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Optimising inhaled therapy for patients with asthma
What you need to know A 30 year old woman attends her general practice for her annual asthma review. She says her asthma is well controlled, but she has been issued two inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) ...
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When I use a word . . . Linguistic barbarisms in medicine
Henry W Fowler, author of Modern English Usage (1926), and Wilson Follett, author of Modern American Usage (1966), both included “barbarisms” as headwords in their guides. Fowler defined them as ...
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Two US women died because of a lack of abortion care, report says
US vice president Kamala Harris has condemned the “healthcare crisis” brought on by former president Donald Trump’s abortion bans after reports that two women died “preventable” deaths because they ...
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Sixty seconds on . . . NHS reforms
This time it’s the Policy Exchange think tank calling for NHS England to be abolished as an independent commissioning body and for its key functions to be delivered by an NHS management board within ...
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Leprosy: Jordan becomes first country to eliminate disease
The World Health Organization has officially verified Jordan as the first country in the world to have eliminated leprosy.1 Also known as Hansen’s disease, leprosy still occurs in more than 120 ...
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UK must act to protect children from risks of air pollution, say paediatricians
The UK government must take stronger action to protect children from the serious health harms of air pollution, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has urged. In an updated ...
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Partha Kar: We need honest, sensible conversation about physician associates—not false promises
The plan to introduce and further expand physician associates through the NHS workforce plan has become a clinical, financial, and strategic mess. The royal colleges—including the Royal College of ...
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Abolish NHS England and overhaul management to improve NHS productivity, says think tank
Ara Darzi’s landmark diagnosis of the NHS blamed misjudged fiddling with NHS structures, headquarters, and regulatory functions for helping to plunge the health service into its current parlous state.
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Are India’s regulatory gaps leaving patients with substandard mental health counsellors?
A severe shortage of qualified clinical and counselling psychologists is undermining mental health in India. Charu Bahri reports When Amit Malik* from Bengaluru in south India consulted a ...
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Nipah virus: Kerala reports second death in four months
A 24 year old student who was visiting his hometown of Malappuram, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, has become the ...
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Lecanemab’s benefits are too small and uncertain
Raised expectations of treatment effect do not justify the cost The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency ...
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Peter Cole: anaesthetist and researcher who highlighted the dangers of passive smoking years before it was considered a public health threat
For Peter Cole, an anaesthetist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, the life of a conventional hospital consultant would ...