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Opinion | Skepticism Is Healthy, but in Medicine, It Can Be Dangerous
Skepticism and distrust of health practitioners is on the rise. How are doctors supposed to restore...
Texas Surgeon Is Accused of Secretly Denying Liver Transplants
A Houston hospital is investigating whether a doctor altered a transplant list to make his patients...
South Korea doctors’ strike widens as medical professors join protests
Some professors will submit their resignations while others will cut their hours over a government plan...
Tuesday briefing: How the NHS ‘culture of concealment and denial’ hurts patients
In today’s newsletter: Amid many other crises, the standard of NHS care for patients’ families is...
A Doctor’s Lifelong Quest to Solve One of Pediatric Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries
For 40 years, Dr. Jane Burns has been working to find the cause of Kawasaki disease,...
Government delays plans to double number of medical students in England
Fears for impact on NHS workforce as leaked letter reveals ministers stall on aim to increase...
Ban on doctors raising voluntary assisted dying with ill patients to remain as Victoria reviews law
Advocates lament missed opportunity for reform, saying some safeguards have become barriers Get our morning and...
Opinion | When a Cure Comes Too Late
Future generations will see breakthroughs that cure many kinds of diseases. But where does that leave...
Opinion | My Patients Used to Be Gung-Ho About the Covid Vaccine. What Changed?
A newer, more vague vaccine hesitancy is emerging. A New York doctor has some advice for...
‘Gaslit by doctors’: UK women with endometriosis told it is ‘all in their head’
More than 1.5 million women in the UK are affected by the painful condition - but...
Physician associates aren’t doctors and shouldn’t be regulated as such, says BMA
Union says government’s plans for General Medical Council regulation diminishes role of doctors and could confuse...
Junior doctors in Wales to begin three-day strike over pay
Welsh NHS Confederation warns stoppage coincides with one of ‘most pressurised weeks of the year’Junior doctors...
NHS chief warns trusts in England are ‘stretched to limit’ amid strikes
Chief executive says further industrial action by junior doctors will hamper progress to reduce health service...
Settle NHS dispute or thousands with cancer could die early, say health chiefs
Exclusive: Cancer leaders and oncologists increasingly alarmed at impact of strikes on treatmentThousands of cancer patients...