Funding uncertainty could weaken the UK’s higher education sector when it’s already under considerable strain, write Mishal S Khan and colleagues The UK health research funding landscape has changed ...
A bill promising to prioritise UK trained medical graduates for training places has become law. However, doctors’ leaders say questions remain over international medical graduates (IMGs) and the ...
Consultants have urged unions and regulators to protect their freedom of speech after high profile cases of doctors facing regulatory action. At the annual BMA consultants conference this week (4 ...
Health workers and facilities have come under attack across the Middle East as conflict engulfs the region, health leaders and charities warn. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ...
When the powers that be at King’s College Hospital told neurosurgeon Charles Polkey that it had decided to name a ward after him he was initially reluctant to accept the honour. He only relented after ...
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order aiming to increase domestic production of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate, sold as Roundup.1 Trump’s 18 February order comes under a ...
Chris Whitty is wrong to argue that debate on the PATHWAYS trial of puberty blockers in children should be left to specialists. The trial raises deep and important questions: ...
Corridor care has been officially defined by NHS England as patients spending “at least 45 minutes” in a clinically inappropriate area, as part of new measures to tackle the crisis. It has now written ...
It’s hard to imagine now, but coal was once king. Lorries delivered the coal that burned in the open fires we huddled around. We breathed in fumes, oblivious to the harm carried in the air, let alone ...
Too many non-experts are trying to influence the fate of the UK’s controversial puberty blocker trial and this is not helping the children involved, England’s chief medical officer has said. Last ...
As a young missionary doctor Bill Foege was sent with his wife and young son to eastern Nigeria: it was 1966 and the family ...
Ministers will be given the power to control NHS drug approvals despite warnings it could lead to political interference in decisions about funding new treatments. Proposals to allow ministers to ...