Afghanistan has made important strides in healthcare delivery and outcomes despite political instability, but withdrawal of international funding threatens progress and system collapse, write Sabera ...

This article introduces a series of papers on new guidance for the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach. Core GRADE was produced in response to the need ...

I’ve been sitting on my hands over the topic of assisted dying. Not because I’m scared, or irritated, or confused. I’ve purposely not spoken out owing to something much more serious. Because of my ...

The summaries of product characteristics (SmPCs; previously called data sheets) of certain drugs sometimes specify that they should be used “at the discretion of the physician,” often when advising ...

Central to the government's mission to improve health and fix the NHS is a “shift from sickness to prevention.”1 Yet key indicators suggest we are moving in the wrong direction. Healthy life ...

With another NHS reorganisation looming, any changes must strengthen the role of public health in the NHS, write Chad Byworth and colleagues The government’s decision to abolish NHS England while ...

The family of a doctor who took his own life within hours of receiving an email from the General Medical Council (GMC) has failed in their bid to sue the GMC for damages over his death.1 Sridharan ...

Vicky Evans played a leading role in developing the discipline of forensic medicine as an academic specialty, establishing a training programme as well as professional standards and competencies: ...

NHS outpatient care is “archaic, disjointed, and inefficient” and needs radical reform to bring down waiting lists, the Royal College of Physicians and the Patients Association have said.1 The two ...

This author describes what it is like to experience a loved one going through a psychotic episode and what support health professionals could have given her and her family. I was 10 when my sister ...

Shanghai’s municipal health authorities have issued a “negative list” of nine types of online behaviour that doctors should avoid, from unlawful advertising to criticising government policy, in what ...

First developed in the 1960s, tranexamic acid, an inhibitor of plasminogen activation and fibrinolysis, found niche applications in treating hereditary bleeding disorders. The indications for drugs ...