A new market of intermediary fixers for medical tourists say that they can lower the risks associated with seeking treatment overseas. Charu Bahri asks what these facilitators do—and who oversees them ...

Statisticians have called for better regulation of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests—which typically test samples of fluids such as blood, urine, or saliva—to ensure that they are statistically sound ...

As a teenager, I was always a little “too political.” If I hadn’t studied medicine, I might have found myself getting stuck into the different, but perhaps equally strange world of politics. These ...

What you need to know Regurgitation is common in the first months of life, and concern of disease often prompts parents to seek medical care and advice. Treatment with proton pump inhibitors is common ...

The former head of the cardiovascular surgery department at Blackpool Victoria Hospital has been charged with sexually assaulting six female members of staff. Amal Bose, 54, has been bailed and is due ...

What is recorded, about whom, and for what purpose, tells us a lot about a society, say Carl Reynolds and Habib Naqvi In 1611, in the wake of the bubonic plague, King James I chartered the Company of ...

WHO efforts to provide guidance to countries to better assess and inform public sector engagement with the commercial sector are critical to prevent and control non-communicable diseases, yet much ...

GP representatives around the UK have told the BMA to “use the threat of mass resignation to improve the NHS offer to practices,” arguing that “being prepared to walk away may be more effective than ...

A Virginia prison has released Vince Gilmer, a family practitioner convicted 19 years ago of murdering his father, after the ...

PRP is regularly endorsed by celebrities for a variety of conditions from impotence to dentistry. Sangeetha Nadarajah asks what the evidence is for the treatment When a woman visited a spa in New ...

Over 750 000 deaths associated with antimicrobial resistance could be prevented in low and middle income countries every year ...

A precautionary public health response is needed The tragic deaths of two UK teenagers continue to raise debate about the ...