A system allowing drugs to be approved in the UK by other “trusted” regulators such as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is sparking concern among experts. They say the strategy risks lowering ...

Campaigners are dismayed that a new “milkshake tax” aiming to “give children a healthier start to life” does not include growing-up or toddler milks despite evidence that these are a hefty source of ...

As I get older, I’m glad to see changing attitudes to inappropriate behaviours. Yet bad behaviours persist, including sexual harassment. A recent BMA report highlighted that, of 968 survey respondents ...

Allison Joyce/Getty Images Friendship, a project dedicated to helping vulnerable communities in Bangladesh prepare for natural disasters and that also supports their health, education, and livelihoods ...

An Australian inquiry into women’s pain has found a high prevalence of chronic pain, with most respondents having symptoms ignored, dismissed, or minimised by healthcare professionals.1 The inquiry, ...

Matthew Berryman describes the pressure he felt to recover within a defined timeframe following his haemorrhagic stroke Around one week after having a haemorrhagic stroke, I was told by healthcare ...

Responding negatively to patients who miss appointments is likely to further discourage attendance since their absence may be indicative of deeper challenges, write Adam Polnay and Adam Burley When a ...

The UK covid inquiry’s latest report focused on political decisions made during the pandemic. Jacqui Thornton summarises the key lessons All four UK governments were too slow to respond to the ...

In lectures to medical students Andy Whitelaw would talk about a girl with cerebral palsy he knew as a young child. She could not walk or talk and such was the lasting impression she made that he ...

Ongoing attacks, trickling aid, and flooding mean that Gaza and its doctors are in for a tough winter, Elisabeth Mahase hears Despite working for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for over 22 years, ...

US health officials are planning to tighten vaccine approval processes, based on a review of data, which they claim shows that 10 children died from covid-19 vaccinations. Marty Makary, commissioner ...

Health officials have made no apology after being accused of distorting doctors’ views on BMA strike action through a “propagandist” briefing of polling data to the media. “Five days of NHS strikes ...