Improving people’s experiences during and between care episodes and reducing the fear and harm associated with long waits can restore public satisfaction in the NHS, writes Chris Graham Since the ...

Short term trials with surrogate measures instead of hard outcomes are often used to study chronic diseases. The effects of an intervention may, however, take time to develop and persist after ...

Sixty years ago cystic fibrosis was practically a death sentence, but the remarkable progress of science and medicine means that people with the condition can live into their 60s. What new health ...

This author describes what it is like to experience a loved one going through a psychotic episode and what support health professionals could have given her and her family. I was 10 when my sister ...

Vicky Evans played a leading role in developing the discipline of forensic medicine as an academic specialty, establishing a training programme as well as professional standards and competencies: ...

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that doctors in two children’s end-of-life cases may be named, to allow the parents to tell their story about what happened to them and their child in hospital and in ...

Robotic surgery will be used to perform more operations for NHS patients in England and Wales, after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) gave conditional approval for 11 ...

The UK population’s health is getting worse. Health inequalities are widening and obesity rates rising, particularly among children in deprived areas (doi:10.1136/bmj.q2819 doi:10.1136/bmj.r525 doi:10 ...

First developed in the 1960s, tranexamic acid, an inhibitor of plasminogen activation and fibrinolysis, found niche applications in treating hereditary bleeding disorders. The indications for drugs ...

A woman in her early 60s presented with a three day history of a widespread, itchy rash. She had no relevant history and was not on any regular medications, but the rash occurred after she had worn ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research It wasn’t long ago that we’d routinely. advise people with heart failure and fluid overload to restrict their fluid intake. Nowadays, restriction advice is ...

Central to the government's mission to improve health and fix the NHS is a “shift from sickness to prevention.”1 Yet key indicators suggest we are moving in the wrong direction. Healthy life ...