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The future doctor may be less the sole expert and more a kind of relational anchor—someone grounded in science but unshaken by challenge, open to ideas from patient, family, colleague, or algorithm.

The UN Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development decided to grant special consultative status to the EFPC for the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Consulta...

Doctors are being invited to help shape NHS staffing reforms, as the Scottish government commits to two months of engagement as part of its Future Medical Workforce project. Scotland’s resident doctor...

Faced with a row over guidance to improve consistency on sentencing by the courts, the British government chose a populist narrative. This sends a worrying message to public health professionals promo...

Even as hospitals in Gaza were turned into battlefields, some Palestinian–Israeli health care programs bridged the deep divides and continued to build trust between the populations in conflict.

In this blog, David Walsh and Gerry McCartney discuss the disastrous effects that austerity policies have had on life expectancy - exacerbating health inequalities and causing many people in our most ...

In which I think about how a UK populist government could undermine science as a way of prompting discussions about how to protect it.

03/07/2020 10:00 Room 1 #appimrEmpathy is a crucial clinician skill correlated with patient satisfaction, compliance and outcomes as well as doctors’ wellbeing. Rising empathy fatigue has been found a...

Forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead asks if violence is normal.

Dorothy Bishop describes how threats to reproducibility, recognized but unaddressed for decades, might finally be brought under control.

Background Recent media attention has been given to an apparent shift away from hormonal methods of contraception. While an increase in fertility awareness-based or ‘natural’ family planning methods i...

We are delighted to announce our upcoming Symposium on the Future of Evaluation in Health and Social Care, hosted by Northumbia University.

It was Cory Doctorow, the author, who coined the term ‘enshittification’ when he used it to describe the evolution and, critically, the deterioration of tech platforms. In 2023 the American Dialect So...

As we approach the centenary of the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland in 2048, it is crucial to envision its transformation into a system that

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Since the earliest stages of the pandemic, muscle weakness has been a key symptom described by patients post-COVID infection. Estimated to affect up to 60% of those with long COVID, it can have a prof...

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NHS Fife says the long-term use of highly-addictive drugs is not the best approach to chronic pain.