In 1983 surgeons across East Africa began to compare notes about a new disease, known colloquially as “slim,” which was ...

Alastair Paterson explores how the increasing number of prospective doctors allocated to placeholder posts is indicative of a growing workforce crisis The growing number of medical students put on a ...

A growing tendency in official data to ask a person for their gender identity rather than their sex is having serious consequences in some areas of healthcare such as missed cancer screenings and ...

Researchers have criticised the UK drug industry trade association’s decision to restore Novo Nordisk’s membership despite the company being subject to ongoing regulatory breaches during its two year ...

Jacqui Wise rounds up the latest from the UK covid inquiry, focusing on procurement and distribution of equipment and supplies Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers and deputy chief ...

Current insights and remaining questions Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), originally described in 1977, entered clinical practice as a non-invasive method to assess regional tissue oxygenation.1 ...

Buse and McKee discuss the potential changes to global health directions, funding, and structures under a second Trump administration.1 They note the risk to funding of organisations supporting sexual ...

Data on hospital beds are important1 but must not eclipse upstream priorities for tackling pressures in the NHS. Strengthening general practice is crucial. This calls for medical educators and NHS ...

Consultant old age liaison psychiatrist Raja Badrakalimuthu speaks to Kathy Oxtoby about why making a difference to a person with dementia or their family makes his day A love of people and their life ...

Dissecting cadavers is a mainstay of medical education, but it relies on donors and poses ethical and other challenges. Roshni Shastri and Crispin Wiles argue that modern teaching has moved on, but ...

The bill is an important opportunity to finally remove the “reasonable punishment” defence for smacking children in England, write Andrew Rowland and Grace Hastie The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools ...

MPs have voted down a House of Lords amendment that would have exempted general practices from paying increased national insurance contributions (NICs) from April. In October 2024 the chancellor of ...