Next week the US president elect, Donald Trump, will take office with a mandate to make radical changes to the government’s approach to medicine and public health. Health insurance coverage in ...

While he was a senior house officer in Ashington, Northumberland, Mike Snow developed open tuberculosis. He had a considerable amount of time off work, including 100 days of intramuscular injections ...

Luke Craddock describes what it’s like working in an emergency department as winter pressures bite I’ve only been working as a foundation year 2 doctor in an emergency department for six weeks and ...

In the midst of huge winter pressures, NHS principles on care in “temporary escalation spaces” threaten to take leave from reality In September 2024 NHS England published Principles for providing safe ...

A former paediatric surgeon has been jailed for five years and seven months for offences committed while operating an unsafe and unsanitary mobile child circumcision service. Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, ...

The cost of colonoscopies and increasingly strict US insurance company policies are driving down rates of colorectal cancer detection in an age group that experts say is at particular risk. Paige ...

Sustained funding is needed for screening and care, but industry must also shoulder costs Alcohol is widely available and drunk by around 80% of adults in the UK. No safe level of alcohol consumption ...

Laura Abbott and colleagues highlight gaps in clinical care for pregnant women in prison and consider how best to meet their needs Two newborn babies died in UK prisons in 2019-20 and another died in ...

In recent years, the NHS has faced numerous drug shortages, with serious consequences for both patients and healthcare professionals.12 These ongoing shortages have affected a wide range of drugs, ...

A global commission of experts has called for a radical shift in how obesity is diagnosed, with less reliance on body mass index (BMI) to define disease. The commission, published in Lancet Diabetes ...

Siobhán O’Sullivan cites AI and trust as the ethical challenges of today—and decries the back seat that medical ethics is often pushed into I was working in translational medicine at the Royal Free ...

Enrolling the right number and type of patient is crucial Sepsis is a life threatening syndrome initiated by microorganisms.1 Severe and often lethal injuries (eg, shock, multiorgan failure, and ...