Are doctors good patients? Or are they a danger to themselves? Doctors, as legend has it, are apt to downplay or mistreat their own symptoms. Stories abound of cardiologists self-diagnosing heartburn ...

Ministers want to examine the impact of the weight loss drug tirzepatide on people’s health outcomes and employment status. Elisabeth Mahase looks at how the study will work A new partnership between ...

These multi-coloured crystals were found in the vitreous cavity of the left eye of a woman in her 40s at a routine diabetic screening examination (fig 1). She was asymptomatic but had a history of ...

The number of health workers and patients killed or injured in Lebanon since hostilities in the region escalated last month is more than 110, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. WHO said ...

One in 20 women across seven sub-Saharan African countries are at risk of death because of complications during pregnancy or childbirth, a study1 has found. The international study of the lifetime ...

Nearly five years after the pandemic started, Marianne Guenot investigates whether current antigenic tests still work against the mutated virus The summer of 2024 has seen a wave of covid-19 ...

Ann Robinson reviews the latest research As the popular saying goes, there are two certainties in life, death and taxes. To these two, I’d add another: flu. And yet, persuading our most vulnerable ...

Specialist, associate specialist, and specialty (SAS) doctors and locally employed (LE) doctors in the NHS are much less likely than other doctors to have legal representation when facing misconduct ...

The UK government has set out a bold mission to improve the nation’s health. This is an urgent and essential task, not just to improve individual wellbeing, but because poor health is a huge drain on ...

Almost 200 leading doctors, professional bodies, and charities are calling on the chancellor to use the forthcoming budget to introduce a “polluter pays” levy on the tobacco industry. In an open ...

Brian Wilkey was born in Bristol in 1934 and attended Bristol Grammar School before going to Exeter College, Oxford. He graduated in 1958. He continued his medical career at University College ...

Demonising cannabis has not reduced harms and has kept the drug from patients who might benefit from it, say David Nutt and Lucy Stafford in this 2024 Maudsley debate. But Laura Stack and Robin Murray ...