Prostate cancer screening and the golden rule of humanity

The discussion around prostate cancer screening continues.1 I worked as a urologist for 30 years. When I was […]

US president and doctors speak out on the one year anniversary of the overturning of the right to abortion

Speeches, rallies, and demonstrations for and against abortion rights on the weekend of 23-25 June showed that abortion […]

Workplace pressures are forcing doctors to leave medicine, GMC warns

Urgent action must be taken to break the vicious cycle of unmanageable workloads and burnout that is causing […]

The mission to meet Ukraine’s surging demand for mental health treatment

Vitalii Panok and his family fled Kyiv for Berlin on the second day of the Russian invasion, queuing […]

Unintended consequences of measuring equity, diversity, and inclusion in medicine

Inequities, harassment, and discrimination are an ongoing problem in academic medicine. Numerous reports throughout North America and Europe […]

CHMP gives positive opinion recommending authorisation to GSK’s CKD drug

Chronic kidney disease affects roughly 700 million patients worldwide

AstraZeneca’s Soliris given EU CHMP recommendation for marketing authorisation

The authorisation would include certain patients with refractory generalised myasthenia gravis

Drug decelerates bacterial race to antibiotic resistance

Researchers report that, in laboratory cultures and animal models, a drug significantly reduces the ability of bacteria to […]

Repurposed drug shows promise for treating cardiac arrhythmias

Researchers invented a new reporting technique to monitor activity of CaMKII while screening the effects of nearly 5,000 […]

When I use a word . . . A short glossary of medical slang

Defining slangI have previously defined medical terminology as a spectrum of types, from high to low1:technical terms—jargon—slang—colloquialisms—cant.The imperfections […]