A landmark investigation with bearing on the future of gender identity services for children and adolescents has been pivotal ...

Launer highlights that many doctors have been called to activism over the decades, investing their knowledge and social ...

US officials have confirmed a second case of H5N1 bird flu in a human in the state of Michigan, only the third ever detected ...

Plans to slash Kenya’s health budget by two thirds in the next financial year will plunge the country into a health crisis ...

As many as 6% of the UK adult population—around 2.4 million people—might have a clinically confirmed food allergy, most frequently involving nuts and fresh fruits, according to a report from the Food ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) published the seventh version of the infection prevention and control guideline for coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in December 2023. The revision and ...

The medical workforce contains many doctors who are not consultants and who are not part of a recognised training programme. Specialist, associate specialist, and specialty doctors (SAS) and locally ...

Half the world’s population, across more than 50 countries, will be voting in national elections over the course of 2024. Research shows the mental and physical toll the process has on health, reports ...

As this column often mentions, regular physical exercise is an essential ingredient of a long and healthy life. But perhaps it is possible to take things too far? Could extreme levels of exercise ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research After all the debate over the past couple of years about lecanemab, we now have another type of Alzheimer’s disease treatment to discuss. According to the ...

Quality assurance checks of screening programmes could be delegated to local integrated care boards. Gareth Iacobucci looks at the implications Plans to devolve responsibility for quality assurance of ...

On 25 April, with the pay restoration dispute between the BMA’s Junior Doctors Committee and the government still unresolved, ...