Chris Howard studied medicine at Liverpool University, qualifying in 1968. He completed his houseman, senior house officer, and registrar training in medicine and paediatrics at Leeds General ...

Steve was born in Preston, only two miles from where he would later practice as a consultant physician for 28 years. The maternity ward was hit by an outbreak of neonatal diarrhoea and there were ...

There are ways to make workplaces feel more inclusive for neurodivergent colleagues, Abi Rimmer hears Catriona McVey, final year medical student, says, “Neurodivergent colleagues often bring unique ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr, announced on 27 March that he would cut 10 000 employees from department agencies as part of government restructuring by Elon Musk’s Department Government Efficiency. Another ...

Another week of cuts and announcements from the Trump administration has continued the storm around health, medicine, and research in the US and globally. Mun-Keat Looi and Owen Dyer report HIV/AIDS ...

A New York State county clerk has refused to enforce penalties filed by the state of Texas against a doctor in New York State who posted medication abortion drugs to a Texan woman.1 The US ...

What you need to know There has been a worldwide rise in homelessness over the past 10 years.1 On a single night in 2024 roughly 771 480 people in the United States were experiencing homelessness, the ...

Medical research has traditionally studied men, with findings extrapolated to women. Project founder Kate Womersley talks to Menaka Fry about her attempts to change this When Susan Cole was pregnant ...

England’s patient safety commissioner has warned that patients with vision or hearing impairments are at greater risk from medicines and medical devices because their views are not sufficiently ...

Science is under siege. Political forces are undermining expertise, dismantling research institutions, and replacing evidence based policymaking with ideology. This is a global crisis. The covid-19 ...

A step forward in de-escalating treatment The evolution of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been shaped by the continuous challenge of balancing ...

St Bartholomew’s medical school had only been accepting female students for eight years when Coral Sharpe (née Knight) began studying in 1955. Sharpe was not an obvious trailblazer, but in her quiet, ...