Marjory was the third child of a Methodist minister and a graduate mathematician. She followed her older sister into medicine at a time when women were not expected to pursue academic interests. She ...
The former CDC director tells The BMJ why he’s optimistic despite the chaos at his former agency and why primary care—and ...
Flu has come early this year—and cases are rocketing. Chris Baraniuk explains what’s making this season so exceptional ...
Medical leaders have urged the BMA to suspend advice stating that doctors do not need to tell their employer if they plan to strike. Ahead of next week’s five day walkout by resident doctors in ...
Improving sexual and reproductive health and rights means confronting problems that are inherently social and political, say Rajat Khosla and colleagues Global health stands at a crossroads. The ...
My father Robert—Bob to those who knew him—was born in Romford, Essex, in 1948. He took his O and A levels at Brentwood School; he was placed in the medical stream but enjoyed playing football for the ...
Women are receiving poor standards of basic care in maternity services across England, while staff are receiving death threats, a rapid review into the system has found.1 The national investigation ...
A “senseless” triple drone strike on children and health workers in southern Sudan has killed 114 people and injured 35, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported. The attack, launched on 5 ...
The number of children dying before the age of 5 is expected to rise this year for the first time in a quarter of a century as cuts to international health funding bite, a report by the Gates ...
The NHS’s plan for recovering dental services will require a coordinated, comprehensive data ecosystem, write Kristina Wanyonyi-Kay , Ben Goldacre , and Mary Dixon-Woods An overlooked feature of the ...
Medical science has been remarkably successful over the past two centuries at preventing and curing what were once common ...
A nurse suspended from work after objecting to a transgender doctor using a female changing room was harassed by the NHS Fife health board but was not discriminated against or victimised, an ...