Ten years of austerity in the UK has pushed increasing numbers of people into poverty. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation recently reported that in 2019, 1,062,000 households in the UK were […]
The Trump Administration devoted itself to destroying the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls, seizing any and all opportunities to strip women and girls of bodily […]
An emergency law would protect healthcare professionals from inappropriate legal challenge when treating covid-19 patients in good faith […]
During the final weeks of 2020 I explored biomedical words that were labelled in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as having first appeared in print in the years from 1970 […]
Given the disproportionately negative impact of covid-19 on people with an intellectual disability, they should be prioritised in the UK’s vaccination programme, say Keri-Michèle Lodge, Christian Brown, and Sheila Hollins […]
The “vaccine postcode lottery”’ is driving morale of healthcare workers down in its random and seemingly unjust distribution, says Clara Munro I have worked in a non-clinical role at The […]
International travel is a major vector for current and future emerging pathogens. Consequently, controlling international borders is an important component of any strategy to limit global spread of novel pathogens. […]
A health emergency of this scale requires a strategic and systems-based approach […]
The fear and lack of confidence many junior doctors feel in interpreting and requesting scans is a problem that stems from medical school, writes Imrun Nagra […]
Sometimes, in the eye of the storm, it is difficult to see clearly. But many of the unforced errors that have occurred during the covid-19 pandemic could and should have […]
