Greater access to multidisciplinary bereavement services is essential Globally, more than 6.2 million children die before the age of 19 each year, with many of these deaths occurring suddenly or ...

Doctors are seeking public support for a campaign to increase GP funding in Scotland and warn that industrial action may follow if the Scottish government fails to respond. BMA Scotland said that ...

An executive order made by President Donald Trump on 23 April seeks to reform higher education accreditation in the US. The order directs the secretaries of education and health to review accreditors ...

The Royal College of Physicians has said it is “disappointing” that new General Medical Council guidance does not state that physician associates (PAs) must be supervised by a senior doctor. The BMA ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...