Medical academia is experiencing a “deepening crisis” that calls for immediate action, the outgoing acting president of the Academy of Medical Sciences has warned. In a letter to academy fellows, Paul ...

The judge who heads the High Court’s family division has warned of the risks of obtaining hormone prescriptions from online gender clinics, after an expert witness told the court that a teenager had ...

We need to define the concept of early diagnosis The importance of early diagnosis, particularly in cancer, has been covered widely in the media. Improving early diagnosis rates is a politically ...

Hristio Boytchev reveals how an ambitious deal between a leading medical education provider and the tobacco industry collapsed this week The medical education provider Medscape has bowed to pressure ...

These children are at risk of poor physical, emotional, mental, and social outcomes In March 2024, the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reported new data on household food insecurity for ...

Women in the US should begin breast cancer screening with mammography at age 40 and be screened every other year until the age of 74, the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended.1 US doctors ...

The BMA has asked the General Medical Council (GMC) to work with it to review the basis on which former GP and climate activist Sarah Benn found herself in front of a medical tribunal.1 Benn was ...

A global review of three decades of health data has revealed huge health differences in men and women that begin in adolescence and grow throughout life. The study, published in Lancet Public Health , ...

Plans by the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, to overhaul the sick note system in the UK have left me with mixed emotions. A more independent process, overseen by professionals skilled in occupational ...

A campaign group representing people affected by the UK infected blood scandal is calling on its members to lobby their MPs and working peers to save the compensation scheme. Former judge Brian ...

Over the past year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has grappled with the largest outbreak of mpox in the past half century. Despite obstacles, an enhanced response to the crisis can provide a ...

The kidney and liver transplantation programmes of a major hospital in Houston, Texas, have been suspended while authorities investigate claims that the surgeon in charge changed patients’ donor ...