The GP and chief medical officer of a small Norwegian town has been sentenced to 21 years in prison after being convicted of 82 counts of abusing his position as a doctor and 70 counts of rape. All ...

People born and living their early years in the most deprived areas of England have worse health and outcomes throughout their life in terms of obesity, tooth decay, attendances at hospital emergency ...

NHS England faces a referral to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office over its decision to grant researchers training an AI model “similar to ChatGPT” on GP patient data provided to the NHS purely ...

On 1 June it became illegal in the UK to sell or supply single use vapes. The ban was marked by press reports warning that denying people access to disposable vapes would lead to 200 000 taking up ...

Six well known senior clinicians have urged resident doctors to reject a call from the BMA for strike action over pay, arguing that such action would be futile and damaging. A letter signed by Clare ...

Lucy Chappell, NIHR chief executive, speaks to Victor Adebowale about the structural and interpersonal racism embedded in UK healthcare research ### Biographies Lucy Chappell is chief scientific ...

Georgina Johnson describes the compassion and support she received with a cancer diagnosis and getting the balance of information right Being diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer at the age of 48 came ...

There are many ways to help deaf and hard of hearing colleagues feel included and supported, Elisabeth Mahase reports George Webster, medical student and editorial scholar at The BMJ , says, “Don’t ...

Timely investigation needed in the wake of a rising incidence While monitoring of bowel health lacks inherent prestige, the late Dame Deborah James, known internationally as “Bowelbabe,” transformed ...

David Landon was born in 1936 in London. At the outbreak of war the family moved to Horsham and then in 1940 to his mother’s native Australia. His father meanwhile had joined the army, returning to ...

The question of whether assisted dying is a treatment is of legal, philosophical, and clinical importance, write Gareth S Owen , Alex Ruck Keene , and Katherine Sleeman Assisted dying is back in UK ...

Predicting and preventing deaths in conflict zones starts with accurate data Mortality and injury from conflict are major contributors to the global burden of disease,1 but estimates of deaths and ...