A national newborn screening programme for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) will be rolled out throughout England, the ...

Officials have climbed down from an initial attempt to retain the General Medical Council’s controversial right to appeal ...

Cave and Harnden are right that passive pharmacovigilance is no longer adequate for modern medicines regulation.1 The burden ...

MPs and health experts have urged the soon-to-be prime minister Andy Burnham to withdraw from the US-UK drug deal after an ...

European Union officials plan to ban under 13s from signing up to social media platforms across the bloc, and the move could ...

Martin Savage was a distinguished and internationally renowned paediatric endocrinologist who, with his colleagues in Italy, ...

Throughout his career Robert Goodman, professor of brain and behavioural medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, was driven ...

A fifth of women in England who gave birth attended a hospital emergency department in the following year, an analysis has ...

Young people aged 16 and 17 will face a default overnight social media curfew, the UK government has announced. But teenagers ...

Objective To assess the effect of different types of contemporary hormonal contraceptives on the risk of developing ...

Doctors from certain backgrounds are far less likely to be offered specialist training places in the UK than white candidates ...

Ministers must stand up to the food industry to tackle England’s decades long obesity epidemic, an influential committee of ...