Lung disease piling on the pressure in A&E

The perennial outrage over emergency winter pressure in NHS hospitals is now subsiding. As usual, we have seen the blame game and finger-wagging headlines about...

A new boost for leukaemia treatment

Leukaemia treatment can be made more effective by using a drug for iron overload, according to new research. Scientists led by a team at Imperial...

Why we support more tax on diesel

Increased tax on new diesel vehicles is a welcome move, but there is still much more to be done to tackle the air pollution crisis,...

All you need to know about snoring

Snoring may inspire jokes but it is no laughing matter if you are one of the estimated 40 per cent of adults affected in the...

Heart Rhythm Congress in 12th year

Twelve years ago, the first Heart Rhythm Congress took place at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham with an invited audience of 850. I am...

A crisis in care for people with lung disease

People who are dying from interstitial lung disease are wasting the precious time they have left finding their way around an ineffective and unnecessarily complicated...

Populist threat to core values of medicine

The populist radical right is a threat to core values of medicine and public health, even within a functioning democratic system, according to a commentary published today by the Journal of...