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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The fast food giant used a GP to support appeals against planning decisions in some deprived areas with the worst rates of food related ill health in England. Then it threatened councils with bills ...
To tackle preventable illness caused by consuming harmful products we need policies that reduce their availability, affordability, and visibility, writes Alice Wiseman Using medical professionals to ...
Social media has emerged as a powerful tool for medical students in India, enabling them to challenge entrenched norms, advocate for inclusivity, and demand accountability. Christianez Ratna Kiruba ...
The Senate Finance Committee voted to approve Robert F Kennedy Jr as head of the US Department of Health and Human Services by a vote of 14-13 on 4 February. The full Senate will vote on his ...
Despite major advances in artificial intelligence (AI) research for healthcare, the deployment and adoption of AI technologies remain limited in clinical practice. This paper describes the FUTURE-AI ...
What’s your view of herd immunity?” someone non-medical asked me at a party recently. “How long have you got?” I replied. It’s my way of avoiding an argument when I sense that somebody wants to ...