This week’s five day strike by resident doctors in England will go ahead after BMA members overwhelmingly voted to reject the government’s proposed offer on training places. Resident doctors are due ...

Most doctors in Scotland believe that their role may need to change to meet future challenges, a major workforce review has found.1 Three quarters (74%) of the 2000 doctors who were consulted for the ...

A story of one woman’s fight against prejudice It is a truth universally acknowledged that a researcher in possession of a great manuscript, must be in want of a publisher. However little known the ...

From 5 am WhatsApp alerts to late night reports and the challenge of working with very few resources—Shafa’atu Abdulkadir, the medical activities manager for Médecins Sans Frontières’ Nigerian ...

Kenya’s High Court has suspended a new US-Kenya health cooperation agreement after it received petitions over data privacy and procedural problems. Justice Bahati Mwamuye’s 11 December order halts any ...

Credit: Whisypyhistory Terence English was a dynamic force with disparate talents and a penchant for wild extravagance. He performed Britain’s first successful heart transplant at Papworth Hospital in ...

The original definition of the word “bias,” when it entered the English language in the 16th century, was a diagonal line, and specifically one that cut across the warp or weft of a woven fabric. It ...

Medical science has been remarkably successful over the past two centuries at preventing and curing what were once common ...

The deal at a glance #### What’s in it? #### What’s not in the offer? Resident doctors could get 4000 more training posts and ...

At the time, effective treatment was still emerging, the UN response was fragmented, and some agencies were at odds over the ...

Objective To quantify the time lag between biomedical articles and the studies they describe as “recent,” a term widely used to imply timeliness despite rarely reflecting the actual age of the cited ...

Flu has come early this year—and cases are rocketing. Chris Baraniuk explains what’s making this season so exceptional ...