The NHS 10 year plan promises to transform child health, but Britain’s most senior paediatrician warns there needs to be a focus on delivery. Gareth Iacobucci reports “Poorly children become poorly ...

Looi discusses artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool for clinical training.1 I recently attended a seminar at Imperial College on AI’s role in teaching, with educators from diverse fields including ...

Majid draws attention to the enduring disparities in academic and professional outcomes among UK doctors, particularly between international medical graduates and their white, UK trained peers.1 ...

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has banned the mercury based preservative thiomersal (known in the US as thimerosal) from all influenza vaccines distributed in the US. Justifying the ...

A child at Liverpool’s Alder Hey hospital has died of measles.1 The tragic death comes less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the ...

Resident doctors joined picket lines across England this morning (25 July) to mark the start of their five day strike over pay, after talks with the government failed earlier this week. Although most ...

Steven Comyns describes living with an intolerance to many medications and how he would like health professionals to help him find a solution I am 61 years old and have lived with an intolerance to ...

Stokel-Walker summarises the artificial intelligence (AI) tools being used to record doctor-patient conversations.1 I encourage clinicians who are using ambient scribing to familiarise themselves with ...

Studies suggest that some commercially available health tests are inaccurate and unsuitable for public use. Rebecca Coombes , Hristio Boytchev , and Gareth Iacobucci ask if regulation is adequately ...

Attacks on healthcare and violations of medical neutrality—the fundamental principle that medical care must operate free of political or military interference—have become alarmingly unexceptional in ...

An NHS consultant vascular surgeon has appeared in court charged with fraud for allegedly trying to claim more than £460 000 from insurers for two below-the-knee amputations that were self-inflicted.

Resident doctors will take to the picket lines this Friday, after talks between the BMA and the government failed to resolve the ongoing pay dispute. The BMA confirmed that a five day strike would go ...