The summaries of product characteristics (SmPCs; previously called data sheets) of certain drugs sometimes specify that they should be used “at the discretion of the physician,” often when advising ...

Central to the government's mission to improve health and fix the NHS is a “shift from sickness to prevention.”1 Yet key indicators suggest we are moving in the wrong direction. Healthy life ...

With another NHS reorganisation looming, any changes must strengthen the role of public health in the NHS, write Chad Byworth and colleagues The government’s decision to abolish NHS England while ...

NHS outpatient care is “archaic, disjointed, and inefficient” and needs radical reform to bring down waiting lists, the Royal College of Physicians and the Patients Association have said.1 The two ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research It wasn’t long ago that we’d routinely. advise people with heart failure and fluid overload to restrict their fluid intake. Nowadays, restriction advice is ...

First developed in the 1960s, tranexamic acid, an inhibitor of plasminogen activation and fibrinolysis, found niche applications in treating hereditary bleeding disorders. The indications for drugs ...

Vicky Evans played a leading role in developing the discipline of forensic medicine as an academic specialty, establishing a training programme as well as professional standards and competencies: ...

GPs appointed in past six months More than 1500 additional GPs, equating to 851 full time doctors, have been recruited to England’s workforce in the past six months under the Additional Roles ...

The family of a doctor who took his own life within hours of receiving an email from the General Medical Council (GMC) has failed in their bid to sue the GMC for damages over his death.1 Sridharan ...

The UK population’s health is getting worse. Health inequalities are widening and obesity rates rising, particularly among children in deprived areas (doi:10.1136/bmj.q2819 doi:10.1136/bmj.r525 doi:10 ...

This author describes what it is like to experience a loved one going through a psychotic episode and what support health professionals could have given her and her family. I was 10 when my sister ...

Shanghai’s municipal health authorities have issued a “negative list” of nine types of online behaviour that doctors should avoid, from unlawful advertising to criticising government policy, in what ...