Robust statistical reasoning is vital in the courtroom, as historical cases have shown. Take, for example, the case of Sally ...

At least 10 doctors and five other healthcare workers have been arrested and detained in Iran, with one facing a potential death sentence, human rights groups and doctor organisations warn. It comes ...

Without parallel public health action, reclassifying ketamine risks being a symbolic gesture rather than a strategy to reduce harm, write Adam Winstock , David Nutt , and Caroline Copeland The UK ...

Rosalind Adam and colleagues argue that cancer reviews should be integrated into routine chronic disease management in primary care Cancer is a leading cause of death, and one year mortality remains ...

Stokel-Walker correctly highlights that, despite its prevalence and serious consequences, delirium remains under-recognised and poorly managed.1 One reason we continue to “do little” is our persistent ...

No, this seems to be a year round phenomenon. Latest data from the Health Survey for England 2024 show that almost a quarter of adults don’t drink alcohol.1 Maybe those public health messages are ...

Doctors are carrying more and more hardware. Each device is designed to do a job, but together they are giving clinicians “alarm fatigue”—to the detriment of patient safety. Chris Stokel-Walker ...

GPs have been urged to “get the basics right” when treating patients with respiratory illness after a 25% rise in emergency admissions to hospital for pneumonia over two years in England. An analysis ...

Hospital waiting lists are slowly coming down, at least in official statistics,1 although some of this may be from cleaning the lists by deleting duplicates and removing people who no longer need to ...

Women who have been vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) should be screened for cervical cancer less often, a study has suggested.1 For women vaccinated at young ages, screening just two or ...

Dear Editor The MHRA’s strengthened warning on acute pancreatitis associated with glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and dual GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists is appropriate from a pharmacovigilance ...

Gillian Leng’s review set out recommendations for how physician assistants should be used in the NHS. Matthew Limb examines ...