A consultant psychiatrist has been struck off the UK medical register after a tribunal found that he had engaged in “scaremongering” over coronavirus vaccines in an online video. Daniel Armstrong ...

Absolutely. As the name suggests, Veganuary encourages people to go vegan at the start of every year. Exactly! And eating more leaves too. The benefits of a plant based diet are well documented.1 It’s ...

Davis and colleagues highlight the critical need for clearer and more accessible information about medicines for patients.1 As an anaesthetist, I often encounter challenges in communicating the risks ...

Pilot medical apprenticeship programmes in England, which were being trialled as a new route into the profession, have been paused by the government. Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, one of the ...

The last major hospital in northern Gaza is now out of commission after a raid by Israeli forces left its surgical unit, medical store, and laboratory “burnt and severely damaged.” Staff and ...

Preliminary laboratory findings suggest that a mystery illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a combination of common and seasonal viral respiratory infections and malaria, the World ...

Palliative medicine specialist Michael Blaber talks to Helen Jones about how his role can make a difficult time for patients and their families a little bit better “I’ve always been fascinated by the ...

New administration has pledged massive reform but said little on how to achieve it The incoming US administration has signalled its intent to make large changes to the federal government’s approach to ...

Credit: Rowena Sheehan Far too many people dying and grieving remain undersupported and feared. Dying is “as natural and inevitable a transition as birth,” says Lucy Selman, an expert in dying and ...

Rich knowledge and practices of community and family based care for dying people in formerly colonised countries should inform a reimagination of palliative care globally, say Christian R Ntizimira ...

The UK government has announced plans to introduce a league table of NHS providers, with rewards for the leaders.1 Managers get more pay for better performance, but what do all the staff get who do ...

Israel has reportedly ordered the closure and evacuation of Kamal Adwan Hospital—one of the last semi-functioning hospitals left in northern Gaza—putting the lives of dozens of patients at risk, ...