Credit: Rowena Sheehan Far too many people dying and grieving remain undersupported and feared. Dying is “as natural and inevitable a transition as birth,” says Lucy Selman, an expert in dying and ...

Objective To analyze mortality attributed to Alzheimer’s disease among taxi drivers and ambulance drivers, occupations that ...

Objective To evaluate the cognitive abilities of the leading large language models and identify their susceptibility to cognitive impairment, using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and ...

Despite growing public interest in death, support for end-of-life care and bereavement remains inadequate. We urgently need a community centred, public health approach to the social processes of dying ...

The UK government has announced plans to introduce a league table of NHS providers, with rewards for the leaders.1 Managers get more pay for better performance, but what do all the staff get who do ...

The selective noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor atomoxetine and stimulants (amphetamines and methylphenidate) are the “most effective treatments” for managing the symptoms of attention ...

Epidemiology is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why. Epidemiological information is used to plan and evaluate strategies to prevent illness and as a guide to ...

A new approach for teaching clinical skills At the heart of the practice of medicine is the tenet “to do good or to do no harm.”1 Fundamental to achieving this objective is continuing professional ...

The US has reported its first severe case of H5N1 avian influenza in a patient who has been admitted to hospital in Louisiana, bringing the total number of human cases of H5 bird flu in the country to ...

The government has released preliminary details of what it wants to include in the new contract for GPs in England, including adding an extra £889m to the existing budget for general practice.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put on hold all respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine trials involving infants (aged under 2 years) or RSV naive children aged 2-5 years, after a ...