Europe’s health commissioner has warned that “unnecessary clinical trials” and bureaucracy are “not sending the right message” to the pharmaceutical industry, while other leaders stressed the need to ...

As a patient and public involvement contributor and a woman of colour, I (AG) have been part of various research panels over the past couple of years. I welcome Walker and colleagues’ call to ...

Jim O’Neill, acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has said that the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine should be broken up into three separate ...

A woman in her late 50s presented with a two month history of a scattered macular rash on her back, which progressively merged into painful purpura. She had a history of systemic lupus erythematosus ...

A woman in her 20s presented to the emergency department with a one day history of severe lower abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding. Her previous menstrual period was 5 weeks earlier. She was not ...

Many characteristics track from early life into adulthood. Tall children, for example, tend to grow into tall adults. The same seems to be true for raised blood pressure and its consequences. In a ...

The South African Medical Association (SAMA) says its Israeli equivalent should be barred from the World Medical Association (WMA) ahead of the organisation’s annual meeting.1 It comes as SAMA signed ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Multicancer detection (MCD) tests are available to buy—although may set you back more than a thousand pounds. Websites offering the tests, that usually detect ...

John Goldsmith overcame a tumultuous childhood and adolescence, first as a refugee from Nazi Germany and later as an interned “enemy alien,” to become an early pioneer in kidney dialysis, setting up ...

Amid disputes over pay and training places, the narrative of an exodus of UK doctors has taken hold—but do the data back this up? Elisabeth Mahase investigates Years of industrial action1 and numerous ...

In the 1990s, when there were few female Indian doctors in Scotland, Rupasree Tewari wore a sari to work every day, describing it as her version of a business suit. Although she found attitudes ...

Commission will “accelerate” use in NHS A UK government commission has been launched to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) across the NHS.1 It promises to “immediately review tech that’s being ...