While he was a senior house officer in Ashington, Northumberland, Mike Snow developed open tuberculosis. He had a considerable amount of time off work, including 100 days of intramuscular injections ...

Luke Craddock describes what it’s like working in an emergency department as winter pressures bite I’ve only been working as a foundation year 2 doctor in an emergency department for six weeks and ...

In the midst of huge winter pressures, NHS principles on care in “temporary escalation spaces” threaten to take leave from reality In September 2024 NHS England published Principles for providing safe ...

Next week the US president elect, Donald Trump, will take office with a mandate to make radical changes to the government’s approach to medicine and public health. Health insurance coverage in ...

A former paediatric surgeon has been jailed for five years and seven months for offences committed while operating an unsafe and unsanitary mobile child circumcision service. Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, ...

The cost of colonoscopies and increasingly strict US insurance company policies are driving down rates of colorectal cancer detection in an age group that experts say is at particular risk. Paige ...

A global commission of experts has called for a radical shift in how obesity is diagnosed, with less reliance on body mass index (BMI) to define disease. The commission, published in Lancet Diabetes ...

In recent years, the NHS has faced numerous drug shortages, with serious consequences for both patients and healthcare professionals.12 These ongoing shortages have affected a wide range of drugs, ...

Siobhán O’Sullivan cites AI and trust as the ethical challenges of today—and decries the back seat that medical ethics is often pushed into I was working in translational medicine at the Royal Free ...

The BMJ widely discussed the assisted dying bill that is currently at the committee stage in the UK parliament.1 Having worked for many years now for a health system that gives people more agency and ...

Enrolling the right number and type of patient is crucial Sepsis is a life threatening syndrome initiated by microorganisms.1 Severe and often lethal injuries (eg, shock, multiorgan failure, and ...

Sustained funding is needed for screening and care, but industry must also shoulder costs Alcohol is widely available and drunk by around 80% of adults in the UK. No safe level of alcohol consumption ...