John McKenzie Kennedy was born a twin in Aberdeen weighing 1.13 kg (2.5 lb). The family moved south to be closer to Southampton where his father was the captain of an oil tanker. John attended ...

Chris was born in Nottingham on 14 February 1946. While his career in medicine began as his father’s aspiration for him, he transformed this inheritance into a genuine vocation, serving countless ...

Arumugam Nallasivan, fondly known as Nally to his colleagues, graduated from Stanley Medical College in Chennai, India, and completed medical training in hospitals across the north of England. From ...

Vickers and colleagues’ recommendation to implement electronic blood management systems for transfusion safety is timely.1 Most reports made to the UK haemovigilance scheme, Serious Hazards of ...

China’s central government has intervened after hundreds of cases of lead poisoning at a private nursery in the country’s impoverished north west, days after local officials blamed industrial paint ...

Patients and clinicians deserve more rigorous reporting from the BMJ.

A new once daily triple drug treatment for cystic fibrosis is set to be “immediately funded” by NHS England following recommendation from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).1 ...

Gillian Leng has acknowledged that her “pragmatic” solution to the PA matter “won’t be universally popular.” Jacqui Wise summarises the reactions from medical leaders The BMA has criticised Gillian ...

The “appalling” sexual abuse of dead bodies in NHS hospital mortuaries by a necrophiliac killer could happen again unless the sector is regulated by law, an independent inquiry has concluded.1 David ...

A doctor who crossed double white lines to overtake a heavy goods vehicle and killed a motorcyclist travelling in the opposing lane has been jailed for three years for causing death by dangerous ...

Science reported that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) director, Jay Bhattacharya, dismissed all members of the agency’s top external advisory body, the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) ...

Wes Streeting was looking to end the “crazy” situation of UK doctors losing out on jobs to doctors from overseas.1 In May, the Times reported that he plans to announce that UK trained doctors will be ...