Women who take weight loss drugs should use barrier contraception if they are seeking to avoid pregnancy, the medicines regulator has advised. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency ...

The BMJ commission’s radical vision for revolutionising academic medicine by 2050 is welcomed,1 and its application to doctors in training cannot be understated. In particular, including real patients ...

A new strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that seems better adapted to infect people is fuelling a fresh wave of covid-19 sweeping through Asia and the Middle East and is increasingly showing up in the UK.

More than half (58%) of resident doctors surveyed by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) do not believe the process for medical training recruitment is fair, while just 44% are satisfied or very ...

These are grim times, when the global political landscape of our era is dissolving. Under Donald Trump’s second presidency, the United States is swinging rapidly towards isolationism and autocracy.

Improves fibrosis and steatohepatitis Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) encompasses a broad clinical spectrum, ranging from simple steatosis to metabolic ...

Chemical castration” hit the headlines after the government published plans to ease prison overcrowding. Ella Hubbard explores this and other proposals An independent sentencing review commissioned by ...

I can’t stop thinking about the BMA’s recent warning that as many as 1000 newly qualified GPs may struggle to find jobs this year.1 It’s not just a number: it’s a stark symbol of a system that has ...

The US government has hastened to correct multiple citations in its first Make Our Children Healthy Again assessment,1 which pointed to non-existent studies or dead internet links. New errors have ...

A reset of the global aid system must be guided by key principles to respond to current challenges and rebuild global ...

People in the UK and more likely to get cancer than 50 years ago but less likely to die from it, Cancer Research UK says.1 ...

Growing numbers of US physicians are joining unions, seeing them as a way to regain autonomy in the face of the corporatisation of healthcare. Ella Hubbard reports “They somehow found a way to upset ...