The judge who heads the High Court’s family division has warned of the risks of obtaining hormone prescriptions from online gender clinics, after an expert witness told the court that a teenager had ...

Women in the US should begin breast cancer screening with mammography at age 40 and be screened every other year until the age of 74, the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended.1 US doctors ...

These children are at risk of poor physical, emotional, mental, and social outcomes In March 2024, the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reported new data on household food insecurity for ...

Medical academia is experiencing a “deepening crisis” that calls for immediate action, the outgoing acting president of the Academy of Medical Sciences has warned. In a letter to academy fellows, Paul ...

There is no doubt that an unexpected greeting can make the recipient smile and feel recognised and that human interaction also gives the person saying hello a boost. This is becoming increasingly ...

Up to 4000 patients could be offered voxelotor (Oxbryta), a treatment for sickle cell disease which may reduce the need for blood transfusions, after the drug was recommended by the UK National ...

Credit: Richard Smith “Risktaker, obsessive, determined.” That’s how neurologist Jenny Vaughan replied when asked by The BMJ to sum up her personality in three words.1 If there had been a fourth word, ...

The BMA has asked the General Medical Council (GMC) to work with it to review the basis on which former GP and climate activist Sarah Benn found herself in front of a medical tribunal.1 Benn was ...

The state of Florida, the third most populous state in the US, banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy on 1 May, bringing down the 15 week limit set in 2022 which replaced the previous limit of ...

Over the past year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has grappled with the largest outbreak of mpox in the past half century. Despite obstacles, an enhanced response to the crisis can provide a ...

The kidney and liver transplantation programmes of a major hospital in Houston, Texas, have been suspended while authorities investigate claims that the surgeon in charge changed patients’ donor ...

Whistleblowers in the NHS are targeted by a systemic employer “playbook” designed to silence or remove them, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) has warned. The warning came on ...