Writer Ivan Illich foresaw out current global polycrisis 50 years ago, which he blamed on us succumbing to industrial tools, not least in “health” care, writes Richard Smith . We need to maximise ...

Increasing production does not necessarily translate to better social outcomes We face a bleak reality. We are in the middle of a mass extinction event driven by human economic activity crossing ...

The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has sued a New York State doctor for allegedly prescribing medication abortion pills to a Texas woman.1 Margaret Daley Carpenter, a board certified family ...

The number of people seeking medically assisted dying in Canada continued to rise last year, but the rate of growth slowed, government data show.1 Figures for 2023 show that 19 660 Canadians requested ...

A new approach for teaching clinical skills At the heart of the practice of medicine is the tenet “to do good or to do no harm.”1 Fundamental to achieving this objective is continuing professional ...

David Nunan and Jeff Aronson suggest that formal criteria are needed to determine eligibility for posthumous authorship and for dealing with associated ethical problems Posthumous authorship poses ...

The Italian government has cancelled fines for people who refused to have covid-19 vaccinations. Italy has been severely affected by covid-19, with over 190 000 deaths since the virus was first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...