What you need to know A 30 year old woman attends her general practice for her annual asthma review. She says her asthma is well controlled, but she has been issued two inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) ...

Henry W Fowler, author of Modern English Usage (1926), and Wilson Follett, author of Modern American Usage (1966), both included “barbarisms” as headwords in their guides. Fowler defined them as ...

A 24 year old student who was visiting his hometown of Malappuram, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, has become the ...

The plan to introduce and further expand physician associates through the NHS workforce plan has become a clinical, financial, and strategic mess. The royal colleges—including the Royal College of ...

The UK government must take stronger action to protect children from the serious health harms of air pollution, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has urged. In an updated ...

For Peter Cole, an anaesthetist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, the life of a conventional hospital consultant would ...

Raised expectations of treatment effect do not justify the cost The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency ...

The World Health Organization has officially verified Jordan as the first country in the world to have eliminated leprosy.1 Also known as Hansen’s disease, leprosy still occurs in more than 120 ...

Ara Darzi’s landmark diagnosis of the NHS blamed misjudged fiddling with NHS structures, headquarters, and regulatory functions for helping to plunge the health service into its current parlous state.

This time it’s the Policy Exchange think tank calling for NHS England to be abolished as an independent commissioning body and for its key functions to be delivered by an NHS management board within ...

Ann Robinson reviews the latest research Many women experience genitourinary symptoms during and after the menopause, but ...

Camacho and colleagues’ study highlights the economic and health impacts of high risk non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug ...