Kenya’s High Court has suspended a new US-Kenya health cooperation agreement after it received petitions over data privacy and procedural problems. Justice Bahati Mwamuye’s 11 December order halts any ...

Credit: Whisypyhistory Terence English was a dynamic force with disparate talents and a penchant for wild extravagance. He performed Britain’s first successful heart transplant at Papworth Hospital in ...

The original definition of the word “bias,” when it entered the English language in the 16th century, was a diagonal line, and specifically one that cut across the warp or weft of a woven fabric. It ...

The deal at a glance #### What’s in it? #### What’s not in the offer? Resident doctors could get 4000 more training posts and ...

At the time, effective treatment was still emerging, the UN response was fragmented, and some agencies were at odds over the ...

Objective To quantify the time lag between biomedical articles and the studies they describe as “recent,” a term widely used to imply timeliness despite rarely reflecting the actual age of the cited ...

We must end the commodification of health data by big tech companies, centre healthcare on care, and put people back in control, argue Victor, J P, and Victor M Montori Big tech companies are driving ...

Campaigners against the use of puberty blockers for gender questioning children have taken the first steps towards potential legal action to stop a clinical trial of the treatment. The Bayswater ...

Clinical words and phrases often work their way into doctors’ everyday language, sometimes without them realising. Nikki Nabavi reports Doctors are known for our use of jargon, acronyms, and myriad ...

Medical science has been remarkably successful over the past two centuries at preventing and curing what were once common ...

Flu has come early this year—and cases are rocketing. Chris Baraniuk explains what’s making this season so exceptional ...

Staff face one of the “toughest” winters ever (doi:10.1136/bmj.r2620), says the chief executive of the NHS.1 The annual flu season arrived early, and vaccination rates are low among the public and ...