Thambirajah was born in Kuppilan, a village in the north of Sri Lanka. From these humble beginnings he showed relentless focus and commitment to become a doctor. He attended Skandavarodaya College, ...

Family planning clinics have sued the Trump administration for holding back around $65m (£49m; €57m) to provide contraception, testing for sexually transmitted infections and cervical cancer, and ...

In his article on the demise of NHS England, Abbasi says that “public health is a shadow of the force it once was.”1 This implies that public health, having returned to local ...

Abolishing NHS England and reducing staffing of integrated care boards by 50% might seem substantial, but the projected savings—around £500m annually if fully achieved1—would represent only a modest ...

Metformin produced a moderate reduction in the pain of people with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity, according to a small randomised controlled trial. The study authors say that the ...

Medical students in Sudan are facing violence, instability, and disruptions to their education. As two years have passed since the start of the war, urgent international support is needed more than ...

A call for mandatory cancer warning labels on alcohol has raised questions on both sides of the US-Canada border. Jasmine Ryu Won Kang reports Data show that alcohol related deaths increased by 18% in ...

Pete was the youngest of three sons of psychiatrists Harry and Carol Crow and grew up in a small village outside Bristol. He graduated from Sheffield in 1981, where he was a popular student and forged ...

America’s position as the world’s dominant nation began after World War II with the appreciation that science played an outsized role in winning the war. For that reason, the US decided that the ...

Practecal, a phase 2b-3 randomised controlled trial which identified a new treatment regimen for drug resistant tuberculosis (TB), cost €33.9m (£28.95n; $38.54m), with an average cost of €61 460 per ...

Shortages of pharmaceutical products have been with us for many years. The earliest example of which I am aware dates back to 1942. Currently over 100 products are in shortage, including hormone ...

The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) has become the latest and most high profile journal to receive a letter from Edward Martin Jr, a Republican activist who was appointed US attorney for ...