Most of us have favourite questions that we like to ask when consulting with patients or that we’re fond of teaching to medical students and resident doctors. One popular question many GPs teach their ...

This piece comes with a trigger warning. We used to avoid talking about cancer, menopause, periods, or other stigmatised topics—adding to feelings of shame and limiting our understanding. This remains ...

George Delfas was born in Athens and qualified at the top of his class in medicine at the University of Athens. After two years of national service, largely with the Greek delegation to NATO in Izmir, ...

Meena was born in Mantuvi, a tiny island off the east coast of Sri Lanka, in 1930, the youngest of four children. She was delivered by her father, a doctor, whom she revered and adored. In 1946 she ...

A major expansion of the private sector’s role in providing elective NHS care in England risks diverting finite staff and resources from elsewhere in the service, experts have warned. As part of a ...

The union representing physician associates (PAs) is supporting legal action by scores of members who lost their jobs after the BMA and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) published ...

John Rogers was born in Bedford to David and Elsie Rogers. John’s parents were born and bred in Wales and he had a lifelong pride in his Welsh connections. He was educated at Bedford School and then ...

We are spending countless hours on electronic health records scrolling through layers of data to find the information we need, receiving vital information through fax machines, and listening to ...

The US has reported its first human death from avian influenza H5N1 in a person who had been admitted to hospital in Louisiana after being exposed to a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds.1 ...

Charles was born in London and was evacuated to Biggin Hill during the second world war. He studied medicine at University College London, then worked on the house staff at University College Hospital ...

As medical statisticians, we welcome revisions to the Declaration of Helsinki emphasising the importance of appropriate methods to reduce research waste.1 The declaration now states that rigorous ...

The 1990s were characterised by a rise in teenage smoking rates. Nostalgia for that decade shouldn’t see us undo progress against this public health threat, writes Caroline Cerny The 1990s are firmly ...