The trial of the French surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, which opened on 24 February and is thought to be France’s biggest ever paedophilia case, raises the question of how he was allowed to continue ...

The editorial emphasising that “adult social care reform cannot wait” covers the finance and policy issues clearly but fails to mention that it is essential—and possible—to reduce the need for social ...

Canada has bought half a million vaccines designed to prevent H5N1 avian influenza in humans. The vaccines are intended to stamp out any potential human transmission of the disease by immunising those ...

Consultant psychiatrist John Mulinga talks to Erin Dean about how the kindness of a senior colleague inspired him to support doctors in training throughout his career John Mulinga started working in ...

Michael King (standing) with Elspeth and colleagues Michael King had been working as a surgeon in a day care ward in Worthing for two years when he began to get itchy feet. While “the work was ...

The 24 February 2025 marks the third anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine. This grim milestone coincides with a radical shift in American policy towards Ukraine and the rest of ...

A former medical student has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of killing three people in Rotterdam. The suspect, named only as Fouad L, was found guilty of murder, arson, ...

Tactical nuclear weapons pose a threat to life and health that we cannot ignore Overt threats to strike with nuclear weapons are rising with alarming frequency.12 Geopolitical attitudes have shifted ...

Stark inequalities exist in the number and distribution of ethnic minority doctors in specialty roles, writes Sethina Watson In my region, including me, I know of only three black anaesthetists who ...

Discrimination experienced by doctors from ethnic minorities has been exposed in a survey carried out by the BMA in Scotland.1 It found that almost two thirds of respondents have experienced or ...

Do negative findings demand action? Despite the common use of spine injections in pain clinics around the world, it has been hard to come up with evidence that strongly supports this practice when ...

Nicaragua’s health ministry has confirmed that 30 people have been infected by the New World screwworm ( Cochliomyia ...