Ongoing research is critical to identify potential risks of new formulations, write Amani Meaidi and Harman Yonis Hormonal contraception has been a fundamental aspect of reproductive health for ...
A doctor who was chief executive of the NHS trust that employed the nurse Lucy Letby is expected to be awarded a seven figure sum in compensation after an employment tribunal ruled that she was forced ...
A referral is statistically more likely, so work must continue to improve things, Abi Rimmer hears Udvitha Nandasoma, MDU head of advisory services, says, “The General Medical Council’s State of ...
In 2024 the US environment agency banned most uses of a solvent that has been widely used for a century. Indira Subramanian explains why, and why the ban might not be enough to halt rising cases of ...
The government has named former NHS doctor Penny Dash as its preferred candidate to take on the post of chair of NHS England. Dash is currently the chair of the NHS North West London Integrated Care ...
Schizophrenia is perhaps the human condition,” wrote Tim Crow in 2000.1 Crow had been researching schizophrenia for most of his psychiatric career but the origins of this most complex condition had ...
The citation index, first seeded as an embryo by the information scientist Eugene Garfield in the 1950s, was delivered in the 1960s as a fully formed child, the Science Citation Index. Its twin ...
New parents should be offered only infant formula products with plain standardised packaging while in hospital, to avoid being led into subsequent costly brand loyalty, the UK’s competition regulator ...
All alcoholic beverages should carry prominent health warning labels to highlight the heightened risk of cancer from drinking, the World Health Organization has advised. A report from WHO Europe1 ...
Improved cancer outcomes are the real target, argue Pat Price and Mark Lawler A good news story about cancer was released at the start of this year by NHS England.1 Over the period between September ...
Doctors in training in the UK have been made to feel like a “number on a spreadsheet being shoved around,” in a fragmented and “incredibly destructive” system, the BMA’s chair of council, Philip ...
I welcome Martin and colleagues’ thought provoking reflections on the role of general practice in delivering primary prevention for asymptomatic people.1 Illich’s concepts of clinical and social ...