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Resident doctors given 48 hours to call off strike or lose 4500 specialty training places, in new ultimatum from Starmer
Reimagining healthcare regulation to enable improvement, learning, and safety
Amid growing pressures, Josje Kok and colleagues argue that healthcare regulation must evolve beyond compliance driven approaches
Reimagining healthcare regulation to enable improvement, learning, and safety
Amid growing pressures, Josje Kok and colleagues argue that healthcare regulation must evolve beyond compliance driven approaches
The wellness inspired rise of continuous glucose monitors for people without diabetes
Wellness trends are leading people who don’t have diabetes to buy continuous glucose monitors as a healthcare wearable. Hanan Hammad reports
The wellness inspired rise of continuous glucose monitors for people without diabetes
Wellness trends are leading people who don’t have diabetes to buy continuous glucose monitors as a healthcare wearable. Hanan Hammad reports
Palantir: New York Hospitals ends contract amid protests
The US’s largest municipal healthcare network is to terminate a data analytics contract with the technology company Palantir after protests and public pressure to end the deal
Palantir: New York Hospitals ends contract amid protests
The US’s largest municipal healthcare network is to terminate a data analytics contract with the technology company Palantir after protests and public pressure to end the deal
NHS England’s vision for the NHS App—a “lifelong companion” available 24/7
Rammya Mathew: The debate on assisted dying must not overshadow care at the end of life
Doctors’ freedom of speech must be protected from punitive scrutiny
Helen Salisbury: Why confidentiality matters in general practice
UK pessary care guidelines overlook implementation challenges
The GP using poetry to connect with creative medics and find catharsis
The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern
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PAs will not receive CTTs, officials say, amid GMC reform fears
Scientists turn plastic waste into Parkinson’s drug
British Palestinian doctor Rahmeh Aladwan is charged with supporting Hamas
Bird flu: First human case of H9N2 in Europe
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GPs in England overwhelmingly reject contract changes
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Doctors condemn expansion of GMC’s appeal powers after government “betrayal”
Research
Peer support intervention (ABA-feed) to improve breastfeeding
Medial retropharyngeal nodal region sparing radiotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Home based, tailored intervention to reduce rate of falls after stroke
Effect of a clinical decision support system on stroke care quality and outcomes in patients with acute ischaemic stroke
Accuracy of glomerular filtration rate estimation based on creatinine and cystatin C for monitoring moderate chronic kidney disease in adults
Pyrotinib or placebo in combination with trastuzumab and docetaxel for HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer
Chemotherapy for gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma
Prenatal antiseizure drug exposure and risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children
Prognostic score for predicting respiratory admissions among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care
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Countering health harms from eroded US Environmental Protection Agency
Religious determinants of health and foreign aid cuts: no thank you for your inattention
The conversation around decriminalising abortion must be grounded in evidence
Increase in remote overseas primary care consultations
AI for detecting paper mill papers
Student loans scandal: young doctors are paying the price
Easing parenting challenges in the primary care workforce
Younger adults are the fastest growing cancer population, but England’s national cancer plan overlooks them
Rethinking eGFR monitoring in chronic kidney disease
Special educational needs reforms are a good start to resolving the crisis in schools—but where is the focus on health?
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Advances in the pathophysiology and treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy
Assessment and prevention of falls in older people and in people 50 and over at higher risk—summary of updated NICE guidance
Living with an increased risk of cancer
New and emerging treatments for anxiety disorders
See me as a person, not a patient
Summary of WHO clinical practice guidelines for influenza
Psychedelic medicine: mechanisms, evidence, and translation to practice
Young man with rectal bleeding
Black pleural effusion
Regulation of journals . . . and other stories
Linking my chronic pain with trauma
Management of obsessive-compulsive disorder in adults
Assessment and management of galactorrhoea
Tapering of antidepressants . . . and other stories
Attacks on healthcare
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Rethinking care for multiple long term conditions: beyond guidelines for single diseases
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Making clinical guidelines work for people with multiple long term conditions: analysis and recommendations from review of single condition guidelines
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Identifying and avoiding design related biases in observational studies using the target trial framework
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Smoking cessation for people with severe mental illness: systematic review and network meta-analysis
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