A man in his 30s presented to the emergency department after becoming intoxicated and striking the ground with his right fist. He reported pain, swelling, and limited movement around his right fifth ...

To borrow a phrase from American football, Donald Trump is flooding the zone. The NHS is flooding the zone. Even medical journals are flooding the zone. Pity the citizen, health professional, or ...

Hospitals in England are being urged by a watchdog to learn from a trust’s “tragic” delayed diagnosis of a woman’s cancer that denied her time with her family. The office of the Parliamentary and ...

P values and confidence intervals are often used in science and medicine to quantify chance and uncertainty. An essay in Nature , however, claims that probability isn’t an objective property of a ...

General practice is changing fast. There is an abundance of digital technology supporting many new service delivery models.1 The NHS App is increasingly used to access GP services. Almost 40 000 new ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research “Small individual gain, larger population gain” sounds like the theme for a preventive medicine conference. It’s actually the headline of an editorial about a ...

Moiz Salhi/Anadolu/Getty Images This group of children are among the thousands of Palestinian refugees returning to their home towns in the Gaza Strip after last month’s ceasefire between Israel and ...

Over one year on from Israel's continued siege on Gaza, Duha Shellah examines the impact on Gaza’s medical students, and the implications that this has for the destruction of healthcare infrastructure ...

Doctors treating Valdo Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and murdered two university students and a school caretaker, refrained from giving him long lasting depot injections of ...

Stephen Barnes, known by his childhood nickname Jim, was born in Oxford and educated at Westminster School. He trained at Cambridge and the Middlesex. After house jobs he embarked on a career in ...

As Gaza entered its fourth month of the escalation of violence by Israeli forces, I was just a few months into my medical intern year—treating children with bomb blast injuries. In one case, I ...

Sarah Benn loses suspension appeal The retired GP and climate activist Sarah Benn lost her High Court appeal against a misconduct finding and suspension by a medical practitioners’ tribunal over her ...