Symptoms should be prioritised ahead of testing A societal transformation of attitudes and beliefs surrounding menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) has outpaced provider education, leaving primary care ...

The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has issued its own childhood vaccination schedule, including a recommendation for children to receive the covid-19 vaccine, in a major split with the US ...

More than half a million people in Gaza are now “trapped in famine,” as food and clean water continue to be used as weapons of war as part of Israel’s “genocidal campaign,” aid agencies have said. The ...

A new multimillion pound programme to test new obesity services and treatments, funded in part by the weight loss drug manufacturer Eli Lilly, could be seen as “marketing by another name,” public ...

Recent years have seen the emergence of research integrity sleuths, who devote time to detecting misconduct in academic research publications, a major source of which comes from paper mills, ...

Public health experts have warned that inadequate policies on conflicts of interest in government commissioned research into gambling “will only lead to more harm” for members of the public. Last year ...

The union representing UK physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) has said that hostility faced by some PAs from ...

The author and barrister John Mortimer once quipped that “no brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.”1 I was reminded of this quote on a visit to my GP for a ...

What is lifestyle medicine? It’s a massive hit on social media, where it seems to have captured the zeitgeist of a generation ...

The arguments made by Smith and colleagues are unusually good and balanced by the standards of most commentary on NHS manager regulation.1 But the headline—stating that regulation is just the ...

Many ingredients are needed to make a good doctor. Knowledge is a primary building block: anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology are all essential to understanding illness and knowing how we ...

Great Ormond Street Hospital’s (GOSH) use of physician associates (PAs) to fill gaps in its surgical rota raises concerns around supervision and decision making, England’s healthcare regulator has ...