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Machine learning based screening of potential paper mill publications in cancer research: methodological and cross sectional study
Baptiste Scancar, Jennifer A Byrne, David Causeur, Adrian G Barnett
BMJ  2026;392:e087581, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-087581 (Published 29 January 2026)
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Diagnostic tests for ovarian cancer in premenopausal women with non-specific symptoms (ROCkeTS): prospective, multicentre, cohort study
Sudha Sundar, Ridhi Agarwal, Katie Scandrett, Clare Davenport, Ben Van Calster, Susanne Johnson, Partha Sengupta, Radhika Selvi-Vikram, Fong Lien Kwong, Sue Mallett, Caroline Rick, Sean Kehoe, Dirk Timmerman, Tom Bourne, Hilary Stobart, Richard D Neal, Usha Menon, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Lauren Sturdy, Ryan Ottridge, Jonathan J Deeks, on behalf of the ROCkeTS collaborators
BMJ  2026;392:e083912, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-083912 (Published 28 January 2026)
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Reliability of urological telesurgery compared with local surgery: multicentre randomised controlled trial
Ye Wang, Dan Xia, Wanhai Xu, Mulati Rexiati, Wuyi Zhao, Qingbo Huang, Taoping Shi, Baojun Wang, Shuo Wang, Sheng Tai, Bingzhang Qiao, Yubai Zhang, Sunyi Ye, Xiangping Zhang, Jianle Mao, Yi Zhu, Honglei Wang, Shuangyu Ma, Cheng Yang, Weijun Fu, Tao Song, Qing Ai, Yong Song, Longhe Xu, Guoqiang Yang, Yu Gao, Shaoxi Niu, Jing Guo, Guojun Liu, Xueyuan Xiang, Chaozhao Liang, Xin Ma, Hongzhao Li, Xu Zhang, on behalf of the TeleS Research Group
BMJ  2026;392:e083588, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-083588 (Published 28 January 2026)
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Provision of knee bracing for knee osteoarthritis (PROP OA): multicentre, parallel group, superiority, statistician blinded, randomised controlled trial
Melanie A Holden, Elaine Nicholls, Zainab Abdali, Fraser Birrell, Belinda Borrelli, Michael Callaghan, Krysia Dziedzic, David Felson, Nadine E Foster, Nicola Halliday, Carol Ingram, Clare Jinks, Sue Jowett, George Peat, on behalf of the PROP OA trial team
BMJ  2026;392:e086005, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-086005 (Published 26 January 2026)
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State of the Art Review: Evaluation and management of chest pain from cardiovascular causes in female patients
Deborah Diercks, Mengchen Cao, Mary McHugh, Caitlin Kibbey, Samia Farooqi
BMJ  2026;392:e086177, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-086177 (Published 30 January 2026)
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Easily Missed? Giant cell arteritis
Frances Mills-Baker, Tarek Bakht, Asanka Nugaliyadde, Anindita Paul
BMJ  2026;392:e086139, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-086139 (Published 29 January 2026)
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GLP-1 drugs: New warning after rise in reported deaths from pancreatitis
Chris Baraniuk
BMJ  2026;392:s204, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s204 (Published 30 January 2026)
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Clinical negligence: Government failing to tackle £3.6bn a year problem, public accounts committee says
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2026;392:s203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s203 (Published 30 January 2026)
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Nipah: two health workers infected, sparking quarantine of 200 and widespread airport screening
Tauseef Ahmad, Sajid Raina
BMJ  2026;392:s200, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s200 (Published 30 January 2026)
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94 children harmed by Great Ormond Street surgeon, review finds
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2026;392:s198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s198 (Published 30 January 2026)
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HPV: Vaccine uptake far below pre-pandemic level as 1 in 4 children leave school unprotected
Elisabeth Mahase
BMJ  2026;392:s196, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s196 (Published 29 January 2026)
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CDC: Unexplained pauses of vital data updates will have "dire" consequences, experts warn
Elisabeth Mahase
BMJ  2026;392:s193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s193 (Published 29 January 2026)
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AI: Researchers underreport use in journal submissions, analysis suggests
Zaynah Khan
BMJ  2026;392:s194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s194 (Published 29 January 2026)
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Royal colleges leave X because of "harmful content and abusive behaviour"
Chris Stokel-Walker
BMJ  2026;392:s185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s185 (Published 28 January 2026)
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FDA is now "open to bayesian statistics": transformational change or new Pandora’s box?
Peter Doshi
BMJ  2026;392:s180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s180 (Published 28 January 2026)
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More cancer doctors for coastal and rural areas under plan to end "postcode lottery"
Sally Howard
BMJ  2026;392:s184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s184 (Published 28 January 2026)
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COPD: New targeted treatment is approved by NICE
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2026;392:s183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s183 (Published 28 January 2026)
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Hearing aids: Nationwide shortage of batteries prompts rationing
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2026;392:s179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s179 (Published 28 January 2026)
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UK-France migrant plan "knowingly harms" detainees, report claims
Sally Howard
BMJ  2026;392:s178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s178 (Published 28 January 2026)
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US measles outbreak gives "real world" data on the unvaccinated, CDC vaccine chair says, as he questions polio jab
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2026;392:s175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s175 (Published 27 January 2026)
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Gaza: MSF is accused of "moral bankruptcy" in plan to share Palestinian staff’s details with Israel
Elisabeth Mahase
BMJ  2026;392:s174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s174 (Published 27 January 2026)
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UK loses its measles elimination status
Luke Taylor
BMJ  2026;392:s172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s172 (Published 27 January 2026)
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Israel’s Palestinian prisoners subjected to "living hell" of torture and sexual violence, report warns
Elisabeth Mahase
BMJ  2026;392:s171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s171 (Published 27 January 2026)
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ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt "illegal immigrants"
Luke Taylor
BMJ  2026;392:s168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s168 (Published 27 January 2026)
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Bowel cancer: NHS announces major change to screening in England
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2026;392:s166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s166 (Published 27 January 2026)
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Nature loss threatens UK national security, intelligence chiefs warn
Dominic Murphy
BMJ  2026;392:s165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s165 (Published 26 January 2026)
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Formula milk: Experts demand tighter safety checks after contamination scare
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ  2026;392:s164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s164 (Published 26 January 2026)
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Controversial African vaccine trial likened to Tuskegee is "cancelled"—but US funders insist it will continue
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2026;392:s161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s161 (Published 26 January 2026)
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Colombia: another health system at a fork in the road
Kamran Abbasi
BMJ  2026;392:s202, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s202 (Published 30 January 2026)
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Gaps remain in UK’s new child poverty strategy
David Taylor-Robinson, Kate Pickett
BMJ  2026;392:s167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s167 (Published 29 January 2026)
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Telesurgery 2.0
Prokar Dasgupta, Findlay MacAskill
BMJ  2026;392:s138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s138 (Published 28 January 2026)
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Prostate cancer screening study: PSA screening remains a probabilistic gamble
Edoardo Cervoni
BMJ  2026;392:s176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s176 (Published 30 January 2026)
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Baby death inquest: Remote consultations—a governance gap in patient safety
Asha Ramesh, Padmanabhan Badrinath
BMJ  2026;392:s181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s181 (Published 30 January 2026)
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America First strategy for global health: Health after hegemony: global health in the America First era
Nelson A Evaborhene
BMJ  2026;392:s169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s169 (Published 29 January 2026)
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Medical role in ending atrocities: Children’s environmental health under siege: the hidden burden of war toxicity in Gaza
Giovanni Ghirga
BMJ  2026;392:s148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s148 (Published 28 January 2026)
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Healthcare in Gaza: Dire state of neurological care in the Gaza Strip
Racheed M Mani
BMJ  2026;392:s142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s142 (Published 28 January 2026)
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Complexity of GP consultations: Complexity of GP consultations: time is the most valuable tool we have
Anna Wake
BMJ  2026;392:s135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s135 (Published 27 January 2026)
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Complexity of GP consultations: Doctors are at high risk of "complexity fatigue"
Jonathan Leach
BMJ  2026;392:s126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s126 (Published 26 January 2026)
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Drug misuse: New synthetic drugs more powerful than fentanyl pose a new epidemic threat
Marianne Guenot, freelance journalist
BMJ  2026;392:r2653, doi: 10.1136/bmj.r2653 (Published 29 January 2026)
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How politics destroyed Colombia’s model healthcare system
Luke Taylor
BMJ  2026;392:s76, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s76 (Published 26 January 2026)
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Why US import tariffs matter for health
Courtney McNamara, Benjamin Hawkins
BMJ  2026;392:e086271, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-086271 (Published 28 January 2026)
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Misleading narrative of "healthy" ultraprocessed foods
Leandro F M Rezende, Euridice Martinez-Steele, Maria Laura da Costa Louzada, Renata Bertazzi Levy, Carlos Augusto Monteiro
BMJ  2026;392:e087538, doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-087538 (Published 27 January 2026)
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Reginald Arnold Elson
Ian Stockley, Andrew Hamer
BMJ  2026;392:s186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s186 (Published 30 January 2026)
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Donal William Armstrong
Damien Armstrong, Aisling Armstrong, Caoimhe Armstrong
BMJ  2026;392:s189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s189 (Published 30 January 2026)
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Richard James Neville
Grahame Brown
BMJ  2026;392:s187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s187 (Published 29 January 2026)
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Frederick Edwin Willmott
David Rowen, Raj Patel, Liz Foley
BMJ  2026;392:s188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.s188 (Published 29 January 2026)
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