Allocating placeholder roles to incoming foundation doctors undermines their value to the NHS, writes Éabha Lynn Almost one thousand doctors about to start their careers in the UK have found ...

The government has committed to drive down antibiotic use in the UK, improve surveillance for drug resistant infections before they emerge, and incentivise research into new drugs and vaccines. Its ...

Five infants died after developing whooping cough in England in the first three months of 2024, the UK Health Security Agency has reported.1 Altogether there were 1319 confirmed cases of whooping ...

The Israeli military has launched a ground incursion into Rafah, southern Gaza, despite warnings from aid organisations that this would have “catastrophic consequences” for the 1.3 million displaced ...

Let’s spare a thought for the women paving the way in male dominated specialties, writes Clara Munro A recent paper from the Institute for Fiscal Studies has gathered data confirming what many women ...

The BMJ has recently published two articles that acknowledge an important elephant in the room of NHS funding.12 Appleby and colleagues point out that, to secure the future of the NHS, decision makers ...

The asthma drug montelukast (Singulair) will carry more prominent warnings in the UK to alert doctors and patients to its potentially serious behavioural and neuropsychiatric side effects. Previously ...

Giving greater attention to the specific challenges facing doctors in training is a necessary step towards improving working conditions and wellbeing, writes Alexander Mafi The working conditions of ...

A decision by the drug manufacturer Moderna to drop plans to set up its first mRNA vaccine manufacturing plant outside the United States in Nairobi, Kenya, should be seen as a wake-up call to ...

The UK government is trying to highlight the importance of health checks for men and improving access as part of wider work to improve men’s health, the health minister Maria Caulfield has told MPs.

In an exclusive BMJ interview the shadow health secretary outlines how he will tackle the NHS workforce crisis if given the chance, his take on junior doctors’ industrial action, and how he could ...

Carrie S, O’Hara J, Fouweather T, et al. Clinical effectiveness of septoplasty versus medical management for nasal airways obstruction: multicentre, open label, randomised controlled trial. BMJ ...