A Nuffield Trust analysis has shown that resident doctors’ pay is still behind 2010-11 levels in real terms. The think tank published the data as NHS England’s chief executive said that doctors should ...

Doctors, healthcare workers, and aid staffers are now collapsing from starvation in Gaza and risk death queueing for food, humanitarian organisations have warned. The death toll at and around ...

The UK’s drugs regulator has introduced new regulations that will enable hospitals to perform the final manufacturing steps of personalised gene therapy treatments. The Medicines and Healthcare ...

Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of major sports tournaments has long raised eyebrows.1 The relationship between sport and junk food corporations continues to warrant scrutiny, not just on the global stage, ...

Studies suggest that some commercially available health tests are inaccurate and unsuitable for public use. Rebecca Coombes , Hristio Boytchev , and Gareth Iacobucci ask if regulation is adequately ...

The world’s wellness industry is worth trillions of dollars. The non-profit Global Wellness Institute claims that the wellness industry is worth four times as much as the drug industry.1 That’s a lot ...

A 9 month old girl presented to the emergency department with a two day history of a few episodes of non-bilious non-bloody vomiting, diarrhoea, and intermittent distress with curling up of the legs.

Among 900 women with epilepsy studied throughout their pregnancy in China, around half remained free of seizures, whereas a quarter experienced deterioration of seizure control ( J Neurol Neurosurg ...

Patients need reassurance that they can trust healthcare professionals to feel truly safe, writes Liz Sutton Patient safety as an academic and applied discipline has arisen as the result of evidence ...

Trainees are “uncomfortable” about raising concerns More than a quarter of UK medical trainees in some specialties reported feeling apprehensive or hesitant about escalating a patient to the ...

This man in his 70s presented with a four year history of progressive non-pitting, hypertrophic plaques on both legs (fig 1). He did not report any fatigue, palpitations, changes to his weight, or ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Cannabinol—aka CBD—is a modern day tonic for almost any ailment, available in all good vape shops and petrol stations. In 2023, the Food Standards Agency cut the ...