Eleven days of direct military conflict between Israel and Iran has severely damaged hospitals and wounded medical staff on both sides, in a region where healthcare was already under severe strain.

Vinay Prasad—the controversial head of vaccine regulation at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—has been named FDA chief medical and scientific officer.1 Traditionally separate roles, his new ...

US decision makers must lean on evidence to support better maternal outcomes for women—and that means reversing abortion bans, writes Abebe Shibru I read with dismay and devastation a recent report ...

NHS staff working in overstretched mental health and paediatric services are reporting high levels of stress, burnout, and emotional strain as they struggle to protect care standards. The Royal ...

Spain’s ministry of health has asked Novo Nordisk for clarification about a controversial obesity awareness campaign which may have broken the country’s law on promoting prescription drugs. The ...

BMA representatives have voted to support GPs who refuse to prescribe medicines for hospital patients unless the GP has been properly informed and the treatment has been started and stabilised in ...

The word “frailty” once had the same meaning for doctors as it still does for the public. It summoned up an image of an emaciated older person, probably bent over, hobbling along with the aid of ...

Representatives at the BMA’s annual meeting have called for additional funding to meet the costs of delivering assisted dying services, emphasising that the money should not be drawn from existing ...

It can be hard to keep up with NHS reorganisations. Integrated care boards (ICBs) were created in July 2022, taking over the responsibility for commissioning healthcare from clinical commissioning ...

The secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Streeting, has ordered a rapid national investigation into NHS maternity services in England to tackle “systemic problems dating back over 15 ...

The security of a career in medicine has declined over generations while the financial burden has grown, writes Luke Craddock Being a doctor in the UK is no longer a stable and well remunerated career ...

Long standing litigation against Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, over the addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin (oxycodone) seems to be resolved with a $7.4bn (£5.84bn; €6.38bn) ...