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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The life expectancy gap across different US population groups grew from 12.6 years in 2000 to 20.4 years in 2021, a study has found, showing an increase in racial and geographic health disparities ...

Fruit flavour “click” or “capsule” cigarettes are an expanding market for big tobacco companies despite their promises to cut smoking and protect young people. , Salud Con Lupa , and LaBot investigate ...

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