Staying calm and respectful can be challenging, but could make all the difference, Elisabeth Mahase hears Michael El Boghdady, senior trainee registrar in general surgery and director of education at ...
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Effective obesity care? Doctors could ask more about people’s lives and less about their weight
Doctors can reframe their consultations to focus on the whole person in front of them, and not the numbers on scales, says Ellen Fallows The latest guidelines on obesity from the National Institute ...
A much heralded overhaul of Poland’s health education programme has become a target for right wing and religious groups that could have major consequences for sexual health and disinformation. Anna ...
Israel’s “cynical and calculated” threat to ban aid organisations from the Gaza Strip could leave Palestinians without lifesaving medical care, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns. New rules mean ...
US officials have approved a daily pill version of Novo Nordisk’s injectable obesity drug Wegovy (semaglutide), opening the door to even more patients taking it. The “Wegovy pill”—cheaper than the ...
I am saddened to read the recent article regarding fake appointments. I first wrote on this issue in 2018 and had hoped the article would now be a historic document. I believe to punish an individual ...
A GP has been suspended from the UK medical register for five months for booking fake medical appointments so she could leave work in time to pick her children up from an after school club. Helen ...
Outbreaks of several infectious diseases in Cuba have killed dozens and are reportedly overwhelming the island’s hospitals and mortuaries. Cuba is confronting one of its most serious infectious ...
Gazans are struggling to survive in makeshift shelters after widespread heavy rain, flooding, and frigid temperatures caused sewage to overflow and brought high rates of respiratory infections and ...
In the remote islands of Chuuk state, Micronesia, tuberculosis has long been a silent crisis, spreading quietly through communities, often undiagnosed. For many decades, tuberculosis could only be ...
Almost one million people have signed up to a national diabetes prevention scheme, which has been shown to cut the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by more than a third. NHS England released details ...
A new consultation on expanding access to naloxone—which reverses the effects of opioid overdoses—to homeless shelters and other key locations has been launched by the UK government.1 Part of the plan ...
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