General practices and hospitals have been urged to act after a fatal mix-up in which a patient’s penicillin allergy was incorrectly recorded as a penicillamine allergy in their GP record. The death of ...

A monthly injection of a monoclonal antibody helped 90% of patients with severe asthma to reduce their daily oral steroid tablets, researchers have found. Half of patients in the single arm, open ...

Rolewicz and colleagues explain how the UK’s crackdown on immigration threatens the NHS workforce.1 I am worried about the kind of Britain that Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, is planning to build ...

Gender affirming care (GAC) for under 18s in the US falls short of the standards expected for medical treatment, a new government report claims. The report, by the US Department of Health and Human ...

The introduction of the contraceptive pill in 1961 heralded a sexual revolution for women in the UK. For Jill Tattersall, who had trained in obstetrics and gynaecology, it proved a career defining ...

A British Palestinian doctor who made allegedly antisemitic posts on social media has been suspended from the UK medical register for 15 months while her fitness to practise is investigated. Rahmeh ...

A trial of lenacapavir showed 100% protection against HIV infection. But cuts to foreign aid and criticism over its pricing put the brakes on a worldwide rollout. Elna Schütz asks if we’re now seeing ...

Government ‘withholding data that may link covid jab to excess deaths’,” read the headline in the Telegraph . “Health chiefs accused of a ‘cover up’ after failing to reveal data that may link covid ...

Hundreds of thousands of children are set to be lifted out of poverty, as the UK government has announced that it will end the limit restricting universal credit support to two children per family.

As a final year medical student who is transitioning to a career in medicine after a 25 year career in professional services, I’m pleased that NHS England has mandated a 10 point plan to improve the ...

Adding fluoride to drinking water has no negative effect on cognitive ability and may even confer a small cognitive benefit, research has found.1 The finding comes as the public health practice of ...

The case for a greater focus on medical “expert generalists” in the NHS has been in the health policy news recently. The NHS England diagnostic review of postgraduate medical training, which I ...