One in seven patients end up in a “referral black hole” as their GP referral for tests or treatment is either delayed, lost, rejected, or not sent, a report from Healthwatch England warns.1 While this ...

A GP has lodged an official complaint against the UK health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, over his language when describing the BMA during the ongoing dispute between the government and ...

A panel of experts handpicked by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has voted to change the recommendation for immunising all newborns against hepatitis B within 24 hours of birth. That ...

As with much of the public health community, I was angered and saddened to see Donald Trump make such reckless and potentially damaging comments on the global stage about paracetamol use during ...

A doctor has been charged with sexually assaulting 38 patients in his care while working at two NHS hospitals from 2017 to 2021. Nathaniel John Spencer, 38, from Quinton in Birmingham, faces 45 ...

When I graduated in 1995, hospital medicine in the UK was organised around a “firm”—a team of consultants, registrars, senior house officers, and house officers who knew their patients, and each other ...

In the two years since Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina he has slashed spending on health, education, and science. Martín De Ambrosio reports The year 2024 saw Argentina’s worst dengue ...

Medical science has been remarkably successful over the past two centuries at preventing and curing what were once common ...

The number of published studies using the Delphi method has increased considerably in recent years. The Delphi method is now ...

Perineal injuries have been neglected and deprioritised, at the expense of women’s health and wellbeing, write Kathrine ...

A drug rollout that officials hailed as a demonstration that the UK was still a “science superpower,” has reached only a ...

As AI enters clinical consultations, Marcus Lewis and colleagues argue that healthcare professionals need new competencies and educational support for safe human-AI collaboration Artificial ...