This woman in her late 60s presented with painful swelling, ecchymoses, and vesicles on sun exposed areas (fig 1). She had no medical history, regular medications, or relevant family history, but ...

In 2020, after its doors had been closed by the pandemic, the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago gave its Rockhopper penguins the run of the place ( ). Entertaining videos of the penguins, as they explored ...

Chris Bennett shares her thoughts about the year she and her husband had together after he was found to have a brain tumour Today my husband wrote me a love letter. Well, if I'm honest, I'm not ...

Ted Buckley was the fourth of nine siblings—six boys and three girls—and the first in his family to study medicine. He founded the first neurosurgery service in the south of Ireland and the country’s ...

International experience could inform UK law, regulation, and clinical practice Organ donation after physician assisted dying has the potential to increase the availability of lifesaving organs while ...

Stark inequalities exist in the number and distribution of ethnic minority doctors in specialty roles, writes Sethina Watson In my region, including me, I know of only three black anaesthetists who ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) are being found just about everywhere we look, and they have now been found in our brains. A report in Nature Medicine ...

Black women in the UK are still more likely to die in childbirth than their white counterparts. Samara Linton explores why—and what’s being done to improve outcomes The UK has one of the lowest ...

Reproductive justice requires an intersectional approach, says Danielle Solomon Over the past decade inequities in reproductive outcomes among racially minoritised women have increasingly become a ...

Five years ago a BMJ investigation found that medical students were being let down by poor monitoring and responses to ...

Thousands of public health professionals have been dismissed from national US health agencies in sweeping layoffs by the ...

Nicaragua’s health ministry has confirmed that 30 people have been infected by the New World screwworm ( Cochliomyia ...