WHO’s pandemic treaty is an attempt to learn from our past successes and failures, but it falls short in several areas. With key revisions, the pandemic treaty could be an accord that fosters ...

How we train future clinicians has the potential to radically and sustainably improve healthcare for everyone. Current medical education has an overt biomedical focus that does not engage enough on ...

UK doctors who have returned from Gaza have described the situation as “absolutely dire,” recalling blood soaked beds, emaciated colleagues and patients, and doctors forced to perform brain surgery on ...

Paediatric units are operating with an average 20% shortfall of resident doctors and trainees on shifts, according to a report from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).1 These ...

New guidance aims to improve consistency, reporting, and respect for people who have died before publication of their work Preparing academic work for publication can be a lengthy process.

Evidence based guidelines work but are not universally applied Publication of the House of Lords’ report Preterm Birth: Reducing Risks and Improving Lives 1 coincides with the realisation that the UK ...

Chamber music can spur us to reflect on the experience of families and friends when a patient dies—but also to celebrate and grieve for loved ones of our own, says Desmond O’Neill To grieve is not ...

People in England and Wales are expected to live fewer years in good health than they did a decade previously, show data from the Office for National Statistics.1 The latest ONS figures reflect the ...

The BMA’s Scottish General Practitioners Committee (SGPC) has set out a list of demands for the Scottish government to avert plans to ballot GPs on industrial action. The committee has produced a ...

The global community must advocate to sustain midwifery training and services in Afghanistan, says Sabera Turkmani Afghanistan has long had the highest maternal and neonatal mortality in the world.

The UK government has announced an indefinite ban on the use of puberty blockers for treating under 18s with gender dysphoria, after the Commission on Human Medicines advised that continuing to allow ...

Food and climate might not seem connected at first glance. However, the food system drives one-third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is the main cause of biodiversity loss globally.1 ...