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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Hospitals in England are being urged by a watchdog to learn from a trust’s “tragic” delayed diagnosis of a woman’s cancer that denied her time with her family. The office of the Parliamentary and ...

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 ...

“What’s your view of herd immunity?” someone non-medical asked me at a party recently. “How long have you got?” I replied. It’s my way of avoiding an argument when I sense that somebody wants to ...

Jill Van der Knaap (née Close) was born in London in 1943. Despite coming from a family with no medical background, modest means, and negligible influence, she made it to the London Hospital Medical ...

The adage “health is wealth” applies to the country and to individuals. While politicians debate conventional economic growth, it’s evident that the increasing impact of population ill health will be ...

Did we forget the warnings of Per O Seglen, in The BMJ in February 1997, that “articles in the most cited half of articles in a journal are cited 10 times as often as the least cited half”?2 ...