It can be hard to know how to respond when asked to undertake a task that isn’t part of your role, but there are ways to deal with it, Abi Rimmer hears Ashley Simpson, medical education fellow, NHS ...

A group of UnitedHealth Group shareholders has asked the company to report costs and patient risks related to denial of medical care. The demand comes in the wake of the murder of Brian Thompson, head ...

The BMA has called on the agency responsible for issuing NHS pensions savings statements to urgently rectify “completely unacceptable” errors that are making it impossible for doctors to accurately ...

A coroner has questioned whether enough information is provided about the risk of suicide associated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) after the son in law of Prince and Princess ...

Obstetrician and gynaecologist Rupert Fawdry was an original thinker, dismissed by some as a Luddite and acclaimed by others as a maverick genius. If computers had been invented first, he suggested, ...

An energy crisis has seen regular power blackouts throughout South America. Andersson Boscán reports from Ecuador where the situation is costing lives in both hospitals and homes Gabriela Alvaro’s ...

A GP in Bristol has been jailed for a year for his involvement in damaging petrol pumps during a protest against the climate emergency. Patrick Hart, 38, was given the 12 month sentence at Chelmsford ...

Emergency departments and other parts of the health system are under intense pressure as flu cases continue to rise. Jacqui Wise looks at the developing situation Latest NHS England figures show that ...

More than 18 000 US doctors have signed a letter calling on the Senate to reject Robert F Kennedy Jr as the federal secretary of health and human services. The letter, organised by the Committee to ...

Despite innovations and some impressive national responses, the covid-19 pandemic revealed limitations and gaps in efforts at national and global levels to prepare for and respond to health ...

Consuming an extra 300 mg of calcium a day, roughly the amount in a large glass of milk, could be linked to a decreased risk of bowel cancer, a large study has found.1 Researchers from Oxford ...

Authors, institutions, funders, and editors must be alert to the dangers A growing number of entities misrepresent themselves as scholarly journals for financial gain despite not meeting scholarly ...