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 ...

Scotland has taken a step closer to legalising assisted dying after an emotional five hour parliamentary debate and a close vote. But the bill proposing the changes faces further hurdles and ...

Artificial intelligence is making significant inroads into healthcare, diagnostics, workflows, and even medical education. But can AI truly take on the role of a teacher in medical training? “Can AI ...

Reframing beliefs about illness, along with specialist rehabilitation, can help recovery in people with severe ME/CFS, write Alastair Miller, Fiona Symington, Paul Garner, and Maria Pedersen Myalgic ...

Catherine Shteynberg calls for health professionals to use clear language when delivering a diagnosis of incurable cancer Delivering the devastating news of an incurable cancer diagnosis is one of the ...

With recent cuts to funding linked to covid-19 and pandemic readiness, the US Department of Health and Human Services has proclaimed it “will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to ...

Antiracism should be an established part of healthcare education—an idea explored in Majid’s article.1 Discriminatory biases often perpetuate as senior doctors pass them down to their trainees who ...

Lawrence was born in Burnley and raised in Preston. He attended Newman College and completed arts A levels before a pre-med year and then a medical degree in Manchester, where he very much squeezed ...

Objectives To investigate the effects of overwork on brain structure to better understand its impact on workers’ cognitive ...

General practice leaders in Lancashire and South Cumbria have secured an additional £14m to level up local enhanced services (LES) funding across their patch after some practices indicated that they ...

An NHS programme designed to improve safety in maternity care and help prevent brain injuries during childbirth is set to be rolled out in England. The government said that the Avoiding Brain Injuries ...

AbdulRahman Sadeq/MSF A child with burns injuries plays in the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Atmeh, Idlib, in north west Syria. After more than 13 years of war in Syria and the ...