Doctor activists are in the news. Sarah Benn, a former GP from Birmingham, has had her medical licence suspended for five months after being arrested for taking part in peaceful protests by Just Stop ...

A former GP and climate activist who spent 32 days in prison for breaching an injunction banning protests outside an oil terminal against the production and use of fossil fuels has been suspended from ...

The medical community, human rights groups, and agencies including the UN and the Council of Europe have condemned the UK for passing the Rwanda deportation bill, calling it an inhumane piece of ...

David Kang shares what it is like to live with someone with profound autism and the impact this can have on the whole family Our household doesn’t rely on alarm clocks. Instead, it’s the consistent ...

Chloe Milton describes the challenges of being left handed in clinical environments that are designed for righthanded use The surgeon glared at me. When I asked what I’d done wrong they replied that ...

The BMA has expressed disappointment at the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of a judicial review into the government’s handling of NHS pension reforms, saying that doctors were being made to pay for the ...

The World Medical Association (WMA) has called for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza after its council passed a resolution put forward by the BMA. The WMA said that it was gravely concerned by the ...

The number of adverse impacts on health related to extreme weather and climate events is continuing to rise in Europe, an EU report1 has found. The report from the Copernicus Climate Change Service ...

An evaluation of the NHS digital weight management programme shows that people who completed it lost 3.9 kg over 12 weeks. When everyone who started the scheme but did not finish it were included, the ...

Argentina’s healthcare system is under threat from the dengue crisis and its president’s systematic dismantling of science. Martín de Ambrosio reports The worst dengue outbreak in the history of the ...

New definitions of oral health provide an opportunity to change mindsets and promote innovation to tackle high levels of unmet needs, but this will only be realised with a radical change in practice, ...

Urgent action is needed to stem the exodus of doctors from the NHS, which is damaging patient care and costing taxpayers up to £2.4bn a year, the BMA has warned. With an estimated 15 000 to 23 000 ...