A report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Doctors of the World UK (DOTW) has called for the closure of Wethersfield, a site that houses male asylum seekers, because of its unsuitability and the ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research There’s certainly a gap in the market for an effective third or fourth line antihypertensive. A trial of lorundrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, found a ...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has said that it cannot support proposed legislation in its current form that would make assisted dying legal in England and Wales. The college issued a briefing on ...

This man in his early 40s from rural China presented to the emergency department with a six day history of an oedematous, ulcerated, and pruritic rash on his right upper limb, extending progressively ...

I visited China for the first time. I was there to teach narrative medicine—what health professionals can learn through listening to people’s stories and how much difference this can make to medical ...

In saying that the effect of smartphones and social media on children is “not clear cut,”1 and thus no action is needed, Goodyear and colleagues seem to be using the criminal justice standard of ...

In early April 2020, staff at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust gathered to prepare for the wave of covid-19 patients they knew were coming their way. The UK’s first lockdown had been announced a ...

Higginson and Ramjeeawon emphasise the importance of timely, multiprofessional, skilled palliative care to improve outcomes for patients and carers.1 They touch on the need to ensure that the ...

BMA ballots members on strike action over pay The BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee in England will ballot its members on taking industrial action over pay, stating that “no doctor today is worth less ...

The UK government has committed to introducing long awaited reforms to modernise the regulation of doctors and other healthcare professionals in the current parliament. Karin Smyth, minister for ...

All governments should tax heated tobacco products (HTPs) in line with traditional cigarettes to avoid effectively subsidising the tobacco industry, a study has concluded.1 HTPs—which tobacco ...

France’s Defender of Rights, a constitutional authority of the French government but independent of it, has alleged widespread discrimination in the country’s healthcare provision. A report by the ...