What you need to know James is a 16 year old boy who lives in a residential (children’s) home. Over the past two months, he has regularly gone missing, returning with new clothes and a new smartphone ...

Standardising practice can improve identification and reduce bias Even for the most experienced healthcare providers, recognising and evaluating suspected child maltreatment or exploitation is ...

Donald Trump is the new US president after an ill tempered campaign that saw abortion dominate on the Democratic side but healthcare a minor part of the overall election discourse. Joanne Silberner ...

Access to the UK’s rich and vast banks of health data should be streamlined and simplified, to capitalise on the unique opportunity it offers to boost biomedical research and improve lives, a major ...

NICE has said it expects to evaluate dozens of potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease over the next few years. Elisabeth Mahase examines what we know about these drugs This year the National ...

The Medical Protection Society has called for all NHS trust staff who deal with disciplinary investigations to have specialised training, to ensure that doctors are treated fairly and compassionately, ...

Toxicologists have warned of a sharp rise in drug overdose deaths in England involving a group of potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Nitazenes have been found as contaminants in street heroin ...

The narrative on universal health coverage should be centred around four core elements: universality, equity, adequate financing, and preparedness in public health emergencies, write Katri Bertram and ...

A health scandal in which newborn babies were allowed to die for profit has cast a harsh light on Turkey’s growing reliance on private hospitals. Eleven private hospitals in and around Istanbul have ...

New study reports protective effect among people with type 2 diabetes Kidney stones and the systemic conditions associated with them have a major impact on health and the economy in the US and ...

Witnessing a postmortem examination can be markedly different from undertaking a dissection, and may be more distressing. Medical students should receive a detailed brief about the technical practice ...

Record breaking outbreaks worldwide have put the virus in the spotlight like never before. Kamala Thiagarajan asks why—and what are we doing to try to stop it? Neelika Malavige knows first hand the ...