The current model for managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) generally considers inhalers from the same therapeutic class to be clinically equivalent.1 When a long-acting muscarinic ...

The House of Lords has backed GPs’ calls to be exempt from a proposed tax hike that could “threaten” vital services. In October 2024 the chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, announced an ...

Actively challenging racism takes courage, Abi Rimmer hears “Racism, in all forms, has no place in healthcare. However, it does exist, and it leaves a devastating impact on colleagues and patients and ...

The BMA has agreed “in principle” to an £889m funding uplift to GPs’ contracts in England this year, on the condition that the government commits to negotiating a completely new national contract ...

Some English words are more euphonious than others, and some are more cacophonic. Here I discuss the latter, the ugliest English words, of which I have analysed 415 from a large number of published ...

It’s hard to ignore Donald Trump and the deep harm he’s inflicting on health, both in the US and worldwide (doi:10.1136/bmj.r370 doi:10.1136/bmj.r357 doi:10.1136/bmj.r356 doi:10.1136/bmj.r279 ...

Consultants at London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital, one of the world’s leading ophthalmology centres, have voiced serious concern over the leadership of the NHS trust, alleging a “culture of fear” and a ...

Doctors who were incorrectly told they passed a crucial medical exam only to be told 18 months later that they had failed have now been told that their applications to higher specialty training this ...

Health authorities have yet to identify the cause of outbreaks of a disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo that the World Health Organization has called “a significant public health threat.” Last ...

A coroner in Surrey has raised concerns about the role of physician associates (PAs) in the NHS in response to the death of a woman with abdominal pain who was wrongly diagnosed as having a nosebleed.

The new US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to halt its publicity campaign encouraging uptake of this year’s seasonal flu vaccine ...

Data submitted to the UK drugs regulator show a total of 82 deaths related to glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, the class of drugs used for weight loss and type 2 diabetes. Data from the ...