Proposals for a new centralised care record are under the spotlight, amid worries about China gaining access to GP records through UK Biobank. Stephen Armstrong reports On 15 April the Guardian ...

Thambirajah was born in Kuppilan, a village in the north of Sri Lanka. From these humble beginnings he showed relentless focus and commitment to become a doctor. He attended Skandavarodaya College, ...

Family planning clinics have sued the Trump administration for holding back around $65m (£49m; €57m) to provide contraception, testing for sexually transmitted infections and cervical cancer, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his article on the demise of NHS England, Abbasi says that “public health is a shadow of the force it once was.”1 This implies that public health, having returned to local ...

Abolishing NHS England and reducing staffing of integrated care boards by 50% might seem substantial, but the projected savings—around £500m annually if fully achieved1—would represent only a modest ...

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 ...

There are certain things you can do, and not do, to support a colleague with a stammer, Abi Rimmer hears Sophia Williams, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, Brighton and Hove Child and ...

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 ...

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 ...