The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accused several of America’s largest retail chains of “failing to remove” recalled infant formula products that have been linked to the country’s first ...

Launer notes that medical education nearly always loses out to service provision in healthcare.1 This reality has been magnified by the urgent need for trusts to deal with financial deficits, ...

Experts warn that the much heralded US-UK trade deal on pharmaceuticals will be an “absolute catastrophe” for NHS patients and will widen health inequalities. Jacqui Wise reports Earlier this month ...

Controversial changes to the GP contract have seen relations between the government and GP leaders sour in recent months, and the row is now threatening to spill over into next year’s negotiations.

Resident doctors in Scotland have voted to go on strike for four days in January, after accusing the Scottish government of breaking its promise on pay restoration. Scotland has been the only UK ...

The dispute between resident doctors and the Department of Health and Social Care has reached a point of deadlock, with more strikes happening in the run up to Christmas. Although pay restoration has ...

The BMA has said that it will adopt a “constructive spirit” to try to avoid further strike action by resident doctors in 2026, as the latest five day walkout came to an end on 22 December. Jack ...

Cultural competency is not enough for palliative medicine to build trust and offer good deaths to all, write Jamilla Akhter Hussain , Rekha Vijayshankar , and Mary Hodgson Death, dying, and grief are ...

With flu surging again, Stephen Reicher and colleagues draw on the experience of covid-19 to argue that predictable winter pressures demand more than individual responsibility, they also require ...

We live in a world of lies, damned lies, and AI hallucinations. A US publication calculated that Donald Trump told 30 573 lies during his first term as president.1 Trump is neither alone nor ...

In October 2025, foundation year one (FY1) doctors in England voted for industrial action against the UK government, not only over reduced pay but also, for the first time, over specialty training ...

At the time, effective treatment was still emerging, the UN response was fragmented, and some agencies were at odds over the ...