Clare Gerada: Leadership has no magic formula
I will soon become president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, only the second…
I will soon become president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, only the second…
A new research paper tells us (again) about the benefits of continuity of care. It…
AbstractObjectiveTo assess the effectiveness and safety of different preparations and doses of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs…
Estimating mortality attributable to different diseases, risk factors, or events is pivotal to inform resource…
The World Health Organization is calling for countries to take decisive action at the upcoming…
Six months after the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine, antibody concentrations in healthcare…
Wise reports on the finding that patients with the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 are more…
“Dr Govinda KC, an orthopaedic surgeon, went on hunger strike for the 16th time in…
Sweden, Norway, and Finland suspended the use of Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine on 7 October after…
“For this outbreak, it’s clear that long periods of heavy restrictions have not got us…
Caring doctors are divided when the noble ends of prolonging life and relieving suffering conflict.12…
The effect of the pandemic on non-covid related healthcare is only now starting to be…
After her objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in July, Eilidh Wilcockson, a third year medical…
It’s our moral duty to get enough restEmmeline Lagunes-Cordoba, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and crisis team specialty…
The government was warned four years before the covid-19 pandemic of the need to stockpile…
The World Health Organization’s triennial assessment of mental health services shows that the world has…
Mahase examines the “toxic” media stories about primary care that have left many GPs feeling…
MPs are being urged to examine how UK private hospitals secured potentially billions of pounds…
People who took part in covid-19 vaccine trials in the UK will be offered two…
Is this about boxing?No, not those kinds of jabs. We’re talking about sports people and…
Problems with the online booking system for a compulsory exam have caused significant disruption for…
Mathew and Oliver raise the uncomfortable but necessary notions that the workplace is not always…
The current shortage of blood tubes in the NHS should lead us to reconsider the…
AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the association between changes in long term residential exposure to ambient fine particulate…
“The past 18 months have showcased the extraordinary dedication and professionalism of healthcare workers in…
The NHS is on track to meet its target to become a carbon net zero…
Even in a country with a history of politicising healthcare, the six months since the…
The world is heating up and so is the urgency for action. Without radical change…
The World Health Organization has recommended widespread use of the RTS,S malaria vaccine among children…
Up to one in 10 adults in the UK could have diabetes by 2030 unless…
The government has refused to release the minutes of the meeting in which its vaccine…
In January 2020, an expert panel was tasked with setting out a practical and evidence…
Adverse effects of statinsA randomised trial suggests that most people who abandon statins do so…
Record breaking heat events, once rare, are now common.1 An extra 475 million exposures to…
Many major economies, including the US, EU, and UK, have committed to net zero greenhouse…
Covid-19Anti-vaccine videos are banned from YouTubeYouTube is banning videos that claim that commonly used vaccines…
Health and social care services need to work harder to improve the health of homeless…
It seems strange to suggest that moving to a neutral position on assisted suicide and…
Godlee argues for a stance of neutrality on the debate around introducing assisted suicide in…
Major European research institutions have shown a “dramatic improvement” in their rates of reporting clinical…
A combination of difficulty in accessing healthcare during the pandemic and ongoing shortages of certain…
Many experts predict that the covid-19 pandemic will set back progress for women in the…
AbstractObjectiveTo describe prominent authorship positions held by women and the overall percentage of women co-authoring…
Undergraduate medical curriculums are notoriously packed and space for new content is hotly contested. But…
The covid-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable and exposed the world is to global threats….
In 2018 the Royal College of Physicians published Outpatients: The Future—Adding Value through Sustainability,1 arguing…
ABSTRACTAcute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an uncommon but potentially catastrophic diagnosis with historically high mortality…
These are multiple linear erythematous streaks on the face of a teenage boy (fig 1)…
Hospitals officials in the United States say that their doctors and nurses are seeing more…