Intuition is the name we give to unconscious processes that can produce the right answer, even when we don’t know why. A gut feeling that something is wrong may be the detection of subtle yet ...

Justin was born in Cardiff in 1923 and educated at Cardiff High School. He was inspired from an early age to pursue a medical career and won a scholarship to study medicine at Westminster Hospital ...

Geoffrey Robb was a distinguished physician, educator, mentor, and philanthropist. He was educated at Epsom College and Bristol University, and qualified as a doctor in 1961. He later trained in ...

A world first gonorrhoea vaccine is being rolled out from today in England with the aim of reducing soaring cases and saving millions of pounds for the NHS. The programme will see local authority ...

Glasgow GP Muhammad Kausar wrote poetry as a way of coming to terms with his life as a migrant. On the one hand, he considered himself fortunate to have been able to build a life and a career far from ...

Falling vaccination rates and rising cases have raised concerns about the re-emergence of one of the world’s most contagious diseases. Kate Bowie examines whether current guidance needs revisiting The ...

The French government has been urged to stop US plans to destroy $9.7m (£7.4m; €8.4m) worth of contraceptives bought for foreign aid programmes funded by Biden-era contracts. The Trump administration ...

Doctors at all career stages struggle with imposter syndrome. Elisabeth Mahase hears how they tackle it Precious Oluwaniyi, 4th year medical student, says, “Unfortunately, imposter syndrome is ...

Caution is needed until the harms are better understood Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists have emerged as a promising treatment for obesity and diabetes. Over the past few years, ...

The emergency care plan’s lack of ambition should be clear.1 In each of the last three years more than 1.7 million patients took longer than 12 hours to leave emergency departments (by admission to a ...

As the region endures record-breaking heatwaves, heat-related illnesses are rising, yet medical education has yet to catch up. In June 2025, Jacobabad, Pakistan, recorded 52.2°C, one of the highest ...

The “publish or perish” doctrine has been responsible, at least in part, for many deleterious effects on academic practice. Many proposals have been made, outlining methods that might help mitigate ...