The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has intervened after a general practice in the West Midlands was accused of misleading patients about physician associates’ capabilities and levels of ...

Labour must act on its commitment to reduce child poverty Poverty is a disaster for children’s health.1 It causes poor child health outcomes and worsening physical and mental health. It undermines ...

Efforts to reduce NHS waiting times for elective care will stall unless the government makes major investment in infrastructure and new technology to boost capacity, a leading surgeon has warned. Tim ...

The sickle cell treatment voxelotor (Oxbryta) has been withdrawn from all markets by the manufacturer Pfizer after a “higher than anticipated” number of deaths were reported and clinical evidence ...

Structural racism is harming the health and wellbeing of ethnic minority communities in London and contributing to “avoidable and unfair inequalities” between ethnic groups, researchers have concluded ...

A survey of former players of American-style football has found that a third believe that they have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), brain damage associated with concussion after repeated head ...

Funding for general practice has been falling since 2018,1 and the only new money available has been through the primary care networks—groups of practices covering 30 000-50 000 patients. Money has ...

The BMA has retracted its call for the UK government to lift the ban on prescribing puberty blockers to under 18s with gender dysphoria while the association conducts an evaluation of the Cass ...

A new drug for Alzheimer’s disease is causing excitement despite excess deaths, missing safety data, questionable efficacy, and financial conflicts of interest among the “independent” advisory ...

Sexual safety campaigners have written to the health secretary Wes Streeting to call for action over what they deem a failure of medical schools to acknowledge the problem of sexual assault and abuse ...

More than 200 women faced criminal charges after pregnancy loss, abortion, or birth in the year after the US Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion, analysis has found.12 The ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved xanomeline and trospium chloride capsules (Cobenfy) for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults. The drug is the first antipsychotic treatment ...