Medical organisations have welcomed an initial six week ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip that should end 15 months of war and allow the territory’s broken health system to be rebuilt. On 15 ...

All US women over 65 should be screened for osteoporosis to identify those needing treatment to prevent fractures, the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended.1 The task force also ...

Plans to reform elective care must avoid the trappings of over-investigation and fragmented and inappropriate care, writes Ella Hubbard “We need more activity, and less waste,” says Wes Streeting in ...

Sustained funding is needed for screening and care, but industry must also shoulder costs Alcohol is widely available and drunk by around 80% of adults in the UK. No safe level of alcohol consumption ...

Providing calorie information labels on menus and food products has a small but important effect at a population level on the choices that people make, a large Cochrane review has concluded.1 UK ...

The fourth module of the UK covid-19 inquiry is examining vaccines and therapeutics. Jacqui Wise summarises the latest evidence Giving evidence to the inquiry on 15 January, Jean Rossiter, who set up ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has withdrawn from a key hospital in Sudan’s capital Khartoum following months of violent attacks on patients and staff.1 The aid organisation announced the “very ...

Jemima Sneddon and Alexander Mafi argue that last minute changes to specialty training recruitment criteria are creating unfair and inappropriate assessments of doctors applying for training posts As ...

Has treating patients in corridors and cloakrooms become “normalised”? Jacqui Wise reports A nurse forced to change an incontinent patient with dementia beside a vending machine and a patient dying ...

Decision to treat surgically should be weighed against the rate of complications The introduction of organised cervical screening programmes has enabled the early diagnosis and treatment of cervical ...

The true number of people who have died directly from war in Gaza is around 41% higher than the official figures reported by Palestine’s health ministry, a study published in the Lancet has found.1 ...

While he was a senior house officer in Ashington, Northumberland, Mike Snow developed open tuberculosis. He had a considerable amount of time off work, including 100 days of intramuscular injections ...