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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The proposed constitutional amendment would be a massive setback for reproductive rights and health in Brazil, write Michelle Fernandez , Luísa Fernandes , and Melania de Amorim In Brazil, a proposed ...

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 ...

We have seen that when a set of observations have a Normal distribution multiples of the standard deviation mark certain limits on the scatter of the observations. For instance, 1.96 (or approximately ...

With a sense of inevitability and clear predictability, urgent and emergency care in the UK is rapidly heading into another winter of discontent. We are seeing signs that we will experience another ...

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 ...

Ministers have announced an independent commission on adult social care in England, to inform the creation of a national care service. Elisabeth Mahase looks at what we know The government’s ...