When Stuart Stanton trained to be a gynaecologist, treatment for women with stress incontinence was barely a consideration. Women had been suffering in silence for years but rarely approached doctors ...

At a population level, adding fluoride to drinking water may have less of an effect than it used to, researchers have concluded. A detailed Cochrane review by UK researchers concluded that the benefit ...

Mike Hale grew up in Oldbury, West Midlands, and was head boy at Halesowen Grammar School where he excelled at rugby. He studied medicine at Cardiff University where he was also active in the ...

Russell Ballantyne was born in Motherwell and studied medicine at Glasgow University. Here he met fellow medical student, Mary McArthur, to whom he was married for 59 years. After national service as ...

Ireland based pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences has said it will grant licences to six generic manufacturers to produce low cost lenacapavir, which has shown unprecedented efficacy at preventing ...

Coded general practice data about patients in England will soon be able to be shared with approved research groups, the government has announced. Researchers have called it a “momentous step” that ...

Breast cancer cases among US women rose every year from 2012 to 2021, especially among women under 50. The number of deaths has, however, dropped by about 10% in the past decade, according to two ...

Peter was born in Sutton, Surrey, where he spent his early childhood. At the onset of the second world war he was evacuated to Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He completed his schooling at Epsom College ...

Forty fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London have called for the chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to correct her assertion that there is a lack of evidence for medical ...

A bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people in England and Wales is expected to be introduced in the House of Commons on 16 October. The bill will be introduced by the Labour MP Kim ...

Satish Chander Chib was a dedicated GP in South Yorkshire for over 40 years. Born in Gujranwala, India (now Pakistan), he moved with his family to Delhi during partition in 1947. He was an ...

Murid was born in Kenya and joined Leeds Medical School in 1967 to achieve his lifelong ambition of becoming a surgeon. After qualification he trained in Westminster and Southend before joining Guy’s ...