More than 400 military personnel who suffered side effects from the antimalarial drug mefloquine (Lariam) have finally reached a settlement with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) after a nine year ...

The £3.4bn NHS England (NHSE) spent on trying to bring down waiting lists for elective care after the covid-19 pandemic has been poorly managed and has not delivered, an influential committee of MPs ...

Like almost every doctor, I’ve had to get to grips with artificial intelligence (AI). In some ways this has felt like going through the classic stages of loss and grief. First there’s denial (“It hasn ...

People with a learning disability die prematurely: on average women in this group die 23 years younger than those in the general population, men 19 years younger.1 In 2022, 42% of these deaths were ...

Hardening of anti-immigrant rhetoric in society could drive more foreign doctors away from a “less welcoming” UK, the General Medical Council warns. Its warning comes as new data show an increasing ...

Frances was born in Leeds into a family of four siblings and wanted to become a doctor from a very young age. After excelling in her school exams, she gained a place at the Royal London Hospital ...

Salisbury highlights the risk of reduced consulting time for general practitioner (GP) registrars.1 Improved exam performance cannot be a proxy for patient care. Today’s GPs face escalating workloads, ...

Andrew was born in Hampstead, London, to Wiesa and Abram Jacob Flapan, a physician, both immigrants from Poland during the second world war. He attended school in north London and, after the early ...

Ethiopian health authorities are responding to the country’s first ever outbreak of the Marburg virus. Three deaths have been confirmed and another three are being investigated, officials in Addis ...

David Fraile Navarro and colleagues consider how generative AI can be safely integrated into clinical consultations to ensure patient centred decision making and accountability and introduce the ...

As the use of GLP-1 agonists such as semaglutide and tirzepatide for weight loss becomes increasingly common in adults, and obesity continues to increase in children and adolescents, should these ...

Scotland should decriminalise abortion and remove the requirement that two doctors certify an abortion before 24 weeks’ gestation, an independent review has recommended.1 The Scottish Government ...