Kamran Abbasi

Doctor politicians: stick to the evidence

The Cass review: an opportunity to unite behind evidence informed care in gender medicine

“Medication is binary, but gender expressions are often not”—the Hilary Cass interview

Technological determinants of health: a looming apocalypse

The Beano is a success. From its first issue in 1938 to today’s multimedia enterprise, the comic has ridden every wave in social norms and publishing strategies. In 2018 it became the world’s longest running weekly comic. Today, on beano.com, the comic is only one component of a digital offering that includes over 1000 quizzes, games, jokes, and facts majoring on trends popular among children. It isn’t hard to understand why almost 50 million children have visited beano.com, especially given it…

Health professionals and medical organisations must act now How do we restore hope for humanity? Many of us feel despair at a disintegrating political consensus to save our planet from fire, flood, disease, and conflict. We feel trapped in our high carbon lives and disempowered by commercial influence of companies whose products damage the planet and people’s wellbeing. Evidence for the effects of the politico-commercial complex is clear and alarming.1 On our current trajectory we will miss ca…

Investing in humanity: The BMJ’s divestment campaign

Misdirected care in a misdirected world

Transparency and trust