A New York State county clerk has refused to enforce penalties filed by the state of Texas against a doctor in New York State who posted medication abortion drugs to a Texan woman.1 The US ...

Science is under siege. Political forces are undermining expertise, dismantling research institutions, and replacing evidence based policymaking with ideology. This is a global crisis. The covid-19 ...

There are ways to make workplaces feel more inclusive for neurodivergent colleagues, Abi Rimmer hears Catriona McVey, final year medical student, says, “Neurodivergent colleagues often bring unique ...

Medical research has traditionally studied men, with findings extrapolated to women. Project founder Kate Womersley talks to Menaka Fry about her attempts to change this When Susan Cole was pregnant ...

A step forward in de-escalating treatment The evolution of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been shaped by the continuous challenge of balancing ...

England’s patient safety commissioner has warned that patients with vision or hearing impairments are at greater risk from medicines and medical devices because their views are not sufficiently ...

St Bartholomew’s medical school had only been accepting female students for eight years when Coral Sharpe (née Knight) began studying in 1955. Sharpe was not an obvious trailblazer, but in her quiet, ...

We must learn from the successes and failures of the covid-19 vaccination programme if we are to prepare for the next pandemic, writes Samantha Vanderslott Vaccination has been so successful in ...

Cuts to disability benefits will worsen health and the economy The chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, will set out the UK government’s spending plans in her spring statement on 26 March.1 The ...

An error in ranking applicants for radiology specialty training programmes has led to job offers for some doctors being retracted. Resident doctors who applied for radiology were sent the outcomes of ...

These are dark and fearful times at all US federal agencies, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is no exception. But at the NIH the fear is compounded by a mystery: why us? The disruptions ...

Thankfully not. Instead, this is good news. Surgeons have linked the move to a cashless society to a dramatic drop in children needing operations for accidentally swallowing small items such as coins.