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 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 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 ...

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 ...

Resident doctors joined picket lines across England this morning (25 July) to mark the start of their five day strike over pay, after talks with the government failed earlier this week. Although most ...

Attacks on healthcare and violations of medical neutrality—the fundamental principle that medical care must operate free of political or military interference—have become alarmingly unexceptional in ...

The line manager of a transgender doctor who was asked to leave a women’s changing room by a nurse thought that the incident might be a hate crime reportable to police, she told an employment tribunal ...

Doctors, nurses, and medical auxiliaries throughout Bolivia went on strike for six days in July over an unpaid annual bonus considered a crucial part of their income. The strikes—which led to the ...

Stokel-Walker summarises the artificial intelligence (AI) tools being used to record doctor-patient conversations.1 I encourage clinicians who are using ambient scribing to familiarise themselves with ...