Experts and residents have called for better warning systems and clearer communication, after the deadliest episode of flooding in Spain’s modern history left more than 200 people dead. As of 1 ...

As a young researcher in psychiatry David Goldberg experienced two career defining revelations. The first was that the diagnostic system he had been taught was “top down,” dreamt up by committees of ...

The Australian government must prioritise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, older people, children, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and people with disabilities when ...

To understand how academic science can be violated we must first understand the norms that determine how it should be successfully prosecuted. The work of the sociologist Robert K Merton is ...

Giving women a choice of how they access abortion is a crucial part of comprehensive and person centred abortion care, writes Matthea Roemer The right to have an abortion continues to be denied, ...

For many years, David Sturgeon was a lecturer in psychiatry at Middlesex Hospital in London, where he encouraged generations of medical students and junior doctors to consider a psychotherapeutic ...

Improving access and tackling inequities in palliative care globally would help to reduce preventable suffering, write Anna Peeler , Oladayo Afolabi , and Richard Harding Millions of people around the ...

Update revises language and focuses on fairness in research Anybody who has undertaken research involving human participants knows that research ethics has to square some challenging circles. Medical ...

The Energy Intelligence Forum took place in London in October 2023. Previously known as the Oil and Money conference, it hosted oil giants such as Shell, Total, and Equinor (the company behind ...

The results of a new annual stocktake of threats to health linked to the climate emergency are the most serious in its eight year history, a review has concluded. Heat related deaths, food insecurity, ...

The BMA has broadly welcomed the fact that NHS pension taxation rules were unchanged by the government’s autumn budget but lamented that nothing was done to remove financial barriers to doctors taking ...

A middle aged US resident who returned from West Africa earlier this month died on 28 October while isolated in a hospital in the central state of Iowa, the US Centers for Disease Control and ...