For the first time in more than a decade, the UK could be led by someone who can offer a vision of a healthier, wealthier future grounded in evidence and operational experience, write Martin McKee and ...

Under 18s with gender incongruence or dysphoria should have NHS access to cross sex hormones, the BMA says. Currently, new NHS prescriptions for these drugs are not permitted for this age group, but ...

An outbreak of hantavirus sparked by cases on a cruise ship is over, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. WHO’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the final contact of a ...

A committee of experts tasked with deciding if the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should loosen restrictions on peptides has members who stand to financially benefit from the move, critics have ...

A new case of Marburg disease has been registered in Uganda, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed. Teams are already on the ground to help the East African country stem the spread as it ...

Clare Bannon has been elected as the new chair of the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee for England (GPC England). Bannon, a GP in Barnsley and former deputy chair of GPC England, will succeed ...

Australia is stepping up its attempts to prevent children under 16 from accessing social media, a year on from becoming the first country in the world to enact a ban. In new moves, the Australian ...

Fundamental changes are needed to how doctors work in neonatal and maternity units that are “no longer fit for purpose” to ...

A study showing the effectiveness of covid-19 vaccines, initially pulled from publication by the US government in March this year, has finally been published. Originally slated for the Morbidity and ...

Samuel Cross, Karl Claxton, and Andrew Hill argue that diversion of billions of NHS funding to pay more for new drugs under ...

The largest maternity review in NHS history has laid bare a decade of systemic failure affecting more than 2500 families.1 ...

Policy makers need to focus on holding social media companies to account for the impact of their products, argues Louise ...