Hundreds of BMA staff have voted to strike over pay erosion, with the first walkout planned for the end of March. GMB, the union representing the staff, has accused the BMA of hypocrisy for providing ...

Five further cases of meningitis have been identified in the outbreak in Kent that has left two young people dead. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said that the number of identified cases of ...

Terminally ill adults in Scotland will not be given the right to end their lives, after politicians stepped back from legalising assisted dying. Just under a year ago, a vote to approve the idea in ...

Hospices in England are facing a growing financial crisis and will be forced to cut vital palliative and end-of-life care services further if the government fails to act immediately, MPs have warned.1 ...

Yamey and Shaffer rightly warn that, when senior physicians appear beside President Trump and secretary of health and human services Robert F Kennedy Jr, they can launder misinformation with clinical ...

More than 400 people have been killed in an airstrike on a hospital in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, which left “hundreds of people looking for their relatives,” the United Nations has reported.1 The ...

A fundamental shift in clinical trial design to include pregnant and breastfeeding women is needed to make up for the “significant evidence gap” surrounding medication use in these groups, experts say ...

Elspeth Davies describes how living with an elevated risk of cancer damaged her relationship with her body, and how she sought to repair it At the age 17 I received a diagnosis of melanoma in situ, ...

Ian was born in Glasgow and attended Shawlands Academy during the second world war. He was dux of the school and won a bursary to study medicine at Glasgow, graduating with a commendation. He returned ...

A new national taskforce has been set up by the government to help improve the quality of NHS maternity and neonatal care in England. The Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce—made up of families, ...

A US federal judge has blocked the US health secretary’s controversial efforts to reform national vaccine policy for children after finding that the challengers were likely to succeed in showing key ...

Joyce Alexander (née Garven) was born in 1935 to Scottish medical missionary parents in Manchuria, northern China, which at the time was under Japanese occupation. After the outbreak of the second ...