We must learn from the successes and failures of the covid-19 vaccination programme if we are to prepare for the next pandemic, writes Samantha Vanderslott Vaccination has been so successful in ...

Identifying patients with chest pain that is of cardiac origin is crucial owing to the high mortality and morbidity of cardiovascular diseases. History, electrocardiogram, and cardiac biomarkers are ...

These are dark and fearful times at all US federal agencies, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is no exception. But at the NIH the fear is compounded by a mystery: why us? The disruptions ...

Cuts to disability benefits will worsen health and the economy The chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, will set out the UK government’s spending plans in her spring statement on 26 March.1 The ...

How does racism and inequality affect medical research? Wellcome Trust CEO John-Arne Røttingen sits with Victor Adebowale , chair of the NHS Confederation, to discuss ### Biographies John-Arne ...

An error in ranking applicants for radiology specialty training programmes has led to job offers for some doctors being retracted. Resident doctors who applied for radiology were sent the outcomes of ...

Thankfully not. Instead, this is good news. Surgeons have linked the move to a cashless society to a dramatic drop in children needing operations for accidentally swallowing small items such as coins.

The treatment of around 800 patients by a now suspended consultant paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is to be examined by a panel of expert clinicians, after an ...

The UK has confirmed a case of H5N1 influenza of avian origin in a sheep in Yorkshire, in a world first. The infection in the animal was identified through routine and repeated milk testing, which was ...

The US government has unleashed a whirlwind of public service cuts—those to international aid are already having life threatening consequences. Heather Rilkoff reports “What has happened has the ...

In 1983 surgeons across East Africa began to compare notes about a new disease, known colloquially as “slim,” which was ...

Lawyers for families whose babies the nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of killing or assaulting have cast doubt on the findings by an international panel of experts which appear to exonerate her.1 The ...