This third article in a seven part series presents the Core GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach to deciding whether to rate down certainty of evidence ...

Iran’s medical training system is facing a rash of suicides, depression, and burnout, with increasing numbers of newly trained physicians leaving the country. Mohammad Saeed Gharaati Jahromi reports ...

Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale” was the rallying cry of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), published in 2008.1 It remains appropriate to the World Health ...

An alliance of regional African leadership and oversight of resource extraction is essential to promote stability, write Faraan O Rahim and coauthors On 25 April 2025, foreign ministers from ...

Outpatient care has been overlooked in policy and planning. The upcoming 10 year plan for health is an opportunity to rethink and reform the system, writes Theresa Barnes . Every day, I see patients ...

Two years after the start of civil war that has displaced 14 million people and taken tens of thousands of lives,1 Sudan continues to suffer under the complex effects of a humanitarian crisis, ...

The General Medical Council (GMC) has approved 33 courses to teach physician associates (PAs), the first time such degrees have been subject to formal quality assurance by the regulator.1 Three ...

Healthcare leaders and campaigners have warned that the withdrawal of ringfenced central funding for England’s maternity services will severely undermine efforts to improve safety. Analysis by the ...

Women living in US states that have abortion bans, such as Louisiana or Texas, are almost at twice the risk of dying during pregnancy, childbirth, or shortly after giving birth than women in states ...

We have made great improvements in treating cancer. I have friends, and probably you do as well, who are still alive with cancers that just a few years ago would have quickly killed them. They have ...

The UK’s drug representative body may expel the drug company Moderna over its handling of a case in which children were offered £1500 to participate in a clinical trial. The Prescription Medicines ...

Despite initiatives to reverse the trend, UK trained doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds and international medical graduates still have poorer academic outcomes than their white peers. Aisha ...