The Annals of Internal Medicine has refused US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s demand to retract a study that found that vaccines containing the adjuvant aluminium hydroxide did not increase ...

Jeraj’s summary of the government’s options for regulation of NHS managers is helpful.1 But given the recent history of management failures by both general and medical managers, a consensus is ...

Consultant psychiatrist Suhana Ahmed talks to Erin Dean about her experience with postnatal depression and how she encourages other doctors to seek support When consultant psychiatrist Suhana Ahmed ...

Innovation may fall short of delivering improvement The UK government’s 10 year health plan for England1 was published against concerns of ailing productivity within the NHS2 and the wider UK economy.

Efforts to prevent and ultimately end FGM need more funding and the support of health professionals, writes Nimco Ali Many health professionals know about the dire medical and psychological ...

What you need to know The World Health Organization (WHO) defines infertility as the lack of a pregnancy after at least 12 months of regular unprotected intercourse.1 This includes primary female ...

Both the Annals study and the BMJ report point toward accessibility, perceived as much as objective, as an important dimension for prevention strategies. We believe continued integration of this ...

The 2019 NHS long term plan included a commitment to integrate smoking cessation support into hospital care.1 Starting in 2019, services began to be rolled out for pregnant women, as well as ...

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 ...

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

The UK’s medicines regulator has approved the first immunotherapy to be licensed to delay the progression of type 1 diabetes in patients who are in the early stages of the disease. The Medicines and ...