The rising number of private antibiotic prescriptions is making it increasingly difficult for the UK to tackle the threat of antimicrobial resistance, a top medical adviser has warned. Speaking at the ...
This author describes what it is like to live with chronic hemiplegic migraine, and her search for support It took decades for me to receive a diagnosis of chronic migraine, hemiplegic phenotype, with ...
Ministers must expand HIV testing to settings such as general practices, abortion clinics, women’s health hubs, cervical screening centres, and sexual health clinics, MPs have said. The House of ...
The first men’s health strategy for England will focus on suicide prevention, alcohol misuse, and gambling problems to help tackle “inequalities and hardships” that men face, the UK government has ...
The ultraprocessed food (UPF) industry is “mirroring the political playbook used by tobacco, alcohol, and fossil fuel companies” to try to influence government policies, experts have warned.1 ...
Wes Streeting’s meddling in the case of Rahmeh Aladwan obstructs justice and is an ineffective way to challenge racism, writes Aneez Esmail Rahmeh Aladwan is a British Palestinian doctor, currently ...
More than 400 military personnel who suffered side effects from the antimalarial drug mefloquine (Lariam) have finally reached a settlement with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) after a nine year ...
The £3.4bn NHS England (NHSE) spent on trying to bring down waiting lists for elective care after the covid-19 pandemic has been poorly managed and has not delivered, an influential committee of MPs ...
Like almost every doctor, I’ve had to get to grips with artificial intelligence (AI). In some ways this has felt like going through the classic stages of loss and grief. First there’s denial (“It hasn ...
People with a learning disability die prematurely: on average women in this group die 23 years younger than those in the general population, men 19 years younger.1 In 2022, 42% of these deaths were ...
Frances was born in Leeds into a family of four siblings and wanted to become a doctor from a very young age. After excelling in her school exams, she gained a place at the Royal London Hospital ...
Hardening of anti-immigrant rhetoric in society could drive more foreign doctors away from a “less welcoming” UK, the General Medical Council warns. Its warning comes as new data show an increasing ...