The National Institute for Health and Care Research’s summary of Stevens et al’s study highlights the features of support ...

It may feel too big and difficult, but hospitals and general practices can make practical changes to protect the planet, ...

Matias Delacroix/AP/Alamy Black River, a port town in southwest Jamaica, bore the brunt of Hurricane Melissa when it made ...

A doctor sued by Texas state for providing gender affirming care to minors has handed in her licence and moved out of state. Texas’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit against May Lau in ...

Young people’s risk of developing myocarditis is higher and longer lasting after covid-19 infection than after vaccination against it, the largest study of its kind suggests.1 The research—based on ...

Douglas Garvie was born in Glasgow and attended Hutchesons’ Boys’ Grammar School, where he was school captain and was awarded the dux medal for top academic achievement. He graduated from the ...

Gordon was born into a medical family: his father held senior surgical posts in Darlington and Birkenhead, and his mother was a nurse. Sadly, Gordon’s mother developed severe rheumatoid arthritis and ...

Nur Yanayirah describes how extreme heat affected her pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood In 2013 I was heavily pregnant with my daughter during a period of extreme weather in Indonesia. A long dry ...

A series of bombings and armed assaults on the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, on 28 October has killed more than 460 patients and healthcare workers. Reports suggest ...

Framing patient safety failings as aberrations obscures the need for deeper systemic change, writes James Titcombe . The total liability for clinical negligence claims against the NHS has now reached ...

NHS staff need to “build a broad movement to oppose the influence of racism and the far right,” doctors and other health workers say. In an open letter published in The BMJ a group of healthcare staff ...

Opher and Henry-Leach highlight the long neglected issue of mandated domestic abuse training for healthcare professionals.1 Our research in the field of domestic abuse in the palliative care context ...