It was a familiar scene in the lead-up to Christmas: husbands looking lost in highly perfumed, dazzlingly lit shops. An expensive lipstick or cashmere scarf, seldom actually wanted, was bought as a ...

As medical statisticians, we welcome revisions to the Declaration of Helsinki emphasising the importance of appropriate methods to reduce research waste.1 The declaration now states that rigorous ...

The prime minister, Keir Starmer, has unveiled new plans to radically transform the NHS in a bid to cut waiting lists.1 One new element is the promise that GPs will be able to order more tests ...

The 1990s were characterised by a rise in teenage smoking rates. Nostalgia for that decade shouldn’t see us undo progress against this public health threat, writes Caroline Cerny The 1990s are firmly ...

Authors, institutions, funders, and editors must be alert to the dangers A growing number of entities misrepresent themselves as scholarly journals for financial gain despite not meeting scholarly ...