Identifying patients with chest pain that is of cardiac origin is crucial owing to the high mortality and morbidity of cardiovascular diseases. History, electrocardiogram, and cardiac biomarkers are ...

An error in ranking applicants for radiology specialty training programmes has led to job offers for some doctors being retracted. Resident doctors who applied for radiology were sent the outcomes of ...

Thankfully not. Instead, this is good news. Surgeons have linked the move to a cashless society to a dramatic drop in children needing operations for accidentally swallowing small items such as coins.

The US government has unleashed a whirlwind of public service cuts—those to international aid are already having life threatening consequences. Heather Rilkoff reports “What has happened has the ...

How does racism and inequality affect medical research? Wellcome Trust CEO John-Arne Røttingen sits with Victor Adebowale , chair of the NHS Confederation, to discuss ### Biographies John-Arne ...

We must learn from the successes and failures of the covid-19 vaccination programme if we are to prepare for the next pandemic, writes Samantha Vanderslott Vaccination has been so successful in ...

These are dark and fearful times at all US federal agencies, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is no exception. But at the NIH the fear is compounded by a mystery: why us? The disruptions ...

Greater cooperation in global health is needed to tackle challenges and to harness new opportunities. Canada should take a greater leadership role, write Jocalyn Clark , Timothy Evans , and Kelley Lee ...

Supporting the healthy development of children requires an approach to smartphone and social media use underpinned by age appropriate design and education, argue Victoria Goodyear and colleagues ...

A rise in antibiotic resistant cases of gonorrhoea, including extensively drug resistant (XDR) strains, risks making the sexually transmitted infection (STI) “untreatable” if the problem is not ...

Staff should introduce themselves with their title, name, and role and have badges clearly detailing this to avoid confusion and misdirection, writes Tim Cook The “Hello, my name is” campaign, set up ...

Decades of improvements in mortality are coming undone as public health funding is eroded and trust in evidence based treatment is undermined. At the same time, commercial interests are pushing people ...