Doctors, nurses, and medical auxiliaries throughout Bolivia went on strike for six days in July over an unpaid annual bonus considered a crucial part of their income. The strikes—which led to the ...

What you need to know A parent visits their general practitioner with their 1 year old child, who is due to receive several vaccinations. During the appointment, the parent asks whether it is OK to ...

Stokel-Walker summarises the artificial intelligence (AI) tools being used to record doctor-patient conversations.1 I encourage clinicians who are using ambient scribing to familiarise themselves with ...

Unsafe conditions and abusive practices are systemic in immigration detention facilities, writes Vicki B Gaubeca “We had to sleep on a bus for two nights, sitting on hard seats and shackled,” and they ...

A Nuffield Trust analysis has shown that resident doctors’ pay is still behind 2010-11 levels in real terms. The think tank published the data as NHS England’s chief executive said that doctors should ...

Patients need reassurance that they can trust healthcare professionals to feel truly safe, writes Liz Sutton Patient safety as an academic and applied discipline has arisen as the result of evidence ...

The UK’s drugs regulator has introduced new regulations that will enable hospitals to perform the final manufacturing steps of personalised gene therapy treatments. The Medicines and Healthcare ...

Doctors, healthcare workers, and aid staffers are now collapsing from starvation in Gaza and risk death queueing for food, humanitarian organisations have warned. The death toll at and around ...

The world’s wellness industry is worth trillions of dollars. The non-profit Global Wellness Institute claims that the wellness industry is worth four times as much as the drug industry.1 That’s a lot ...

Pretty much. Since January, health leaders globally have been calling for all alcoholic beverages to carry prominent warning labels to highlight cancer risk. First the US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy ...

Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of major sports tournaments has long raised eyebrows.1 The relationship between sport and junk food corporations continues to warrant scrutiny, not just on the global stage, ...

As a medical student, some of the best learning happens at the bedside: patients are some of our most important teachers. But learning from patients doesn't stop when we graduate. Often, these cases ...