Treatment should be based on medical need not risk control The independent sentencing review, led by former lord chancellor ...

Waes hael was an Anglo-Saxon greeting meaning be whole or be healthy. From this is derived the modern word health. Paul said ...

Napier attended Worksop College before winning a scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge, to read medicine. After ...

Chris was born in Middlesbrough on 11 November 1960, to Judith Ann and Donald Rigg, and grew up in Stockton-on-Tees. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

The BMA has called on NHS England to tell general practices that physician assistants (PAs), previously known as physician associates, must not see undifferentiated patients, as recommended in 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medicaid cuts mean worse care for patients, less money for hospitals, and greater harm for everyone, writes Mitchell H Katz Until the US passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, being on a low income ...