Working in regions where resources are scarce and infrastructure is poor means that staff are constantly thinking of ...

Scientists are to compare tumour specimens from the 1950s to those from today to try to identify what is driving the increase ...

Girish Chandra was born in the town of Balrampur, in Uttar Pradesh, India. His family lived in relative poverty and he won a ...

Most of the government’s newly built NHS neighbourhood health centres (NHCs) will be funded by private finance, a health minister has confirmed. Karin Smyth also said that around 40% of the centres to ...

An artificial intelligence is now allowed legally to participate in clinical decisions over prescription renewals. The approval, made in the US state of Utah, is a global first, the company behind the ...

Obesity is a chronic relapsing condition, and treatment options need to reflect this reality, write Sam West, Dimitrios A Koutoukidis, and Susan A Jebb The use of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) ...

Beardsell calls for a shift “from defensive practice to clinical courage.”1 It used to be that doctors were paid for their opinion—for balancing experience, probability, and uncertainty. With limited ...

Patients waiting in hospital corridors because of overcrowding have collapsed and faced treatment delays as staff couldn’t see them, the NHS’s safety watchdog has warned. The Health Services Safety ...

A £40.5m programme to train doctors from overseas at a Midlands NHS trust has been discontinued after an independent review raised a host of red flags. These included failures to ensure that doctors ...

How do we resolve the great challenges to health and wellbeing? Welcome to a BMJ special issue of resolutions. Our aim is to begin each year with a range of short essays on one of these great ...

Helen Issler was born in an ambulance on the way to the Military Hospital in Deolali, near Mumbai in India, delivered by her father who was a medical officer in the British Army. Her parents were ...

Responsibility for providing fit notes should be moved away from general practices to encourage more people back into work, a ...