been in the vanguard of legislation to try and reduce the influence of social media on children and young people - their ban for under 1...
The £400 million blackhole for doctor training, drug ads evading regulation, and reining in AI in war
The US military’s Operation “Epic Fury” highlighted the devastating cost of using artificial intelligence for rapid military planning. Thomas Adamkiew...
Cancer screening: when does testing go too far?
The heated debate on prostate cancer screening boils down to one question: should men be routinely screened?
Two recent position statements from...
Child mortality has reduced, but self harm and violence is increasing
New estimates of Global Patterns in Neonatal, Child, and Adolescent Mortality have been published - and while there has been a huge improvement, those...
How to make healthcare more human
Does healthcare have a moral emergency?
In this episode of the Medicine and Science podcast, Kamran Abbasi sits down with healthcare leaders Mau...
What does Wes Streeting's exit mean for the NHS modernisation bill?
It has been a tumultuous time in UK health politics. UK Health Minister ,Wes Streeting, has freshly resigned. What does this mean for his newly introd...
Social media companies are using the tobacco industry playbook to addict children
Twitter was launched 20 years ago, followed quickly by the iPhone and Instagram. Today, nearly 60% of the world’s population uses social media. Medica...
Revisiting the Cass Review on gender identity services, and non-invasive brain stimulation for children with autism
The BMA has released their long awaited review of the Cass report. The original report looked at the provision of NHS gender identity services for chi...
The US UK trade deal will cost the NHS billions, and only serve to increase pharma profits
The new trade deal struck between the UK and US came into force in April.
The deal will
Cumulatively this will increase our drug spend by...
MS drug controversy, adoption outcomes in Sweden, and the multi-factorial reality of Alzheimer’s
A blockbuster MS drug undergoes FDA re-evaluation. We explore the story of Ocrelizumab, a treatment for primary progressive multiple sclerosis, follow...
The Trump administration is an international health emergency
Covid 19 was the last Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Our guests in this podcast think that the Trump Administration should...
The 15th strike, and bringing compassion back to A&E
Coming up in this week’s episode:
The 15th Strike: As the latest six-day walkout by resident doctors in England concludes, the BMJ's news team e...
The unchecked rise of shisha tobacco cafes, and making breastfeeding stick
The BMJ published a negative result this week. A new trial focuses on a peer support intervention for improving breastfeeding rates in the UK, but fin...
New Covid inquiry findings with Dr Kevin Fong, and invasive cosmetic procedures
The UK Covid Inquiry released Module Three of its findings this month. It lays out in startling detail the lived experiences of NHS staff and patients...
How the war in Iran will disrupt medical supplies around the world
The Gulf states are not large producers of pharmaceuticals or healthcare products - but the oil they supply, and the transport infrastructure they hav...
Is the NHS in danger of making misinformation worse?
The lure of health influencers and AI chat bots is strong. More and more people are placing trust in them to answer their health problems, misplaced t...
What should GP's make of the new NHS contract?
In this episode, Dr Katie Bramall, Chair of the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee, joins the podcast to discuss her concerns surrounding the new G...
Household air pollution, Labour’s lag on child poverty, children forced to cope with conflict
As public health officials warn about rising emissions from urban wood burning, a BMJ investigation finds that just under a third of UK councils in hi...
Measles is surging in 2026. From London to Texas, why are cases hitting a 30-year high?
In this episode, we investigate the alarming resurgence of measles across North America and the UK. While cases are falling across much of Europe and...
Rethinking Cancer Survivorship and the Autism Gender Gap
In this week’s episode, we challenge long-held medical narratives, starting with how the healthcare system manages life after a cancer diagnosis. Whil...
"We see coercion the other way... People cannot let go of their dying family" - assisted dying around the world
The House of Lord's amendments to England and Wales assisted dying bill might be causing a constitutional crisis. Lords have tabled 1,277 amendments—w...
How the internet hijacked our health
Deborah Cohen's new book "How the internet hijacked our health" explores the profound impact of the internet on our wellbeing.
In this conversat...
What access to GPs tells us about the NHS 10 year plan, and online gambling
We’re 18 months into the Labour government, and their changes to the NHS are beginning to be felt. In the 10 year plan that they launched last year, t...
How much should doctors be paid? | BMJ Interviews Economist Richard Murphy
This interview is available in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yNO47EfuEM
@RichardJMurphy, political economist and tax ca...
GLP-1 weight regain and doctors forced out of Gaza
The class of GLP-1 agonist drugs including Ozempic gained a wide reputation for weight loss in 2025. However, it's well established that weight regain...
Could a Ministry for the Future solve the climate crisis? | Kim Stanley Robinson interview
This episode is available in video form on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1cGrD47eZSk
American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson jo...
Christmas 2025 - neologisms, longevity and unexpected research
It’s time for 2025’s festive fun!
Practicing medicine can be a very visceral experience - and the English language can’t always adequately captu...
The shadow use of Gen AI in the consultation room
In this episode, we hear how Generative AI is making it into the consultation room - but not through NHS endorsed routes - surveys suggest that ⅔ of d...
ADHD therapies, and the NHS gig economy
There is an enormous amount of research on treatment for ADHD - pharmaceutical and otherwise. But not all of those trials, or meta-analyses, are of hi...
The Covid Inquiry - special episode
"Damning” and “unforgivable failures” is how some papers headlines reacted to criticism of former UK prime minister Boris Johnson in the secon...
Special Ep - The Covid Inquiry
"Damning” and “unforgivable failures” is how some papers headlines reacted to criticism of former UK prime minister Boris Johnson in the second of 10...
Climate, “car spreading”, and conflict
It’s the BMJ’s annual climate issue - and in this episode, we’ll be hearing about more ways in which climate mitigation is good for health.
Doctors against the far right
Far right rallies have been held across the UK, culminating in a large parade in London where Elon Musk spoke. At the same time, politicians from acro...
The shaky science of the Q-collar, exercise for osteoarthritis, and patient choice.
This week on the podcast
The BMJ investigates Q-COLLAR, an American device that distributors claim can reduce brain injury from contact sports....