Byelaws governing hiring, firing, and treatment in the largest integrated US healthcare system, the Veterans Administration (VA), no longer contain text explicitly barring discrimination against staff ...

The BMA’s chair of council, Philip Banfield, has called for a new independent regulator of doctors, calling the General Medical Council “clueless” about how medicine is delivered and “contemptuous of ...

More than 400 Gazans have reportedly been killed by Israeli forces while trying to access food and other humanitarian aid in repeated attacks that have taken place since the US and Israeli backed Gaza ...

NHS staff must immediately stop using any artificial intelligence ambient scribe tools that have not been officially registered for medical use in the UK, NHS England has said. The use of ambient ...

Hamish was brought up in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, and was educated at St Bees boarding school in Cumbria. He studied ...

Many doctors who trained outside the UK are choosing to migrate to other countries over the UK for higher salaries, lower living costs, and a better quality of life, research has found. More than 3000 ...

North Korea’s claims to have been a rare success story in containing the coronavirus were fabricated, with the communist regime’s cover-up exacerbating a deadly public health crisis that left the ...

A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore around 800 US National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants it had cancelled. The grants related to studies with ...

Diallo and Rabinovich present a comprehensive account of China’s 70 year malaria control journey, highlighting critical funding shortages in endemic regions.1 These insights are particularly valuable ...

Consultant dermatologist Richard Motley speaks to Kathy Oxtoby about how refurbishing a vintage motorbike sparked his interest in skin For Richard Motley, training to become a dermatologist involves ...

Hem Laljee was born in 1932 in Mungeli, India. His mother was a teacher, his father a mechanic, and from a young age he had a dream of becoming a doctor. He travelled hundreds of miles across India to ...

I’ve taught medical ethics to clinicians who are facing disciplinary action. Some are under investigation by their employer or regulator, others are suspended, and a few have been struck off but seek ...