Shanghai’s municipal health authorities have issued a “negative list” of nine types of online behaviour that doctors should avoid, from unlawful advertising to criticising government policy, in what ...

Mumtaz Patel has been elected president of the Royal College of Physicians for the next four years with a promise to “modernise the college and re-establish the RCP as the voice of our membership and ...

This article introduces a series of papers on new guidance for the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach. Core GRADE was produced in response to the need ...

Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a device. Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content ...

I echo Simpson et al.’s call for a national widening participation strategy, underpinned by standardized contextual admissions frameworks. A cohesive, coordinated approach is essential if we are ...

With another NHS reorganisation looming, any changes must strengthen the role of public health in the NHS, write Chad Byworth and colleagues The government’s decision to abolish NHS England while ...

From March to July 2019 just over 40 000 people from 69 primary care centres in the Midlands and the South of England were invited to take part in the study. Inclusion criteria included being assigned ...

Reporting guidelines have become an essential instrument of scientific integrity. We need to make the leap from just producing reporting guidelines to helping researchers put them into practice, ...

Kenneth F Schulz and David Moher look back at the history of the CONSORT guidelines and Douglas Altman’s instrumental role in them The update of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT ...

In his first sit-down television interview the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, claimed that he was “not familiar” with the ongoing cuts to state and local public health programs, adding that ...

The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended a targeted twice daily drug treatment that could help around 3000 women a year with advanced breast cancer in England and Wales ...

People with long term health conditions are being left vulnerable to harm and burnout because of inadequate coordination of care across the NHS and care system, England’s patient safety watchdog has ...