Adrian O’Dowd

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News & ViewsHealth leaders reject... Health leaders reject law change that would give clinicians power to detain people in mental health crisis News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1085 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r1085 Proposals to give medical practitioners the same power as the police to detain people who are experiencing a mental health crisis have been rejected by a group of health and social care organisations.

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News & ViewsNew targets needed to... New targets needed to reduce infant death rates after slow progress, say charities News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1073 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r1073 Two leading baby loss charities have called for new commitment from the government to reduce stillbirths and neonatal deaths in England.

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News & ViewsBMA sounds alarm over... BMA sounds alarm over medical students planning to leave UK News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1058 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r1058 Disillusion and a lack of enthusiasm among medical students in Northern Ireland has “worrying implications” for its health service, the BMA has warned.

2 weeks ago | bmj.com | Adrian O’Dowd

News BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1034 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r1034 The overall health of adolescents worldwide is at risk of worsening in the coming years despite some improvements in the past decade, an international report has concluded.

2 weeks ago | bmj.com | Adrian O’Dowd

A sharp rise in drug related deaths in recent years is largely responsible for the UK’s mortality worsening compared with other high income countries, an analysis has found. The UK rate of drug related deaths was more than three times higher in 2019 than the average of peer countries, a report1 by the Health Foundation found. Mortality for men and women in the UK fell between 1990 and 2023, but most of this improvement happened before the early 2010s.