Leading U.S. and U.K. Medical Journals' Coverage of Wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Abstract

Recent wars in Ukraine and Gaza, prosecuted with U.S. backing, have caused massive losses of life and, in Gaza, destruction of medical facilities. We performed searches using PubMed and journal websites to assess how many items addressing these wars have appeared in the leading U.S. and U.K. medical journals. We find that the U.S.-based journals (especially the New England Journal of Medicine) have carried few or no items on these wars; the U.K.-based journals have published many more.