Google is launching a new experiment that uses AI to help people explore more career possibilities. The company announced in ...

Around 1 in 5 UK medical students considers dropping out of medical school, with mental health issues a key contributor to their intention to abandon medicine, suggest the results of an observational ...

“You’re very good at tying people up, aren’t you?” This casual remark from a male patient as I tied a tourniquet before taking blood was met with my awkward laugh and an instinctive adjustment of my ...

Under pressure from his own political party, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on 6 January 2025, after a 10 year tenure as leader of the country’s Liberal Party and ...

A who’s who guide to the major health roles in Donald Trump’s second presidency Donald Trump began his second stint as president of the United States on 20 January 2025. His appointments to major ...

The government has announced an extra £200m in funding for local public health services in England for the next financial year as a key part of its plan to shift the focus “from hospital to community ...

P values and confidence intervals are often used in science and medicine to quantify chance and uncertainty. An essay in Nature, however, claims that probability isn’t an objective property of a ...

“Small individual gain, larger population gain” sounds like the theme for a preventive medicine conference. It’s actually the headline of an editorial about a new trial of zolendronate for fracture ...

Stephen Barnes, known by his childhood nickname Jim, was born in Oxford and educated at Westminster School. He trained at Cambridge and the Middlesex. After house jobs he embarked on a career in ...

Until then, they’d been creating humorous videos about their medical internship experiences. But the step up in their careers led them to be more reflective. “NEET PG [postgraduate] is incredibly ...

Rasanathan and colleagues set out an important agenda for discussion and reflection around the governance of national public health agencies.1 But it is missing two key components in relation to ...