England is facing one of the toughest ever winters in its history as an early wave of flu sweeps the nation, health officials ...

Global efforts to tackle tuberculosis (TB) are starting to bear fruit, with the number of cases decreasing for the first time ...

My mother recently died peacefully at the age of 90. On her final morning she was briefly awake, surrounded by loving family, and then she gently slipped away. I was reminded of Kathryn Mannix’s ...

Increasing the consumption of harmful products is the opposite of healthy or productive growth, say Nason Maani and colleagues Preventable ill health is at the heart of the challenges facing this ...

When Hilary Capell became a consultant rheumatologist in 1978, at the age of just 29, there were very few options for ...

Almost one in five patients attending major emergency departments in England were treated on trolleys or chairs in corridors this summer, a new report has found. The report1 by the Royal College of ...

A consultant pathologist has been suspended from the UK medical register for 12 months after spilling beer on a junior female colleague’s cleavage at a work party and licking it off her breasts. Mark ...

Systemic failings impacted hundreds of deaf children and their families as a result of missed diagnoses, inconsistent service quality, and a lack of national oversight, a damning report concludes.1 ...

Martin Whyte, a paediatric trainee who was suspended from the BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee in April 20231 over tweets that referred to “Jew banker goblins” and included “gas the jews,” has been ...

A health minister has launched a scathing attack on the BMA’s leaders, accusing them of appearing “determined to turn their organisation into a farce” in an escalating dispute with the government. In ...

Canada, and by extension all the Americas, has been stripped of its measles-free certification by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). This means there is no region in the world certified as ...

A senior histopathologist died of an overdose after being given the wrong medicine by staff at the NHS trust where he worked. Ray McMahon, a professor of gastrointestinal pathology at the University ...