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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An executive order by Donald Trump promising to “restore the American people’s faith in the scientific enterprise” would ...

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said during a podcast interview that the Trump administration will stop government ...

Growing numbers of US physicians are joining unions, seeing them as a way to regain autonomy in the face of the corporatisation of healthcare. Ella Hubbard reports “They somehow found a way to upset ...

The Pan American Health Organization is calling for countries across the Americas to ramp up vaccination and surveillance ...

Health officials are investigating rising numbers of serious yeast infections in England in the past year, including cases ...