Metformin produced a moderate reduction in the pain of people with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity, according to a small randomised controlled trial. The study authors say that the ...

Medical students in Sudan are facing violence, instability, and disruptions to their education. As two years have passed since the start of the war, urgent international support is needed more than ...

A call for mandatory cancer warning labels on alcohol has raised questions on both sides of the US-Canada border. Jasmine Ryu Won Kang reports Data show that alcohol related deaths increased by 18% in ...

Pete was the youngest of three sons of psychiatrists Harry and Carol Crow and grew up in a small village outside Bristol. He graduated from Sheffield in 1981, where he was a popular student and forged ...

US cuts to international aid are coming at the worst possible time in the fight against malaria, in which Africa faces its worst challenge in a quarter century. Frank Burkybile reports on a community ...

The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)—the US’s largest and longest study of women’s health—will continue after President Donald Trump’s administration abruptly changed course, having announced that it ...

Qiyong Liu and colleagues revisit the strategies and measures adopted in China to control and eliminate malaria and discuss what can be learnt from its elimination Malaria is a mosquito-borne ...

Shortages of pharmaceutical products have been with us for many years. The earliest example of which I am aware dates back to 1942. Currently over 100 products are in shortage, including hormone ...

The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) has become the latest and most high profile journal to receive a letter from Edward Martin Jr, a Republican activist who was appointed US attorney for ...

We must unite against harmful cuts and work towards a society that values Disabled people as equal citizens, writes Fazilet Hadi I have been a Disabled person since losing my sight in my teenage years ...

Practecal, a phase 2b-3 randomised controlled trial which identified a new treatment regimen for drug resistant tuberculosis (TB), cost €33.9m (£28.95n; $38.54m), with an average cost of €61 460 per ...

Short term trials with surrogate measures instead of hard outcomes are often used to study chronic diseases. The effects of an intervention may, however, take time to develop and persist after ...