The crisis in the UK’s medical workforce will be helped by new legislation that prioritises UK graduates for medical training ...

Neil Smart, consultant surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, leader of clinical trials, and editor in chief of ...

Members of the House of Lords have voted in favour of an amendment to a bill that would ban the use of social media among young people aged under 16 years. The decision is independent of a recently ...

A coalition of medical and public health groups have filed a legal motion to cancel changes to the childhood vaccine schedule ...

Jess’s rule” advises general practitioners to reconsider their approach if patients have had three appointments without ...

A treatment that restores normal kidney function in almost half of patients with lupus nephritis has been approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Obinutuzumab ...

Médecins Sans Frontières is striving to meet the needs of displaced people in Sudan, who are injured, malnourished, and ...

One of the most important advances to emerge from the covid-19 pandemic is the ability to measure population health at unprecedented scale and speed. Our study of time trends for long term conditions, ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research An editorial about D-dimers likens the endlessly talked about blood test to a fine wine. It’s nothing to do with its taste (I find it a bit claggy) or cost, but ...

Foreign body ingestion is common in young children, most often involving coins, magnets, or button batteries. Coins usually ...

A man in his 50s presented with a two week history of pruritic erythema and blisters on the trunk, which rapidly progressed across the body (fig 1). He had a 10 year history of hypertension treated ...

England’s child vaccination strategy is failing and the fact that so many children are at risk of life threatening diseases is a “national disgrace,” a damning report has found.1 MPs from the Health ...