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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A plastic surgeon who is serving a life sentence for attempting to murder a colleague and burn down his home has been struck off the UK medical register. Jonathan Peter Brooks was convicted of ...
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 ...
Estimates of the genetic contribution to human life span have been surprisingly low, often around 20% or less. A reanalysis of Scandinavian twin cohorts suggests that these figures are distorted by ...
A woman in her 70s presented with an eight month history of transverse nail changes affecting all fingernails and toenails. She had a history of breast cancer treated with mastectomy, followed by six ...
Davies’s essay on polarisation in medicine is a wonderful read1: not only does she illuminate the importance of the problem, but her writing embodies the care, balance, and generosity of spirit ...
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