In 1788, the Birmingham physician William Withering was consulted by an apothecary in Wellington, Shropshire, about the case ...

Connecting healthcare and financial wellbeing services can improve financial and emotional wellbeing for families ...

The Galleri multicancer detection blood test has been recommended by the US drug regulator’s expert advisory panel, despite ...

Any NHS staff member suspected of improperly and unlawfully accessing patients’ medical records will be immediately suspended ...

Scotland saw a spike in deaths related to drug use last year—with a fifth of deaths linked to a group of highly potent ...

To protect child health, the RCPCH should be bolder and braver in its own actions and its recommendations to government The ...

Doctors must be systematically trained in how to make clinical decisions under conditions of uncertainty, says England’s ...

Risk holding in the NHS is “not ideal for patients, and it is not ideal for doctors,” argues Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer. Delivering the inaugural BMJ annual lecture in partnership ...

Immigration status is kept as proxy for NHS experience Immigration status will be used as a proxy for significant NHS ...

US president Donald Trump is reportedly creating a board of political appointees to oversee grant making at the National ...

The proportion of young children in Gaza affected by wasting—a form of severe malnutrition—fell sharply in the months after a ...

A vascular surgeon has been suspended from the UK medical register for nine months for publishing antisemitic social media ...