This week a United Nations motion demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza was vetoed by one country—the US.1 The result: more death and destruction. Donald Trump’s administration began by cutting ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to conduct reviews into the abortion drug mifepristone, infant formula, and talc, while health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr expressed support for broader ...

Six well known senior clinicians have urged resident doctors to reject a call from the BMA for strike action over pay, arguing that such action would be futile and damaging. A letter signed by Clare ...

Improves fibrosis and steatohepatitis Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) encompasses a broad clinical spectrum, ranging from simple steatosis to metabolic ...

Growing numbers of US physicians are joining unions, seeing them as a way to regain autonomy in the face of the corporatisation of healthcare. Ella Hubbard reports “They somehow found a way to upset ...

A new strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that seems better adapted to infect people is fuelling a fresh wave of covid-19 sweeping through Asia and the Western Pacific region and is increasingly showing up ...

People in the UK and more likely to get cancer than 50 years ago but less likely to die from it, Cancer Research UK says.1 ...

Overstocking of a medicinal product is defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as “Excess stocks of products, which exceed current demand at a given time.” Overstocking of a product can lead to ...

Renewed focus on improving social care is required Dementia is the leading cause of death in England and Wales,1 and 982 000 people are estimated to have a form of dementia in the UK.2 Although there ...

Drug industry stock prices dropped when Donald Trump announced his intention to lower drug prices through executive decree, but in the end the markets had the final word. Share prices fell in early ...

More than half (58%) of resident doctors surveyed by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) do not believe the process for medical training recruitment is fair, while just 44% are satisfied or very ...

Chemical castration” hit the headlines after the government published plans to ease prison overcrowding. Ella Hubbard explores this and other proposals An independent sentencing review commissioned by ...