The BMA has called on NHS England to tell general practices that physician assistants (PAs), previously known as physician associates, must not see undifferentiated patients, as recommended in the ...

The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has issued its own childhood vaccination schedule, including a recommendation for children to receive the covid-19 vaccine, in a major split with the US ...

Public health experts have warned that inadequate policies on conflicts of interest in government commissioned research into gambling “will only lead to more harm” for members of the public. Last year ...

Recent years have seen the emergence of research integrity sleuths, who devote time to detecting misconduct in academic research publications, a major source of which comes from paper mills, ...

A new multimillion pound programme to test new obesity services and treatments, funded in part by the weight loss drug manufacturer Eli Lilly, could be seen as “marketing by another name,” public ...

More than half a million people in Gaza are now “trapped in famine,” as food and clean water continue to be used as weapons of war as part of Israel’s “genocidal campaign,” aid agencies have said. The ...

The author and barrister John Mortimer once quipped that “no brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.”1 I was reminded of this quote on a visit to my GP for a ...

Medicaid cuts mean worse care for patients, less money for hospitals, and greater harm for everyone, writes Mitchell H Katz Until the US passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, being on a low income ...

Some 1200 patients a year in England are set to benefit from a “breakthrough” life extending treatment for bladder cancer after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved it ...

Health interventions can help remedy many of the hazards around us, whether disease, discomfort, uncertainty, or instability. Drugs for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have proved useful to ...

The New York City Health Department has reported five deaths and 108 confirmed cases of legionnaires’ disease, a type of pneumonia, since the outbreak in Harlem was identified on 25 July. It seems to ...

A right-hand dominant man in his 50s who, six weeks previously, had undergone washout of a volar thumb wound, presented to the plastic surgery clinic with a one week history of erythematous cutaneous ...