Medicine and Science from The BMJ

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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 protect local populations from data extraction? Kamran Abbasi sits down with Trudi Lang, Professor of Global Health Research at the U ... Show more

. 34min 42sec

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 services at Nottingham university hospitals NHS trust. It was led by senior midwife, Donna Ockenden, and its findings on poor and avoida ... Show more

. 47min 10sec

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 16s was introduced on the 10th of December 2025, to great fanfare, and a lot of interest around the world. But how effective are th ... Show more

. 38min 25sec

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 Adamkiewicz, associate professor at Morehouse School of Medicine, and Zulfiqar Bhutta, Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Heal ... Show more

. 48min 20sec

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 the UK’s national screening committee published in the BMJ show that screening decisions are steeped in complexity. The benefits of scr ... Show more

. 36min 51sec