When a patient uses swear words during a painful procedure, it can be a little unsettling...

Happy New Year to all our readers and contributors – we hope you had a chance...

The importance of the gut microbiome hardly needs restating. Recent years have seen a welcome recognition...

Nature continues to offer unexpected leads in medicine, with researchers uncovering new compounds that may help...

New research from the University of California and the University of Adelaide is attempting to challenge...

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A new study by researchers from the UK and Finland has concluded that myocardial infarction (MI)...

Any physician with a rudimentary knowledge of medical history has probably heard of Mr Robert Liston...

In this issue, Drs Sunder Mehran Khan and Afshan Afshan have penned an insightful and thought-provoking...

Finding humour in daily life has many positive psycho-social benefits – but what about when we...

A recent article in Mayo Clinic Proceedings makes a compelling case for why doctors should listen...

Making a diagnosis and deciding on a treatment plan can be complicated enough. But a much...