Multifaceted actions are needed to better identify and challenge underlying patriarchal and socioeconomic factors affecting ...

Heart attacks and strokes rise exponentially with age and make a major contribution to increasing healthcare costs and lost productivity. In the UK more than 7 million people are living with ...

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS trust is investigating allegations that healthcare staff illegally accessed medical records of the victims of a stabbing attack that left three people dead. Barnaby ...

PAs want robust research evaluating their practice, but adequate funding is needed, write Tamara S Ritsema and Amy Donaldson-Perrott Over the past year, a firestorm of debate has been swirling around ...

US presidential campaign Donald Trump declared that “the most beautiful word in the dictionary today is the word ‘tariff.’” His definition of a tariff is a tax that a government imposes on foreign ...

The BMA has announced plans to take legal action over an exam error that left some doctors facing the risk of unemployment. The error affected nearly 300 candidates who sat part 2 of the membership of ...

A freeze on federal funding for science will be bad for the economy and business, as well as hugely harmful to the scientific community, write Esther Choo and Joshua Barocas In case you’ve missed it, ...

For the first time ever the UK has more female than male doctors, with 164 440 women (50.04%) and 164 195 men (49.96%) registered with a licence to practise, show data from the General Medical Council ...

More advanced methods may enable better modelling Parkinson’s disease is a considerable health problem owing to its high and rising global prevalence, its progressively degenerative nature, and its ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has decided to reconsult on draft guidance for Alzheimer’s treatments donanemab and lecanemab, six months after initially rejecting the ...

Much attention has been focused on the Trump administration’s rollback of women’s health and rights. But their alternative model of global health multilateralism will be equally damaging, writes ...

Stephen Powis, NHS England’s national medical director and one of the government’s most prominent communicators during the covid-19 pandemic, is to step down this summer.1 His departure, announced on ...