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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The inquiry has heard further testimony from former ministers on the effect of the pandemic on UK healthcare systems. Jacqui Wise , Matthew Limb , and Gareth Iacobucci summarise some of the key ...

Of the various types of academic misdemeanours and felonies, perhaps plagiarism is the most difficult and complex to study and write about. Even defining it is difficult. The US Office of Research ...

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 ...