The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has sued a New York State doctor for allegedly prescribing medication abortion pills to a Texas woman.1 Margaret Daley Carpenter, a board certified family ...

A new approach for teaching clinical skills At the heart of the practice of medicine is the tenet “to do good or to do no harm.”1 Fundamental to achieving this objective is continuing professional ...

David Nunan and Jeff Aronson suggest that formal criteria are needed to determine eligibility for posthumous authorship and for dealing with associated ethical problems Posthumous authorship poses ...

The Italian government has cancelled fines for people who refused to have covid-19 vaccinations. Italy has been severely affected by covid-19, with over 190 000 deaths since the virus was first ...

New guidance aims to improve consistency, reporting, and respect for people who have died before publication of their work Preparing academic work for publication can be a lengthy process.

WHO’s pandemic treaty is an attempt to learn from our past successes and failures, but it falls short in several areas. With key revisions, the pandemic treaty could be an accord that fosters ...

How we train future clinicians has the potential to radically and sustainably improve healthcare for everyone. Current medical education has an overt biomedical focus that does not engage enough on ...

Evidence based guidelines work but are not universally applied Publication of the House of Lords’ report Preterm Birth: Reducing Risks and Improving Lives 1 coincides with the realisation that the UK ...

Chamber music can spur us to reflect on the experience of families and friends when a patient dies—but also to celebrate and grieve for loved ones of our own, says Desmond O’Neill To grieve is not ...

Paediatric units are operating with an average 20% shortfall of resident doctors and trainees on shifts, according to a report from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).1 These ...

UK doctors who have returned from Gaza have described the situation as “absolutely dire,” recalling blood soaked beds, emaciated colleagues and patients, and doctors forced to perform brain surgery on ...