The BMA has entered another pay dispute, this time over consultants’ pay in Northern Ireland. The union, which is already in ...

The union representing UK physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) has said that hostility faced by some PAs from ...

What is lifestyle medicine? It’s a massive hit on social media, where it seems to have captured the zeitgeist of a generation ...

Last month’s 10 year plan for the NHS in England proposed initiatives aimed at patients as consumers of services, using information in directories or league tables to exercise choice about their care.

The BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee has agreed not to take further strike action this month to allow time for talks with the ...

Credit: South East Coast Ambulance Service Douglas Chamberlain, the “grandfather of paramedicine,” founded the first ...

Vinay Prasad was reinstated as the head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the US Food and Drug ...

Staff working in hospital emergency departments have reported being punched, spat at, and threatened with guns and acid amid a rise in violence across England.1 Freedom of information (FOI) requests ...

When Charles Easmon decided to pursue a career in medical microbiology in the 1970s, many of his contemporaries were baffled.

A man fired 180 shots at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta on 8 August, while ...

The World Health Organization needs to develop tech specific governance and accountability frameworks, argue Ilona Kickbusch ...

The development of new medical treatments is being undermined by excluding older people from clinical research, UK charities ...