India’s medical regulatory authority has eased faculty recruitment rules to expand the pool of eligible teachers for medical colleges. But the move has drawn criticism from some, who warn that it ...

International studies that risked imminent shutdown because of cuts imposed earlier in the Trump administration may have won a reprieve after an apparent change in policy at the US National Institutes ...

The BMA has announced a strike by resident doctors in England for five days later this month, from 7 am on 25 July to 7 am on 30 July. The announcement follows a ballot of resident doctor BMA members ...

The French parliament has passed a controversial bill to reintroduce a neonicotinoid pesticide that is believed to kill bees and cause cancer and other diseases in humans. In the National Assembly, or ...

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 ...