A thousand extra training places for resident doctors in England will no longer be available this April, the government has ...

Upcoming law changes could tackle the public health impact of this pipe smoked tobacco—but only with increased awareness and ...

Charles Price was steeped in public health from an early age. He was born in Sheffield in 1956 and grew up in Barnsley, South ...

Around 3 million more older adults in England will be offered the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, with all adults ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research The bleeding risk in people taking apixaban was substantially lower than that of ...

Patients were operated on with unsterilised tools Twenty one patients at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Wales were treated using instruments that were not fully sterilised. The instruments had completed ...

At least 38 children in Bangladesh have died from measles, leading health authorities to rollout a vaccination programme for ...

Although long queues are often taken as a sign of failure, they are also a law of nature. As demand approaches capacity, ...

Young people are experiencing increasing psychological distress and common mental health conditions such as anxiety and ...

John was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) where his parents were working with a Church of Scotland mission, his father ...

The covid-19 pandemic exposed three longstanding problems with pulse oximetry. Firstly, pulse oximeters can produce ...

Before the covid pandemic emerged in 2020, The BMJ held a conference in East Asia. The region had been shaken by the H1N1 ...