A consultant surgeon who sexually harassed junior female colleagues has been suspended from the medical register for 12 months after a High Court judge ruled that his original eight months suspension ...

Artificial intelligence is infiltrating medicine at many levels, from providing patients with medical advice and summarising patients’ notes to aiding diagnoses. Elisabeth Mahase looks at how the ...

On 13 February 2025, a few hours after the US Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr as Secretary of Health and Human Services, President Trump issued an executive order establishing a “Make America ...

Mun-Keat Looi rounds up the latest from another tumultuous week in the US The District of Columbia and 23 US states have launched legal action against President Donald Trump’s administration after the ...

Concerted global efforts to improve maternal healthcare mean that women are far less likely to die in childbirth than they were two decades ago, a new UN report says. But agencies have warned that the ...

A UK government advisory committee has said that food and drink sweetened with non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) can help people lose a small amount of weight, contrasting with a previous conclusion from the ...

Despite blazing a trail as one of the few female medical students of her day, Rosamond Gruer did not expect to work as a doctor after she married. As a mother of four her duties were as a housewife ...

Dengue has long been endemic in Bangladesh, but the past two years have seen a sinister turn, and numbers may be even worse than official figures suggest. Rahat Touhid reports At the beginning of ...

Caring for migrants in immigration removal centres can present GPs with complex practical and ethical difficulties, Sally Howard reports Several cases haunt Alan Mitchell from his 14 years as a ...

Supporting the healthy development of children requires an approach to smartphone and social media use underpinned by age appropriate design and education, argue Victoria Goodyear and colleagues ...

There are ways to make workplaces feel more inclusive for neurodivergent colleagues, Abi Rimmer hears Catriona McVey, final year medical student, says, “Neurodivergent colleagues often bring unique ...

Experts have called for a new alcohol strategy for England as deaths from alcohol reached a record high in 2023, with the average heavy drinker now older. An analysis by the Nuffield Trust and the ...