Resident doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in their campaign for full pay restoration. In response to the result, the BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee urged the ...

A former Shetland GP has been struck off the UK medical register after a medical practitioners tribunal found that he was aggressive towards two female doctors and broke the rules on examining ...

Stevens M, Brimblecombe N, Gowen S, Skyer R, Moriarty J. Young carers’ experiences of services and support: What is helpful and how can support be improved? PLOS One 2024;19:e0300551. To read the full ...

India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has strongly refuted claims—including from state ministers—that a spate of sudden deaths among younger adults have been caused by the covid-19 vaccine.

Asking people with type 2 diabetes their language and care preferences is vital to optimise outcomes globally, says Heather Koga As the US writer Ingrid Bengis said, “Words are a form of action, ...

Empowering, participatory approaches are needed to improve quality of life and health outcomes for people with dementia, write Emily Ong and colleagues Dementia is the seventh leading cause of death ...

The government is to streamline the regulation of patient safety in England after a review concluded that there is “considerable duplication and overlap” between different organisations. The review, ...

Empowering people with obesity is essential to reduce stigma and facilitate co-creation of more equitable and effective policies and programmes, write María Eugenia Anselmi, Johanna Ralston , and ...

Healthcare must be rebuilt to embed lived experience in design and delivery to tackle the structural homophobia and transphobia that contribute to poorer outcomes among gay and trans people, writes ...

Time to see lived experience as expertise, and make inclusive engagement business as usual It is indisputable that people should have a say in the healthcare decisions that affect them. “Lived ...

Bernard was a lifelong Mancunian and the first member of his family to attend university. His enthusiasm and aptitudes meant he struggled initially to choose a specialty, but he never regretted ...

New World Health Organization data show that an estimated six million deaths are caused each year in the Americas by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), 43% more than at the turn of the century. Most of ...