This year has seen a double dose of optimism in the field of HIV prevention. First, on 20 June 2024, came the results of the Purpose-1 trial in South Africa and Uganda.1 This randomised controlled ...

Creating workplace boundaries can be extremely challenging.1 Most of us go into the profession because we want to help others, and throughout training we are often rewarded when we overextend ...

The Labour government has an opportunity to not only reverse the harmful immigration legislation introduced by the previous government, but implement reforms to protect the mental health of those ...

Rimmer reports four doctors’ views on saying no to patients.1 The reasons for medicine becoming a service industry are the lack of time and potential extra workload associated with requests from ...

Rimmer discusses ways to tackle the difficulties that doctors face in refusing to fully satisfy their patients’ needs and desires.1 Perhaps we should not say “no,” but “why?” Exploring patients’ ideas ...

When trusted professionals speak up, people listen Over the past century, Earth’s average temperature has risen by more than 1.3°C, a clear sign that something is wrong. Ambient temperatures are ...

The maternal death rate in the UK is at its highest for 20 years, with thrombosis and thromboembolism the leading cause of death, according to a major report. The latest MBRRACE-UK report, Saving ...

Ara Darzi’s report on the NHS finds much key infrastructure seriously degraded.1 Crucially, it identifies weakness in leadership, management structures, and capacity among the main drivers of ...

The UK based drug firm GSK has agreed to pay up to $2.2bn (£1.7bn; €2bn) to settle claims that the heartburn drug ranitidine (previously marketed in the US as Zantac) caused cancer. The deal, ...

Increasing the use of vaccines could help tackle the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by reducing the need for antibiotics by 22% globally—or 2.5 billion defined daily doses—every year ...

This week the inquiry heard further testimony from doctors and patients about their experiences during the pandemic. Matthew Limb and Jacqui Wise report Learning that the first 10 doctors in the UK to ...

Physician associates (PAs) must only see patients in general practice who have been triaged by a GP and only undertake work delegated to them, and agreed with, their named GP supervisor, says new ...