One of my favourite poems is “Hope” is the Thing with Feathers , by Emily Dickinson. I discovered it at age 16, when medical school was still a distant dream and my biggest aim was to get through GCSE ...

I’ll always be grateful to the doctor who delivered my first baby: a kind and skilled obstetric registrar able to analyse the situation and undertake a ventouse extraction. I knew that yoga, breathing ...

A row has broken out over a decision by a local medical committee (LMC) to remove a GP from its committee, citing her lack of attendance at its meetings. Clare Sieber, a GP in West Sussex, said she ...

NHS England has announced a pilot scheme to test “more flexible staffing models” in general practice. The move has been criticised by the BMA, which said what was needed was better funding, not new ...

A consultant breast surgeon who took a job with an NHS trust without notifying it that he was under investigation by the General Medical Council for clinical failings, then went on to commit a litany ...

After the confusion of 2020, WHO has finally changed its definition of how diseases can spread through the air. But what is the new definition—and what needs to happen next? Mun-Keat Looi reports In ...

Israel’s military bombardment and siege of Gaza, we are witnessing the onset of a man made and entirely preventable famine, say Sameer Sah and Khaled Dawas In December 2023, we led Medical Aid for ...

Polypharmacy is common in older adults and is associated with adverse drug events, cognitive and functional impairment, increased healthcare costs, and increased risk of frailty, falls, ...

Only two years ago when we were looking to add to our team of doctors, we had just a handful of applicants. Other practices nearby had to do several rounds of recruitment before being able to appoint.

The judge who heads the High Court’s family division has warned of the risks of obtaining hormone prescriptions from online gender clinics, after an expert witness told the court that a teenager had ...

Women in the US should begin breast cancer screening with mammography at age 40 and be screened every other year until the age of 74, the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended.1 US doctors ...

These children are at risk of poor physical, emotional, mental, and social outcomes In March 2024, the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reported new data on household food insecurity for ...