Disability advocates and the family of a tetraplegic patient in Quebec are calling for an independent inquiry after a four day stay on an emergency department stretcher left him with a pressure ulcer ...

Hristio Boytchev reveals how an ambitious deal between a leading medical education provider and the tobacco industry collapsed this week The medical education provider Medscape has bowed to pressure ...

Approved names of medicines, later known as British Approved Names, were introduced in the UK in the 1940s, as part of wartime efforts to ensure the supply of important medicines, including ...

With a record number of UK deaths from alcohol and drinking rates high among children, Bryan Christie examines the data and what is being done to reverse the trends Campaigners are calling for action ...

Badly needed support for children’s mental health in England should be focused on schools with the creation of “one stop shop” information hubs, according to experts. A new report1 calls for a radical ...

Equitable access to fertility care must be recognised as a human right so that it can be better balanced with other societal needs, say Silke Dyer , David Adamson , Marcia Inhorn, and Fernando ...

An anaesthesiologist in Dallas, Texas, could face a prison sentence of 190 years after he was convicted of injecting a deadly cocktail of drugs into intravenous (IV) saline bags, leading to cardiac ...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on 24 April that emergency abortions should be allowed in states with strict abortion bans. An emergency abortion is a rare procedure carried out to save a ...

A “culture of blame shifting and unaccountability” in the NHS has led to the service continuing to use systems that criminalise people in distress during mental health crises, a report by the charity ...

This malign industry must not be allowed to influence clinicians’ learning In a troubling development for tobacco control, Medscape, a continuing education website for health professionals, was ...

Henry Miller, the witty and now dead neurologist from Newcastle, said that one of the great challenges for 21st century medical historians would be to explain the obsession with psychoanalysis in the ...

Diabetes UK is to go ahead with its partnership with the weight loss company Slimming World, despite concern expressed by its advisory groups and others representing people with diabetes. The charity ...