The Medical Protection Society has called for all NHS trust staff who deal with disciplinary investigations to have specialised training, to ensure that doctors are treated fairly and compassionately, ...

Access to the UK’s rich and vast banks of health data should be streamlined and simplified, to capitalise on the unique opportunity it offers to boost biomedical research and improve lives, a major ...

Toxicologists have warned of a sharp rise in drug overdose deaths in England involving a group of potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Nitazenes have been found as contaminants in street heroin ...

NICE has said it expects to evaluate dozens of potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease over the next few years. Elisabeth Mahase examines what we know about these drugs This year the National ...

The narrative on universal health coverage should be centred around four core elements: universality, equity, adequate financing, and preparedness in public health emergencies, write Katri Bertram and ...

Witnessing a postmortem examination can be markedly different from undertaking a dissection, and may be more distressing. Medical students should receive a detailed brief about the technical practice ...

New study reports protective effect among people with type 2 diabetes Kidney stones and the systemic conditions associated with them have a major impact on health and the economy in the US and ...

A health scandal in which newborn babies were allowed to die for profit has cast a harsh light on Turkey’s growing reliance on private hospitals. Eleven private hospitals in and around Istanbul have ...

Therapist guided conversations with digital avatars may reduce the frequency of voices heard by patients diagnosed with ...

The UK is making progress in developing cancer vaccines, but there are still challenges ahead, Chris Baraniuk reports The UK is on its way to becoming a hotbed of cancer vaccine trials. In May this ...

Over 100 governments at a United Nations event in Colombia have committed to ending violence against children, including through banning corporal punishment, improving services for the children ...

Salisbury says that physician associates (PAs) have no place in general practice,1 but the 2000 already employed would ...