Afghanistan has made important strides in healthcare delivery and outcomes despite political instability, but withdrawal of international funding threatens progress and system collapse, write Sabera ...

The summaries of product characteristics (SmPCs; previously called data sheets) of certain drugs sometimes specify that they should be used “at the discretion of the physician,” often when advising ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research It wasn’t long ago that we’d routinely. advise people with heart failure and fluid overload to restrict their fluid intake. Nowadays, restriction advice is ...

This article introduces a series of papers on new guidance for the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach. Core GRADE was produced in response to the need ...

Central to the government's mission to improve health and fix the NHS is a “shift from sickness to prevention.”1 Yet key indicators suggest we are moving in the wrong direction. Healthy life ...

With another NHS reorganisation looming, any changes must strengthen the role of public health in the NHS, write Chad Byworth and colleagues The government’s decision to abolish NHS England while ...

NHS outpatient care is “archaic, disjointed, and inefficient” and needs radical reform to bring down waiting lists, the Royal College of Physicians and the Patients Association have said.1 The two ...

I’ve been sitting on my hands over the topic of assisted dying. Not because I’m scared, or irritated, or confused. I’ve purposely not spoken out owing to something much more serious. Because of my ...

The family of a doctor who took his own life within hours of receiving an email from the General Medical Council (GMC) has failed in their bid to sue the GMC for damages over his death.1 Sridharan ...

GPs appointed in past six months More than 1500 additional GPs, equating to 851 full time doctors, have been recruited to England’s workforce in the past six months under the Additional Roles ...

Shanghai’s municipal health authorities have issued a “negative list” of nine types of online behaviour that doctors should avoid, from unlawful advertising to criticising government policy, in what ...

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that doctors in two children’s end-of-life cases may be named, to allow the parents to tell their story about what happened to them and their child in hospital and in ...