Catherine Shteynberg calls for health professionals to use clear language when delivering a diagnosis of incurable cancer Delivering the devastating news of an incurable cancer diagnosis is one of the ...

With recent cuts to funding linked to covid-19 and pandemic readiness, the US Department of Health and Human Services has proclaimed it “will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to ...

Antiracism should be an established part of healthcare education—an idea explored in Majid’s article.1 Discriminatory biases often perpetuate as senior doctors pass them down to their trainees who ...

Lawrence was born in Burnley and raised in Preston. He attended Newman College and completed arts A levels before a pre-med year and then a medical degree in Manchester, where he very much squeezed ...

General practice leaders in Lancashire and South Cumbria have secured an additional £14m to level up local enhanced services (LES) funding across their patch after some practices indicated that they ...

An NHS programme designed to improve safety in maternity care and help prevent brain injuries during childbirth is set to be rolled out in England. The government said that the Avoiding Brain Injuries ...

AbdulRahman Sadeq/MSF A child with burns injuries plays in the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Atmeh, Idlib, in north west Syria. After more than 13 years of war in Syria and the ...

Frank was born in London and attended Chigwell School, before being evacuated to Buckinghamshire, where he attended Berkhamsted School. He set his mind on becoming a doctor and applied to the London ...

James Douglas was born in Portadown in 1938, the son of James Douglas, an army padre killed in Normandy in 1944, and Annie Hildegard Douglas. After attending Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, James ...

Sweeping changes to immigration rules could cut the “lifeline” of international recruitment for the UK care sector and negatively impact the NHS, leaders have warned. The government unveiled its ...

The destruction of Sudan’s health system is a preventable catastrophe, write Abdihamid Warsame, Kazuki Shimizu, Shible Sahbani , and Ahmed Zouiten After two years of conflict Sudan’s health system is ...

The World Health Organization’s pandemic agreement represents a powerful commitment to global health and security, writes Nina Schwalbe In April in Geneva, as the US withdrew from engagement in global ...