A Janus word or phrase has two meanings, each the opposite of the other. Janus words are named after the two-faced Roman god ...

John Stuart Brown and Anne Brown John Stuart Brown was not the first GP to offer minor surgery in his practice, but he was ...

A new drive to tackle “rampant levels of bullying and harassment” experienced by ethnic minority staff in the health service ...

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Long covid and severe post-covid complications must be recognised as a prescribed industrial disease for health and social ...

Policies for research and practice must acknowledge how sex affects outcomes More than 109 million women globally are living ...

Children are now using e-cigarettes at higher rates than adults. Tom Gatehouse and colleagues argue for an approach to ...

Hospital leaders’ requests to exempt resident doctors from striking will not be granted if trusts do not properly ...

The NHS will be allowed to overspend this year to pay for planned staff redundancies, so as to halve the overall head counts ...

A hospital trust has been fined £565 000 over the death of a young woman in a mental health unit who killed herself with a ...

What you need to know A 58 year old man presents to his general practitioner (GP) to discuss recent blood test results after ...

Dobson emphasises the need for early interventions and more effective preventive measures to protect health in the UK.1 ...