The publishers of the Mail on Sunday have apologised and agreed to pay substantial libel damages and costs to a GP and a nutritional scientist whom the paper accused of knowingly making false ...

On 8 July a Russian missile strike heavily damaged Ukraine’s main children’s hospital. The damage to the city, and the country, was severe, reports Nataliia Bushkovska On 8 July, Russia launched a ...

John was born in Ballydwan, County Waterford, and, after qualifying at University College Cork, worked briefly in Waterford before moving to the UK in 1952. After a variety of posts, including a ...

Pradeep Saksena was born in Agra and studied medicine at the Maulana Azad Medical College at the University of Delhi. After graduating in 1970 he joined the Army Medical Corps. He met Anjana while ...

Bob Bell was born in Liverpool in 1943 and studied medicine at Edinburgh University. His paediatric training was at Liverpool and Dundee, briefly interrupted by a fellowship at Queen’s University, ...

Nearly half of US physician peer reviewers for four major international journals received industry payments totalling more than $1bn (£765m; €917m) over three years, a study has found. Most of the ...

This year has seen a double dose of optimism in the field of HIV prevention. First, on 20 June 2024, came the results of the Purpose-1 trial in South Africa and Uganda.1 This randomised controlled ...

Rimmer reports four doctors’ views on saying no to patients.1 The reasons for medicine becoming a service industry are the lack of time and potential extra workload associated with requests from ...

Creating workplace boundaries can be extremely challenging.1 Most of us go into the profession because we want to help others, and throughout training we are often rewarded when we overextend ...

Rimmer discusses ways to tackle the difficulties that doctors face in refusing to fully satisfy their patients’ needs and desires.1 Perhaps we should not say “no,” but “why?” Exploring patients’ ideas ...

The Labour government has an opportunity to not only reverse the harmful immigration legislation introduced by the previous government, but implement reforms to protect the mental health of those ...

The maternal death rate in the UK is at its highest for 20 years, with thrombosis and thromboembolism the leading cause of death, according to a major report. The latest MBRRACE-UK report, Saving ...