A 24 year old student who was visiting his hometown of Malappuram, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, has become the ...

For Peter Cole, an anaesthetist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, the life of a conventional hospital consultant would ...

Raised expectations of treatment effect do not justify the cost The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency ...

Ann Robinson reviews the latest research Many women experience genitourinary symptoms during and after the menopause, but ...

CDC Jean Kakuru Biyambo, a father of six from the Muja camp for internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, gestures outside Goma general hospital, where he is receiving ...

The number of working age people in England and Wales receiving health related benefits has risen sharply over the past four years, an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has shown.1 ...

Poor care in maternity services is being “normalised,” the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has warned as it urges the NHS and the government to act to prevent further harm to women and babies.1 In a ...

The BMA and the UK government have finally agreed about something—two things, in fact: a new pay deal and the need for major reform of the NHS. After 44 days of strike action over the past two years, ...

I love the new academic year. It’s full of possibilities and new routines. I experienced 20 consecutive years of my ...

Architects of a radical plan to improve people’s health and cut long term sickness say that this could revive Britain’s ...

Findings may buy time but highlight government policy tensions Ara Darzi’s independent review into the performance of the NHS ...

Six large commercial publishers of peer reviewed academic journals are facing a proposed class action lawsuit filed in the US ...