A consultant pathologist has been suspended from the UK medical register for 12 months after spilling beer on a junior female colleague’s cleavage at a work party and licking it off her breasts. Mark ...
Systemic failings impacted hundreds of deaf children and their families as a result of missed diagnoses, inconsistent service quality, and a lack of national oversight, a damning report concludes.1 ...
Martin Whyte, a paediatric trainee who was suspended from the BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee in April 20231 over tweets that referred to “Jew banker goblins” and included “gas the jews,” has been ...
A health minister has launched a scathing attack on the BMA’s leaders, accusing them of appearing “determined to turn their organisation into a farce” in an escalating dispute with the government. In ...
Canada, and by extension all the Americas, has been stripped of its measles-free certification by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). This means there is no region in the world certified as ...
A senior histopathologist died of an overdose after being given the wrong medicine by staff at the NHS trust where he worked. Ray McMahon, a professor of gastrointestinal pathology at the University ...
Medical students are experiencing “concerning levels of sexual violence, including criminal sexual offences” while studying, a new report suggests.1 A report from the BMA, produced in collaboration ...
The UK is set to make global history with a bill promising a “smoke-free” generation. What the legislation says on vaping calls into question its role in smoking cessation, as well as its impact on ...
Questions about the safety of vernakalant remain The incidence of atrial fibrillation has increased globally, in part because of modifiable risk factors.1 Acute atrial fibrillation, especially at a ...
Zoltán Kaló and colleagues consider approaches to counter systemic inequities and power imbalances arising from discrete national policies for drug pricing and reimbursement Current pricing mechanisms ...
Tarang Sharma and colleagues argue for increased collaboration across public and private sectors—internationally and with patients—in drug assessment and managed entry agreements to support equitable ...
Stark socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities” in the mortality of babies admitted to NHS neonatal units have been reported in new research. The study, carried out at Liverpool University and published ...