Sincerely, MD. Rebeca Tenajas Master in Medicina Clínica, Family Medicine Department, Arroyomolinos Community Health Centre, Spain ORCID: 0000-0001-8815-7341 Dr. David Miraut Independent Researcher, ...

The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has issued its own childhood vaccination schedule, including a recommendation for children to receive the covid-19 vaccine, in a major split with the US ...

These modern warnings echo a historical precedent where power met challenges with suppression, not debate. Galileo faced the Inquisition for observing the heavens; today, scientists face digital ...

Public health experts have warned that inadequate policies on conflicts of interest in government commissioned research into gambling “will only lead to more harm” for members of the public. Last year ...

A new multimillion pound programme to test new obesity services and treatments, funded in part by the weight loss drug manufacturer Eli Lilly, could be seen as “marketing by another name,” public ...

More than half a million people in Gaza are now “trapped in famine,” as food and clean water continue to be used as weapons of war as part of Israel’s “genocidal campaign,” aid agencies have said. The ...

Recent years have seen the emergence of research integrity sleuths, who devote time to detecting misconduct in academic research publications, a major source of which comes from paper mills, ...

The author and barrister John Mortimer once quipped that “no brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.”1 I was reminded of this quote on a visit to my GP for a ...

Some 1200 patients a year in England are set to benefit from a “breakthrough” life extending treatment for bladder cancer after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved it ...

CQC highlights risks of filling rota gaps with PAs Great Ormond Street Hospital’s use of physician assistants (PAs) to fill gaps in its surgical rota raises concerns over supervision and decision ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the weight loss drug semaglutide, marketed as Wegovy, for the treatment of patients with a severe form of liver disease called metabolic associated ...

I agree with Smith and colleagues’ key recommendations about NHS management reform.1 But three additional systemic changes are needed. Firstly, the framework used for investigating doctors and ...