The line manager of a transgender doctor who was asked to leave a women’s changing room by a nurse thought that the incident might be a hate crime reportable to police, she told an employment tribunal ...

Doctors, nurses, and medical auxiliaries throughout Bolivia went on strike for six days in July over an unpaid annual bonus considered a crucial part of their income. The strikes—which led to the ...

Stokel-Walker summarises the artificial intelligence (AI) tools being used to record doctor-patient conversations.1 I encourage clinicians who are using ambient scribing to familiarise themselves with ...

What you need to know A parent visits their general practitioner with their 1 year old child, who is due to receive several vaccinations. During the appointment, the parent asks whether it is OK to ...

Unsafe conditions and abusive practices are systemic in immigration detention facilities, writes Vicki B Gaubeca “We had to sleep on a bus for two nights, sitting on hard seats and shackled,” and they ...

A Nuffield Trust analysis has shown that resident doctors’ pay is still behind 2010-11 levels in real terms. The think tank published the data as NHS England’s chief executive said that doctors should ...

The UK’s drugs regulator has introduced new regulations that will enable hospitals to perform the final manufacturing steps of personalised gene therapy treatments. The Medicines and Healthcare ...

Patients need reassurance that they can trust healthcare professionals to feel truly safe, writes Liz Sutton Patient safety as an academic and applied discipline has arisen as the result of evidence ...

Doctors, healthcare workers, and aid staffers are now collapsing from starvation in Gaza and risk death queueing for food, humanitarian organisations have warned. The death toll at and around ...

Studies suggest that some commercially available health tests are inaccurate and unsuitable for public use. Rebecca Coombes , Hristio Boytchev , and Gareth Iacobucci ask if regulation is adequately ...

Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of major sports tournaments has long raised eyebrows.1 The relationship between sport and junk food corporations continues to warrant scrutiny, not just on the global stage, ...

The world’s wellness industry is worth trillions of dollars. The non-profit Global Wellness Institute claims that the wellness industry is worth four times as much as the drug industry.1 That’s a lot ...