More than 200 women faced criminal charges after pregnancy loss, abortion, or birth in the year after the US Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion, analysis has found.12 The ...

The BMA has retracted its call for the UK government to lift the ban on prescribing puberty blockers to under 18s with gender dysphoria while the association conducts an evaluation of the Cass ...

The European Union must “wake up to the failure of self-regulation” if it is to improve its food environment and protect children from harmful advertising, campaigners have said. Academics and ...

When Laura Benjamin arrived in Malawi, she was the only neurologist in the country. As the stroke unit she helped establish—the country’s first and only—approaches its second anniversary, she and ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved xanomeline and trospium chloride capsules (Cobenfy) for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults. The drug is the first antipsychotic treatment ...

The GP contract in England needs to be revamped to focus on “three big shifts” in the delivery of care that the government identified in response to Ara Darzi’s recent review,1 the minister ...

Sexual safety campaigners have written to the health secretary Wes Streeting to call for action over what they deem a failure of medical schools to acknowledge the problem of sexual assault and abuse ...

A new drug for Alzheimer’s disease is causing excitement despite excess deaths, missing safety data, questionable efficacy, and financial conflicts of interest among the “independent” advisory ...

Reports of a “broken” NHS fail to convey the incredible work that still goes on in the service, writes Jennifer Darlow On his first day in office as the new Labour health minister, Wes Streeting ...

The word “academic” derives from Plato’s Academy, which he founded on ground that was named after the legendary Greek hero Academos, or Hekademos. And academic was someone who taught or studied at the ...

The US has seen a fivefold increase in the incidence of whooping cough cases this year from last year, shows preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).1 A total of ...

Amber Bennett-Weston and colleagues argue that greater patient involvement would benefit both patients and doctors Historically, patients were “wheeled in” to lecture theatres, often without consent, ...