1 Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China 2 Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA 3 ...

Of the various types of academic misdemeanours and felonies, perhaps plagiarism is the most difficult and complex to study and write about. Even defining it is difficult. The US Office of Research ...

Around 2000 claimants in the UK are proposing to take legal action against Johnson & Johnson over claims that its talcum powder products caused cancer. The law firm KP Law has sent a letter before ...

US president elect Donald Trump has nominated Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and television celebrity doctor to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a large federal agency ...

Health workers, including doctors and other staff, staged a strike in Rome on 20 November in protest at proposals set out in the government’s budget. Anaao Assomed, Italy’s biggest trade union for ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research When it comes to peripherally inserted lines for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial ...

Measures of performance need to be meaningful The secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Streeting, has announced NHS league tables to guarantee “no more rewards for failure” in UK ...

A grassroots food assistance programme in Brazil that grew out of the pandemic is now trying to counter obesity and other ...

Chris and Elaine Brooks in a 1904 Quadrant motorbike Chris Brooks was dangling from the hoist of a Sea King helicopter over a ...

The response to the Olympian’s call for wider access to prostate cancer screening has been largely uncritical, Margaret McCartney finds Media coverage has been rightly sympathetic to Chris Hoy, one of ...

Breast cancer charities and patients are “devastated” that the drug Enhertu will not be available in England and Wales after negotiations collapsed over pricing. Jacqui Wise examines calls for NICE to ...

Distrust in science underpins the new administration The second term of office of US president elect Donald Trump looks set ...