The more that female foundation doctors see of senior female doctors during placements, the more likely they are to choose to train in that specialty, research has found.1 Researchers from the ...

The NHS in England has delivered four times as many measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines to 5 to 25 year olds in the first 12 weeks of 2024 (75 499) as it did in the same period in 2023 (18 433), the ...

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 ...

The long term harms of alcohol are being minimised in industry funded education, find Madlen Davies and Hristio Boytchev Universities and schools are being urged to join a growing movement in Ireland ...

Plans to expand one of the world’s most permissive assisted dying laws have been postponed by the Canadian government, reigniting debate about the country’s stance. Sammy Chown reports On 29 February, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...