Israel’s “cynical and calculated” threat to ban aid organisations from the Gaza Strip could leave Palestinians without lifesaving medical care, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns. New rules mean ...

US officials have approved a daily pill version of Novo Nordisk’s injectable obesity drug Wegovy (semaglutide), opening the door to even more patients taking it. The “Wegovy pill”—cheaper than the ...

I am saddened to read the recent article regarding fake appointments. I first wrote on this issue in 2018 and had hoped the article would now be a historic document. I believe to punish an individual ...

Almost one million people have signed up to a national diabetes prevention scheme, which has been shown to cut the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by more than a third. NHS England released details ...

A GP has been suspended from the UK medical register for five months for booking fake medical appointments so she could leave work in time to pick her children up from an after school club. Helen ...

Outbreaks of several infectious diseases in Cuba have killed dozens and are reportedly overwhelming the island’s hospitals and mortuaries. Cuba is confronting one of its most serious infectious ...

In the remote islands of Chuuk state, Micronesia, tuberculosis has long been a silent crisis, spreading quietly through communities, often undiagnosed. For many decades, tuberculosis could only be ...

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Clinical question What is the role of gastrointestinal bleeding prophylaxis (stress ulcer prophylaxis) in critically ill patients? This guideline was prompted by the publication of a new large ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an uncommon but potentially catastrophic diagnosis with historically high mortality rates. The standard of care treatment remained unchanged for decades; however, ...

Techniques designed to combine the results of qualitative and quantitative studies can provide researchers with more knowledge than separate analysis Researchers will often use qualitative and ...

Causes and consequences are diverse, so functional assessment is not suited to a traditional medical model of system based history and examination Consider functional assessment “screening”: where ...