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 ...

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

Public health needs proper funding, effective lines of communication, and support for its workforce to respond to future emergencies, writes Tracy Daszkiewicz The UK covid-19 inquiry’s second report ...

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 ...

We must end the commodification of health data by big tech companies, centre healthcare on care, and put people back in control, argue Victor, J P, and Victor M Montori Big tech companies are driving ...

Antimigrant rhetoric distracts from crises of poverty, housing, and health The Labour government’s proposed changes to the asylum system, published in the policy document Restoring Order and Control ...

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

Campaigners against the use of puberty blockers for gender questioning children have taken the first steps towards potential legal action to stop a clinical trial of the treatment. The Bayswater ...

Clinical words and phrases often work their way into doctors’ everyday language, sometimes without them realising. Nikki Nabavi reports Doctors are known for our use of jargon, acronyms, and myriad ...

Idioms used in medical practice might be baffling at first to the non-native English-speaking doctor, but they carry a “gentle wit” that lies at the heart of human interaction, writes Paolo Polzella ...

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