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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The temptations of doctors to act inappropriately are many and well documented. They include, among others, the temptation to put financial gain before patient wellbeing, to cut corners to reduce ...

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 ...

Around 2000 claimants in the UK are proposing to take legal action against Johnson & Johnson over claims that its talcum powder products caused cancer. The law firm KP Law has sent a letter before ...

The aim of an integrated neighbourhood team (INT) is to bring medical, nursing, and social care services to the patient’s ...

A grassroots food assistance programme in Brazil that grew out of the pandemic is now trying to counter obesity and other ...