David Landon was born in 1936 in London. At the outbreak of war the family moved to Horsham and then in 1940 to his mother’s native Australia. His father meanwhile had joined the army, returning to ...

An executive order by Donald Trump promising to “restore the American people’s faith in the scientific enterprise” would ...

A new strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that seems better adapted to infect people is fuelling a fresh wave of covid-19 sweeping through Asia and the Western Pacific region and is increasingly showing up ...

People in the UK and more likely to get cancer than 50 years ago but less likely to die from it, Cancer Research UK says.1 ...

A reset of the global aid system must be guided by key principles to respond to current challenges and rebuild global ...

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has called for more support for GP partnerships to “remain a realistic option” for general practice among other approaches to working in primary care.

Drug industry stock prices dropped when Donald Trump announced his intention to lower drug prices through executive decree, but in the end the markets had the final word. Share prices fell in early ...

The Trump administration has revoked guidance that required hospitals to provide emergency abortions to stabilise a patient’s condition even in states with severe abortion restrictions—but in a way ...

Callum was appointed as a consultant geriatrician and general physician at West Middlesex Hospital in 2002, after registrar training in London. He was a highly respected clinician who initiated and ...

Women who take weight loss drugs should use barrier contraception if they are seeking to avoid pregnancy, the medicines regulator has advised. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency ...

For a moment, McCartney’s article had me questioning the role of a consultant in exercise medicine.1 Exercise isn’t a medication; we do not need to prescribe parkrun. These points are valid for people ...

A £450m government plan to improve urgent and emergency care in England and avert a winter crisis could have shown more ambition in tackling longer waiting times, doctors’ leaders have said. The Royal ...