Patients need reassurance that they can trust healthcare professionals to feel truly safe, writes Liz Sutton Patient safety as an academic and applied discipline has arisen as the result of evidence ...

The UK’s drugs regulator has introduced new regulations that will enable hospitals to perform the final manufacturing steps of personalised gene therapy treatments. The Medicines and Healthcare ...

Doctors, healthcare workers, and aid staffers are now collapsing from starvation in Gaza and risk death queueing for food, humanitarian organisations have warned. The death toll at and around ...

The world’s wellness industry is worth trillions of dollars. The non-profit Global Wellness Institute claims that the wellness industry is worth four times as much as the drug industry.1 That’s a lot ...

Pretty much. Since January, health leaders globally have been calling for all alcoholic beverages to carry prominent warning labels to highlight cancer risk. First the US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy ...

Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of major sports tournaments has long raised eyebrows.1 The relationship between sport and junk food corporations continues to warrant scrutiny, not just on the global stage, ...

As a medical student, some of the best learning happens at the bedside: patients are some of our most important teachers. But learning from patients doesn't stop when we graduate. Often, these cases ...

Among 900 women with epilepsy studied throughout their pregnancy in China, around half remained free of seizures, whereas a quarter experienced deterioration of seizure control ( J Neurol Neurosurg ...

A 9 month old girl presented to the emergency department with a two day history of a few episodes of non-bilious non-bloody vomiting, diarrhoea, and intermittent distress with curling up of the legs.

This man in his 70s presented with a four year history of progressive non-pitting, hypertrophic plaques on both legs (fig 1). He did not report any fatigue, palpitations, changes to his weight, or ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Cannabinol—aka CBD—is a modern day tonic for almost any ailment, available in all good vape shops and petrol stations. In 2023, the Food Standards Agency cut the ...

An NHS consultant vascular surgeon has appeared in court charged with fraud for allegedly trying to claim more than £460 000 from insurers for two below-the-knee amputations that were self-inflicted.