• Covid-19: Government faces legal challenge over “failure to protect care home residents”
• Covid-19: US cases drop overall but increase among children
• Helen Salisbury: Saȷid Javid’s missed opportunity
• Author’s reply to Cohn and Freedman and Greenberg
• Matt Morgan: How watching Friends may prevent your next complaint
• Acute urinary retention and risk of cancer: population based Danish cohort study

Covid-19: Government faces legal challenge over “failure to protect care home residents”

Two women who lost their fathers to covid-19 are legally challenging what they describe as the government?s failure to protect care home residents during the pandemic.Cathy Gardner and Fay Harris...

Covid-19: US cases drop overall but increase among children

Hospital admissions for covid-19 among children aged 5-11, who are not yet eligible for vaccination, have reached an all time high in the US, with 1.1 hospital admissions per 100 000 for the week...

Helen Salisbury: Saȷid Javid’s missed opportunity

England?s secretary of state for health and social care did not attend his face-to-face appointment with 1500 GPs at their annual conference last week. He was offered the opportunity of a video...

Author’s reply to Cohn and Freedman and Greenberg

The one feature of the assisted dying debate that everyone can agree on is that there are powerful arguments on both sides. Carey and I certainly respect those who oppose our support for it, as I...

Matt Morgan: How watching Friends may prevent your next complaint

The opening bar of the theme tune for the TV programme Friends takes me straight back to my teenage years, nearly three decades ago. Yet, like many medical treatments, old fashioned trends often come...

Acute urinary retention and risk of cancer: population based Danish cohort study

AbstractObjectiveTo examine the risk of urogenital, colorectal, and neurological cancers after a first diagnosis of acute urinary retention.DesignNationwide population based cohort study.SettingAll...