Yvette Hendricks was born with sickle cell disease in 1961, a time when many patients would not have been expected to live much beyond their teenage years. Hendricks, however, spent a lifetime defying ...

I’m currently taking a few weeks away from my work as a surgeon, recovering from a hip replacement. My surgery was robot assisted and the results are astonishing. Evidence on robot assisted surgery ...

Poor coordination between services and sporadic training are failing domestic abuse victims, write Simon Opher and Cherryl Henry-Leach An estimated 2.3 million women experienced domestic abuse in ...

England’s children’s commissioner has warned that some children are facing “almost Dickensian” levels of poverty that should shame the country into tackling systemic failures in society. Commissioner ...

Recruitment systems will continue to evade responsibility to their applicants unless they face financial consequences, write Elgan Manton-Roseblade and Callum Williams Postgraduate medical recruitment ...

We agree that examining the effect of retracted trials on systematic reviews substantially underestimates how problematic studies can affect healthcare evidence.1 Retracting untrustworthy, problematic ...

Sarah Turton/BMA BMA leaders have marked the 20th anniversary of the 2005 suicide bombings in London in a series of commemorative events. Four bombs exploded across the capital on 7 July 2005, causing ...

Resident doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in their campaign for full pay restoration. In response to the result, the BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee urged the ...

India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has strongly refuted claims—including from state ministers—that a spate of sudden deaths among younger adults have been caused by the covid-19 vaccine.

Asking people with type 2 diabetes their language and care preferences is vital to optimise outcomes globally, says Heather Koga As the US writer Ingrid Bengis said, “Words are a form of action, ...

Empowering people with obesity is essential to reduce stigma and facilitate co-creation of more equitable and effective policies and programmes, write María Eugenia Anselmi, Johanna Ralston , and ...

Stevens M, Brimblecombe N, Gowen S, Skyer R, Moriarty J. Young carers’ experiences of services and support: What is helpful and how can support be improved? PLOS One 2024;19:e0300551. To read the full ...