Healthcare professionals in Iran are risking their lives to treat the wounded and maintain medical ethics, the global health community must back them Medical impartiality is a well established principle but the impartial practice of medicine has brought clinicians into conflict with the authorities in Iran. The current crisis in Iranian healthcare and protests began in September 2022, following…
The more that female foundation doctors see of senior female doctors during placements, the more likely they are to choose to train in that specialty,…
The news that Sarah Benn has been suspended from the medical register sends a bleak message to climate concerned younger doctors, writes Alexander Mafi Doctors…
The state of Florida, the third most populous state in the US, banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy on 1 May, bringing down the…
The kidney and liver transplantation programmes of a major hospital in Houston, Texas, have been suspended while authorities investigate claims that the surgeon in charge…
Over the past year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has grappled with the largest outbreak of mpox in the past half century. Despite obstacles,…
Current evidence leaves more questions than answers Psilocybin and other psychedelics are under investigation for use in several mental health conditions, including depression.1 Psilocybin, a…
The news that Sarah Benn has been suspended from the medical register sends a bleak message to climate concerned younger doctors, writes Alexander Mafi Doctors…
Ford AC, Wright-Hughes A, Alderson SL, et al. Amitriptyline at low-dose and titrated for irritable bowel syndrome as second-line treatment in primary care (ATLANTIS): a…
A global review of three decades of health data has revealed huge health differences in men and women that begin in adolescence and grow throughout…
Whistleblowers in the NHS are targeted by a systemic employer “playbook” designed to silence or remove them, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) has…
