US cuts to international aid are coming at the worst possible time in the fight against malaria, in which Africa faces its worst challenge in a quarter century. Frank Burkybile reports on a community ...

We must unite against harmful cuts and work towards a society that values Disabled people as equal citizens, writes Fazilet Hadi I have been a Disabled person since losing my sight in my teenage years ...

Following a number of suicides among medical staff in public hospitals, three French government ministers are being taken to court accused of manslaughter, institutional moral harassment, and other ...

Shortages of pharmaceutical products have been with us for many years. The earliest example of which I am aware dates back to 1942. Currently over 100 products are in shortage, including hormone ...

The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) has become the latest and most high profile journal to receive a letter from Edward Martin Jr, a Republican activist who was appointed US attorney for ...

Short term trials with surrogate measures instead of hard outcomes are often used to study chronic diseases. The effects of an intervention may, however, take time to develop and persist after ...

Practecal, a phase 2b-3 randomised controlled trial which identified a new treatment regimen for drug resistant tuberculosis (TB), cost €33.9m (£28.95n; $38.54m), with an average cost of €61 460 per ...

America’s position as the world’s dominant nation began after World War II with the appreciation that science played an outsized role in winning the war. For that reason, the US decided that the ...

Exacerbated competition ratios in postgraduate medical training need to be tackled urgently.123 The UK doesn’t have enough jobs for doctors despite being one of the countries with the lowest ...

A “culture of blame” often discourages NHS doctors and other staff from speaking up about the effects of fatigue on the safety of patients, a report has warned. The Health Services Safety ...

Sneddon and Mafi accurately reflect the despair of many resident doctors at the current state of specialty training recruitment.1 As a foundation year 4 doctor, soon to be year 5, I’m experiencing one ...

Qiyong Liu and colleagues revisit the strategies and measures adopted in China to control and eliminate malaria and discuss what can be learnt from its elimination Malaria is a mosquito-borne ...