Five years ago a BMJ investigation found that medical students were being let down by poor monitoring and responses to ...

Governments are being urged to take action to improve healthcare for the growing number of people with chronic diseases after a survey of more than 100 000 patients found that many are missing out on ...

The prevention of multiple long term conditions needs to be higher up the healthcare agenda and for this to happen we need to be more precise about what we mean when talking about it. As populations ...

We all admire people with the courage to suffer and pay a heavy price for acting on their beliefs. They act when most of us don’t. I think of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor who spoke up ...

Black women are more than twice as likely as white women to die from pregnancy related causes (doi:10.1136/bmj.r226).1 This inequality isn’t fully explained by socioeconomic factors. The explanation ...

Doctors’ leaders are warning that a new NHS England review of all postgraduate medical training must deliver “clear reform” and not be a token “listening exercise.” England’s chief medical officer ...

Ted Buckley was the fourth of nine siblings—six boys and three girls—and the first in his family to study medicine. He founded the first neurosurgery service in the south of Ireland and the country’s ...

In 2020, after its doors had been closed by the pandemic, the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago gave its Rockhopper penguins the run of the place ( ). Entertaining videos of the penguins, as they explored ...

International experience could inform UK law, regulation, and clinical practice Organ donation after physician assisted dying has the potential to increase the availability of lifesaving organs while ...

Black women in the UK are still more likely to die in childbirth than their white counterparts. Samara Linton explores why—and what’s being done to improve outcomes The UK has one of the lowest ...

Chris Bennett shares her thoughts about the year she and her husband had together after he was found to have a brain tumour Today my husband wrote me a love letter. Well, if I'm honest, I'm not ...

This woman in her late 60s presented with painful swelling, ecchymoses, and vesicles on sun exposed areas (fig 1). She had no medical history, regular medications, or relevant family history, but ...