Current regulations may not be sufficient to mitigate the effects of widespread and long lasting PFAS. Katharine Lang looks at the issue Recent news has highlighted concern about the presence in ...
Different data paint a contrasting picture of how productive the health service in England is. Matthew Limb examines why Productivity in acute hospitals in England is rising, data published by the ...
The UK Department of Health and Social Care’s voluntary guidelines for sugar and salt in commercial baby foods represent progress but are unlikely to protect infants unless strengthened with ...
Olsen discusses how clinicians can help prevent skin cancer.1 Most of the damaging effect of sun exposure in more temperate countries such as the UK is from risky behaviours—namely, sunbathing and ...
Starting a new rotation can be daunting, but a little planning can help ease the transition, Elisabeth Mahase hears Stephanie Santos Paulo, locum senior house officer and editorial registrar at The ...
The High Court has quashed a GP’s suspension from the UK medical register after finding that the tribunal that sanctioned her had applied the wrong test for dishonesty and reversed the burden of proof ...
The latest resident doctors’ strikes raise a question at the heart of ethics: do the ends justify the means? Is it acceptable for doctors to allow foreseeable harm to patients by striking in the hope ...
Resident doctors across England braved the elements to join picket lines this morning as they kicked off their latest five ...
Children are now using e-cigarettes at higher rates than adults. Tom Gatehouse and colleagues argue for an approach to ...
What you need to know A 58 year old man presents to his general practitioner (GP) to discuss recent blood test results after ...
In a recent lecture Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, talked about how setbacks driven by misinformation can be ...
England is facing one of the toughest ever winters in its history as an early wave of flu sweeps the nation, health officials ...