Peter was born in Bradford, where his father was a carpenter, and he had one sister, Anne. He attended school in Bradford, proceeding to medical school in Edinburgh, where he was a keen athlete. This ...

The selective noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor atomoxetine and stimulants (amphetamines and methylphenidate) are the “most effective treatments” for managing the symptoms of attention ...

What price experience? I have been working across several safety critical industries for years and in terms of the approaches that these industries take to workforce issues there are some stark ...

Scandinavia’s high tax model thrives on shared narratives, experience, and priorities. Equality, trust, and a demand for good quality public services both create and reflect a cohesive and content ...

Literature has long sounded ecological alarms and imagined our planetary futures, finds Lakshmi Krishnan Our oldest stories begin in the soil or by the sea, myth being the original ecological ...

Fairy tales offer opportunities to engage with children about healthy and disordered sleep, say Megan Thomas and colleagues Healthy sleep is a public health priority, with at least a third of children ...

Physician associates (PAs) must “never function as a senior decision maker,” and resident doctors should never be made responsible for supervising them, says interim guidance from the Royal College of ...

Nishi qualified in 1991 from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. She chose oncology as her specialty and rapidly developed her expertise in this area. She gained membership of the Royal ...

Women aged 30 to 65 should be screened for cervical cancer every five years with a test for human papillomavirus, the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended in draft recommendations.1 For ...

Leslie was born in Southampton in 1928 but when he was 8 his family returned to Aberdeen, which remained his spiritual home. He qualified from Aberdeen University in 1951 and his first house job was, ...

Conflict and attacks on healthcare must cease, as without peace there can be no health, writes WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus War and disease are old friends. In the Napoleonic wars and the ...