The temptations of doctors to act inappropriately are many and well documented. They include, among others, the temptation to put financial gain before patient wellbeing, to cut corners to reduce ...

Around 2000 claimants in the UK are proposing to take legal action against Johnson & Johnson over claims that its talcum powder products caused cancer. The law firm KP Law has sent a letter before ...

The aim of an integrated neighbourhood team (INT) is to bring medical, nursing, and social care services to the patient’s ...

Cédric Lemarchand and colleagues highlight weaknesses in the evidence on efficacy and safety of hallucinogens and question ...

A grassroots food assistance programme in Brazil that grew out of the pandemic is now trying to counter obesity and other ...

When Labour came to power in July the new health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, promised a frank report on the ...

Of the various types of academic misdemeanours and felonies, perhaps plagiarism is the most difficult and complex to study and write about. Even defining it is difficult. The US Office of Research ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research When it comes to peripherally inserted lines for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial ...

Harmful industries still exert their influence over health professionals, academia, and health systems; robust change is ...

US president elect Donald Trump has nominated Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and television celebrity doctor to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a large federal agency ...

The response to the Olympian’s call for wider access to prostate cancer screening has been largely uncritical, Margaret McCartney finds Media coverage has been rightly sympathetic to Chris Hoy, one of ...

Chris and Elaine Brooks in a 1904 Quadrant motorbike Chris Brooks was dangling from the hoist of a Sea King helicopter over a ...