A who’s who guide to the major health roles in Donald Trump’s second presidency Donald Trump began his second stint as president of the United States on 20 January 2025. His appointments to major ...

Government measures to reduce health harms now look vulnerable Under pressure from his own political party, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on 6 January 2025, after a ...

Women in India donate nearly twice as many organs as men, yet men are more likely to be recipients. Rupsa Chakraborty asks why The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (Notto), India’s ...

A man in his 30s presented to the emergency department after becoming intoxicated and striking the ground with his right fist. He reported pain, swelling, and limited movement around his right fifth ...

To borrow a phrase from American football, Donald Trump is flooding the zone. The NHS is flooding the zone. Even medical journals are flooding the zone. Pity the citizen, health professional, or ...

Hospitals in England are being urged by a watchdog to learn from a trust’s “tragic” delayed diagnosis of a woman’s cancer that denied her time with her family. The office of the Parliamentary and ...

Moiz Salhi/Anadolu/Getty Images This group of children are among the thousands of Palestinian refugees returning to their home towns in the Gaza Strip after last month’s ceasefire between Israel and ...

P values and confidence intervals are often used in science and medicine to quantify chance and uncertainty. An essay in Nature , however, claims that probability isn’t an objective property of a ...

General practice is changing fast. There is an abundance of digital technology supporting many new service delivery models.1 The NHS App is increasingly used to access GP services. Almost 40 000 new ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research “Small individual gain, larger population gain” sounds like the theme for a preventive medicine conference. It’s actually the headline of an editorial about a ...

Over one year on from Israel's continued siege on Gaza, Duha Shellah examines the impact on Gaza’s medical students, and the implications that this has for the destruction of healthcare infrastructure ...

Doctors treating Valdo Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and murdered two university students and a school caretaker, refrained from giving him long lasting depot injections of ...