What you need to know Inhalational and intravenous medications can be used to induce and maintain general anaesthesia. In recent years, the use of total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) has increased.1 ...

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has urged the UK government to launch a rapid, independent review of the role of physician associates and anaesthesia associates because of “mounting concern” ...

A doctor who left the medical records of about 300 patients unsecured in a rented apartment when she moved out has been struck off the UK medical register. Documents found in the former home of Maryam ...

The sickle cell treatment voxelotor (Oxbryta) has been withdrawn from all markets by the manufacturer Pfizer after a “higher than anticipated” number of deaths were reported and clinical evidence ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...