A consultant psychiatrist has been struck off the UK medical register after a tribunal found that he had engaged in “scaremongering” over coronavirus vaccines in an online video. Daniel Armstrong ...

The last major hospital in northern Gaza is now out of commission after a raid by Israeli forces left its surgical unit, medical store, and laboratory “burnt and severely damaged.” Staff and ...

Davis and colleagues highlight the critical need for clearer and more accessible information about medicines for patients.1 As an anaesthetist, I often encounter challenges in communicating the risks ...

Absolutely. As the name suggests, Veganuary encourages people to go vegan at the start of every year. Exactly! And eating more leaves too. The benefits of a plant based diet are well documented.1 It’s ...

Pilot medical apprenticeship programmes in England, which were being trialled as a new route into the profession, have been paused by the government. Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, one of the ...

Preliminary laboratory findings suggest that a mystery illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a combination of common and seasonal viral respiratory infections and malaria, the World ...

New administration has pledged massive reform but said little on how to achieve it The incoming US administration has signalled its intent to make large changes to the federal government’s approach to ...

Palliative medicine specialist Michael Blaber talks to Helen Jones about how his role can make a difficult time for patients and their families a little bit better “I’ve always been fascinated by the ...

Credit: Rowena Sheehan Far too many people dying and grieving remain undersupported and feared. Dying is “as natural and inevitable a transition as birth,” says Lucy Selman, an expert in dying and ...

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Objective To evaluate the cognitive abilities of the leading large language models and identify their susceptibility to cognitive impairment, using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and ...

We have seen that when a set of observations have a Normal distribution multiples of the standard deviation mark certain limits on the scatter of the observations. For instance, 1.96 (or approximately ...