Felicity Reynolds, aged 17 and diagnosed with polio, found herself sharing a room with two girls in iron lungs. Fortunately, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

I recently attended an educational event where I’d been asked to spend the afternoon teaching some of my favourite subjects, such as uncertainty and complexity. The morning was devoted to hardcore ...