Multiple health organisations have joined forces to call on the government to make physical punishment of children illegal in England. Thirteen organisations led by the Royal College of Paediatrics ...

The United Nations aid chief has rebuked Israel’s proposed new plan for militarily controlled aid distribution for Gaza, describing it as a “fig leaf for further violence and displacement” of ...

MPs have criticised the lack of a clear plan for the forthcoming abolition of NHS England and the halving of staff in integrated care boards across the country, demanding that the government set out ...

The number of people dying prematurely after long waits in hospital emergency departments before admission rose by a fifth in England last year, an analysis has found. The analysis by the Royal ...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has said that it cannot support proposed legislation in its current form that would make assisted dying legal in England and Wales. The college issued a briefing on ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research There’s certainly a gap in the market for an effective third or fourth line antihypertensive. A trial of lorundrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, found a ...

A report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Doctors of the World UK (DOTW) has called for the closure of Wethersfield, a site that houses male asylum seekers, because of its unsuitability and the ...

Higginson and Ramjeeawon emphasise the importance of timely, multiprofessional, skilled palliative care to improve outcomes for patients and carers.1 They touch on the need to ensure that the ...

In early April 2020, staff at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust gathered to prepare for the wave of covid-19 patients they knew were coming their way. The UK’s first lockdown had been announced a ...

I visited China for the first time. I was there to teach narrative medicine—what health professionals can learn through listening to people’s stories and how much difference this can make to medical ...

The US health secretary’s campaign slogan echoed that of his boss, Donald Trump. But what does Robert F Kennedy Jr mean by “Make America Healthy Again”—and can he succeed? Simon Williams reports ...

This man in his early 40s from rural China presented to the emergency department with a six day history of an oedematous, ulcerated, and pruritic rash on his right upper limb, extending progressively ...