Some 1200 patients a year in England are set to benefit from a “breakthrough” life extending treatment for bladder cancer after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved it ...

Health interventions can help remedy many of the hazards around us, whether disease, discomfort, uncertainty, or instability. Drugs for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have proved useful to ...

The New York City Health Department has reported five deaths and 108 confirmed cases of legionnaires’ disease, a type of pneumonia, since the outbreak in Harlem was identified on 25 July. It seems to ...

A right-hand dominant man in his 50s who, six weeks previously, had undergone washout of a volar thumb wound, presented to the plastic surgery clinic with a one week history of erythematous cutaneous ...

I agree with Smith and colleagues’ key recommendations about NHS management reform.1 But three additional systemic changes are needed. Firstly, the framework used for investigating doctors and ...

CQC highlights risks of filling rota gaps with PAs Great Ormond Street Hospital’s use of physician assistants (PAs) to fill gaps in its surgical rota raises concerns over supervision and decision ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research The Eatwell Guide follows recommendations by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), and focuses on macronutrients such as carbohydrates and fat, ...

Maternity and neonatal care services are badly in need of an overhaul at national level to improve safety locally, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) has warned in a review. The ...

More than 5000 doctors have signed petitions calling on their royal colleges to be more vocal on the situation in Gaza and to work together to advocate for a ceasefire and the protection of health ...

Doctors could soon be offering sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors as a first line treatment option for all patients with diabetes, not just those with heart disease.1 The change has ...

Experts are concerned by claims—including possible future treatments for autism and diabetes—made about the value of banking baby teeth. Emma Wilkinson reports Video 1 Journalist Emma Wilkinson joins ...

Individuals should be held to account for environmental damage In May 2025, Scotland joined a growing global movement by introducing a bill to criminalise “ecocide.”1 Twelve countries have already ...