Providing calorie information labels on menus and food products has a small but important effect at a population level on the choices that people make, a large Cochrane review has concluded.1 UK ...

Plans to reform elective care must avoid the trappings of over-investigation and fragmented and inappropriate care, writes Ella Hubbard “We need more activity, and less waste,” says Wes Streeting in ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has withdrawn from a key hospital in Sudan’s capital Khartoum following months of violent attacks on patients and staff.1 The aid organisation announced the “very ...

Adriel Chen and Devi Sridhar discuss the outbreak of Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome in 2020 and consider what lessons we can learn In mid-March 2020 and into April 2020, paediatric wards ...

Has treating patients in corridors and cloakrooms become “normalised”? Jacqui Wise reports A nurse forced to change an incontinent patient with dementia beside a vending machine and a patient dying ...

Decision to treat surgically should be weighed against the rate of complications The introduction of organised cervical screening programmes has enabled the early diagnosis and treatment of cervical ...

While he was a senior house officer in Ashington, Northumberland, Mike Snow developed open tuberculosis. He had a considerable amount of time off work, including 100 days of intramuscular injections ...

Luke Craddock describes what it’s like working in an emergency department as winter pressures bite I’ve only been working as a foundation year 2 doctor in an emergency department for six weeks and ...

In the midst of huge winter pressures, NHS principles on care in “temporary escalation spaces” threaten to take leave from reality In September 2024 NHS England published Principles for providing safe ...

Next week the US president elect, Donald Trump, will take office with a mandate to make radical changes to the government’s approach to medicine and public health. Health insurance coverage in ...

Sustained funding is needed for screening and care, but industry must also shoulder costs Alcohol is widely available and drunk by around 80% of adults in the UK. No safe level of alcohol consumption ...

A former paediatric surgeon has been jailed for five years and seven months for offences committed while operating an unsafe and unsanitary mobile child circumcision service. Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, ...