The new e-learning training modules aim to “increase understanding and ensure signs are not missed” to help combat stigma faced by people with ME/CFS. But the training will not be mandatory for ...

The medical community must oppose policies that limit access to medical education, exacerbate health inequalities, and subordinate research to ideology, writes Y Tony Yang Recent policy changes to ...

Failures of process and oversight cannot be allowed to persist Just over a year after the Infected Blood Inquiry urged the NHS to improve the safety of blood transfusion, the UK has recorded its ...

The NHS 10 year plan promises to transform child health, but Britain’s most senior paediatrician warns there needs to be a focus on delivery. Gareth Iacobucci reports “Poorly children become poorly ...

Looi discusses artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool for clinical training.1 I recently attended a seminar at Imperial College on AI’s role in teaching, with educators from diverse fields including ...

Majid draws attention to the enduring disparities in academic and professional outcomes among UK doctors, particularly between international medical graduates and their white, UK trained peers.1 ...

Steven Comyns describes living with an intolerance to many medications and how he would like health professionals to help him find a solution I am 61 years old and have lived with an intolerance to ...

A child at Liverpool’s Alder Hey hospital has died of measles.1 The tragic death comes less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the ...

Studies suggest that some commercially available health tests are inaccurate and unsuitable for public use. Rebecca Coombes , Hristio Boytchev , and Gareth Iacobucci ask if regulation is adequately ...

An NHS consultant vascular surgeon has appeared in court charged with fraud for allegedly trying to claim more than £460 000 from insurers for two below-the-knee amputations that were self-inflicted.

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has banned the mercury based preservative thiomersal (known in the US as thimerosal) from all influenza vaccines distributed in the US. Justifying the ...

The world’s wellness industry is worth trillions of dollars. The non-profit Global Wellness Institute claims that the wellness industry is worth four times as much as the drug industry.1 That’s a lot ...