Access to urgently needed mpox vaccines in Africa is being hampered by the refusal of leading vaccine manufacturer Bavarian Nordic to share its technology and disclose its prices, a consumer rights ...
Lebanon’s healthcare system is facing “immense challenges” after five facilities were targeted in airstrikes and 38 staff were killed, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian ...
Delivering high quality, patient centred care requires medical training that is long enough, broad enough, and deep enough, writes Andrew Elder A senior medical leader recently gave me a piece of ...
The number of adults in England who use e-cigarettes despite never regularly smoking tobacco has risen sharply to around a million people, a study has found.1 Researchers at University College London ...
A senior consultant paediatrician has told the Thirlwall inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of newborns at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015-16 that he feels “ashamed” for ...
A court judged nurse Lucy Letby guilty of seven murders and seven attempted murders in August 2023. But in the year since then questions have been raised about the evidence used to convict her. With a ...
Grant Kelly was an IT visionary who helped instigate many of the developments in general practice informatics that are now taken for granted. Kelly was a member of the influential BMA General ...
The great Indian heat wave broke all records. It scorched a vast swath of the country, from Gujarat and Rajasthan in the west, eastward across Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to West Bengal. In rural areas ...
A group of organisations advocating for Canadians with disabilities has launched a court challenge against a key provision of Canada’s law on medical assistance in dying (MAID) that currently allows ...
When I started writing Perilous Times —a novel in which Arthurian knights return from the dead to save Britain from peril in an exaggerated post-Brexit dystopia—I was suffering from an acute case of ...
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, the umbrella organisation for the colleges, has intervened in the debate about the role and status of physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs). It has now ...
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has urged the UK government to launch a rapid, independent review of the role of physician associates and anaesthesia associates because of “mounting concern” ...