It can be hard to know how to respond when asked to undertake a task that isn’t part of your role, but there are ways to deal with it, Abi Rimmer hears Ashley Simpson, medical education fellow, NHS ...

An energy crisis has seen regular power blackouts throughout South America. Andersson Boscán reports from Ecuador where the situation is costing lives in both hospitals and homes Gabriela Alvaro’s ...

A group of UnitedHealth Group shareholders has asked the company to report costs and patient risks related to denial of medical care. The demand comes in the wake of the murder of Brian Thompson, head ...

Obstetrician and gynaecologist Rupert Fawdry was an original thinker, dismissed by some as a Luddite and acclaimed by others as a maverick genius. If computers had been invented first, he suggested, ...

The proposed constitutional amendment would be a massive setback for reproductive rights and health in Brazil, write Michelle Fernandez , Luísa Fernandes , and Melania de Amorim In Brazil, a proposed ...

More than 18 000 US doctors have signed a letter calling on the Senate to reject Robert F Kennedy Jr as the federal secretary of health and human services. The letter, organised by the Committee to ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published draft guidance aimed at improving the performance of pulse oximeters across all skin colours, following research suggesting the medical devices ...

Ministers have announced an independent commission on adult social care in England, to inform the creation of a national care service. Elisabeth Mahase looks at what we know The government’s ...

Eco-anxiety” is growing worldwide, especially among young people.1 Considerable anxiety about the climate crisis is rational, particularly for young people, for whom even 2100 is a tangible date. Deep ...

One of England’s largest hospital trusts has ordered an independent review of its international medical training programmes because of concerns, first highlighted in The BMJ , that overseas doctors ...

The 10 winners of the 2024 Shkreli awards, given annually to the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in US healthcare, have been announced by the Lown Institute, a non-profit US think tank.

I agree with Wolf’s concerns about transfusion in sickle cell disease.12 In developed countries, where the blood donor pool is predominantly white and lacking the Ro antigen, transfusion for sickle ...