Rules regarding ways doctors must keep their personal beliefs in check when treating patients are being updated by the General Medical Council. The regulator has launched a consultation1 on proposed ...
Ralph Ross Russell—or R3, as he was affectionately known—became a neurologist at a time when strokes were not deemed worthy of academic attention. He was one of the first to make study of the ...
Leo was born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1930 into a poor Orthodox Jewish family who had fled the pogroms in Poland after the first world war. His father became a communist and was in and out of prison ...
Global health is being reshaped not by epidemiology, but by geopolitics. As donor priorities shift, multilateral institutions weaken, and development finance fragments, a central truth is emerging: ...
GPs increasingly observe, with good reason, that primary care absorbs all the risk and demand that the rest of the health and social care system cannot cope with. But those of us working in acute ...
The NHS “teetered on the brink of collapse” during the pandemic but was saved by the “superhuman” efforts of doctors and other healthcare staff, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has concluded.1 But these ...
Reproductive rights are a stark exception to US politicians’ rallying around individual freedom, with abortion bans tightening state control over women’s health and causing preventable deaths, writes ...
The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is in crisis and, as the government has acknowledged in its recent white paper, needs to change.1 The number of children receiving the more ...
Does being a doctor make it easier to be a patient? You might argue that it’s harder. Is there anything to be gained from inside knowledge when the system is resistant to change? What impact does it ...
An emergency department doctor who exploited the health concerns of two female junior colleagues for his own sexual gratification has been suspended from the UK medical register for 12 months. Khush ...
Speed is of the essence in recognising and treating invasive meningococcal disease, of which there is an outbreak in young people in Kent caused by group B meningococcus bacteria (MenB). Emma ...
Millions of children around the world are still dying from preventable causes, and progress on tackling this is being harmed by global aid cuts, United Nations (UN) leaders have warned. A major UN ...
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