One in three calls to Martha’s rule helplines in the first 16 months of the scheme helped NHS staff identify that a patient’s condition was deteriorating, NHS England has said. New data show that ...
A Jewish GP who told a Muslim colleague it was “typical of you Muslims to gaslight” has been suspended from the UK medical register for four months. A medical practitioners tribunal also found that ...
Vinay Prasad, the US Food and Drug Administration chief medical and scientific officer, will leave the agency for the second time, amid a series of disputes with pharmaceutical companies. FDA ...
Diagnoses of autism and other neurodivergence are rising. Jessica Eccles and Elizabeth Weir say that the trend is real—and that claims of “overdiagnosis” and insistence on exact case numbers are ...
From liaising with defence organisations to arriving early and dressing smartly, experts share their advice for doctors preparing for a coroner’s inquest Sean Bourke, emergency medicine consultant, ...
Funding uncertainty could weaken the UK’s higher education sector when it’s already under considerable strain, write Mishal S Khan and colleagues The UK health research funding landscape has changed ...
A bill promising to prioritise UK trained medical graduates for training places has become law. However, doctors’ leaders say questions remain over international medical graduates (IMGs) and the ...
Consultants have urged unions and regulators to protect their freedom of speech after high profile cases of doctors facing regulatory action. At the annual BMA consultants conference this week (4 ...
Health workers and facilities have come under attack across the Middle East as conflict engulfs the region, health leaders and charities warn. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ...
When the powers that be at King’s College Hospital told neurosurgeon Charles Polkey that it had decided to name a ward after him he was initially reluctant to accept the honour. He only relented after ...
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order aiming to increase domestic production of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate, sold as Roundup.1 Trump’s 18 February order comes under a ...
Chris Whitty is wrong to argue that debate on the PATHWAYS trial of puberty blockers in children should be left to specialists. The trial raises deep and important questions: ...