This third article in a seven part series presents the Core GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and ...

Alice Giucca describes how her experience on a postnatal ward showed a system in collapse As I watch my newborn daughter sleep in one of her three hour stretches of peaceful bliss, I do what I have ...

Former prime minister Tony Blair sparked controversy last month when he claimed that strategies to tackle climate change were causing public disengagement and division and were “doomed to fail.” ...

The Gates Foundation is set to close a decade earlier than anticipated as its founder, Bill Gates, accelerates funding in the hope of speeding up the eradication of poverty and disease. Almost the ...

People who were vaccinated against herpes zoster were 26% less likely to die from heart disease or have a stroke, heart attack, or heart failure compared with people who hadn’t been vaccinated, ...

Acute ischemic stroke is a leading global cause of death and disability. Intravenous thrombolysis was the first acute treatment developed for ischemic strokes. First with alteplase and now with ...

Any future assisted dying services in the UK should not be based in general practice, nor should any doctor be forced to be involved in them, GPs have insisted. Representatives at the annual UK ...

Leaders across the globe must now decide whether to act to end the “escalating atrocities in Gaza” or “bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population,” UN experts have said.1 The 39 ...

UK regulators must produce clear guidelines for the prescribing and monitoring of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists for weight loss, particularly when treatment is initiated online, GP ...

At a recent conference in London patients gave an insight into their thoughts on use of AI in the NHS Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic fantasy; it’s rapidly becoming a part of our ...

John was born in London, then moved to Sheffield and North Wales, where he attended Penygroes Secondary School. He qualified from St Andrew’s in 1947 and undertook his pre-registration year at the ...

The use of penicillin during the second world war was highly effective in reducing the ill effects of infections in wounded soldiers, particularly between D-day in June 1944 and VE day in May 1945.