There is a stark mismatch between the current wonders of medical science and the relentless erosion of humanity of care in our healthcare services. It is time to put compassion back into healthcare.

Researchers probing the effects of tobacco, alcohol, and ultraprocessed food are often the targets of intimidation and tactics designed to deter them from continuing their work or to discredit them, a ...

As befitting someone whose life’s work was to enable patients to have a good death, Robert Twycross had mapped out his own to the last detail. Every aspect of his funeral was planned. The day before ...

The US Supreme Court has rejected an application for an injunction to stop the Washington Medical Commission, which regulates physicians in Washington State, from investigating and sanctioning doctors ...

A Dallas anaesthesiologist has been sentenced to 190 years in federal prison after a court found that he deliberately poisoned intravenous (IV) bags before they were used during operations, leading to ...

In September 2024, deaths from drug overdose in the US fell for the first time since the opioid epidemic.1 But in England and Wales, drug related deaths increased in 2023 to the highest level since ...

The humanitarian charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors Without Borders) has called on the Mexican government to guarantee the safe passage of migrants making their way to the US and provide ...

When choosing to specialise in cardiology, Rob Egdell worried that he was taking the easy route as he enjoyed it so much “I dabbled with lots of other complicated things, but always came back to ...

We need to redesign social media and other digital platforms so that these spaces are safer and healthier, writes Louise Holly Across the globe, countries are grabbling with how to shield children ...

GPs in England have called on the BMA to hold a special conference to discuss how practices will survive an increase in employers’ national insurance contributions. In the autumn budget the chancellor ...

Health workers, including doctors and other staff, staged a strike in Rome on 20 November in protest at proposals set out in the government’s budget. Anaao Assomed, Italy’s biggest trade union for ...

Distrust in science underpins the new administration The second term of office of US president elect Donald Trump looks set ...