Healthcare providers should inform women about risks and benefits Respiratory syncytial virus vaccine is the latest addition ...

Cases of meningococcal disease in England continue to decline but concerns remain about the constant prevalence of ...

Women in prison are often taken to sensitive medical appointments involving intimate examinations, such as obstetrics and ...

The Israeli human rights organisation HaMoked has claimed it has evidence that the prominent Palestinian orthopaedic surgeon Adnan Al-Bursh was beaten and assaulted before his death in Israeli ...

Women’s experiences of maternity care in England have deteriorated in several key aspects over the past five years, raising alarm bells for the NHS, experts have said following publication of the ...

Scotland is lagging behind England in improving its NHS performance in the wake of the covid pandemic. An analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that while hospital activity and ...

A BMJ Commission will redefine the role of academia in healthcare Academic medicine remains under scrutiny. Despite various attempts to tackle its problems, including a global initiative in 2003, The ...

From next year gambling operators in Great Britain will pay a statutory levy that will partly fund NHS services to tackle problem gambling, the government has announced.1 Limits on the amount that can ...

The opportunities to harm health are legion, from bench to bedside to boardroom to bombardment. Doing what’s right for health is easily lost in the throes of academic competition, professional rivalry ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Many people with osteoporosis are unable to tolerate oral bisphosphonates—many others would prefer a six monthly denosumab injection to a once weekly pill that ...