Reporting guidelines have become an essential instrument of scientific integrity. We need to make the leap from just producing reporting guidelines to helping researchers put them into practice, ...

Kenneth F Schulz and David Moher look back at the history of the CONSORT guidelines and Douglas Altman’s instrumental role in them The update of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT ...

In his first sit-down television interview the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, claimed that he was “not familiar” with the ongoing cuts to state and local public health programs, adding that ...

The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended a targeted twice daily drug treatment that could help around 3000 women a year with advanced breast cancer in England and Wales ...

People with long term health conditions are being left vulnerable to harm and burnout because of inadequate coordination of care across the NHS and care system, England’s patient safety watchdog has ...

Long queues are snaking outside pharmacies in major cities across Colombia as patients try to collect their drugs, only to be told that even basic medications are unavailable, as the country’s health ...

In a recent BMJ podcast interview Clare Owen , director of the Medical Schools Council, discusses racism in medical education with Victor Adebowale , chair of the NHS Confederation ### Biographies ...

Revenue could reduce funding gaps and inequalities The UK’s health and social care services are increasingly strained by rising demands and widening health inequalities—in life expectancy, infant ...

Going through fertility treatment can be physically and mentally exhausting, especially when working at the same time, but there are ways you can ease the strain, Abi Rimmer hears Divpreet Sacha, ...

The announcement that NHS England (NHSE) will be scrapped may have surprised the mainstream media, but for many insiders there were indications of the direction of travel. The absence of any serious ...

The year is 1828. Anaesthesia is yet to be invented and tethered to an operating table in the centre of a crowded, putrid theatre at Guy’s Hospital, a patient screams at his surgeon to stop the ...

A month before Mahmoud Abu Nujaila, a doctor who worked with Médecins Sans Frontières at Gaza's Al-Awda hospital, was killed by an Israeli airstrike along with his colleagues, he wrote on a hospital ...