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Election watch: What are the main parties promising on health?

ConservativesOn 1 June the Conservative Party promised to provide more treatment in the community if it won the […]

June 4, 2024 Uncategorized

Protein discovery could help prevent cancer treatment-related heart damage

Blocking a protein known as CDK7 could prevent heart damage associated with a commonly used cancer chemotherapy medication, […]

June 3, 2024 Uncategorized

When I use a word . . . The languages of medicines—trade names, proprietary names, or brand-names

Naming medicinesAs I have previously outlined,1 a medicine can have up to four types of names, distinguishing what […]

June 1, 2024 Uncategorized

Gaza: Just one working hospital remains in Rafah, as healthcare worker death toll reaches 500

Civilians in Rafah, in southern Gaza, are “once again in search of safety that doesn’t exist,” as Israeli […]

June 1, 2024 Uncategorized

Pandemic treaty: panel calls for “reset” to talks as negotiators miss deadline

Negotiations of a World Health Organization (WHO) global pandemic accord need a “reset” after member states failed to […]

May 31, 2024 Uncategorized

Medical institutions must treat the Cass review as a significant event and act upon it

Publication of the Cass review in April 2024 was a seminal moment in contemporary medicine. Hilary Cass, a […]

May 31, 2024 Uncategorized

Cardiovascular toxicity of immune therapies for cancer

In this article by Palaskas and colleagues (BMJ 2024;385:e075859, doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-075859, published 15 May 2024), a minor change has […]

May 31, 2024 Uncategorized

New antibiotic kills pathogenic bacteria, spares healthy gut microbes

Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute […]

May 30, 2024 Uncategorized

Drug resistance discovery could ‘move the field forward’ for breast cancer treatment

New research has revealed a previously unknown biological process through which breast tumor cells develop resistance to standard […]

May 30, 2024 Uncategorized

Sudan: Aid workers describe “bloodbath” in Darfur as hospitals are repeatedly attacked

Sudan’s South Hospital in El Fasher (also known as Al-Fashir), the capital city of North Darfur state, has […]

May 30, 2024 Uncategorized

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