Medicines shortages in England are no longer isolated incidents but a persistent, systemic threat to patients and healthcare delivery, MPs have warned. A report1 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group ...

Microsoft claims its tool can outperform doctors The technology giant Microsoft is claiming that it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can solve complex diagnostic challenges ...

A BMJ investigation finds more than 90 deals between brands of food or drink that is high in fat, salt, or sugar and sporting entities, amid concerns over such sponsorship’s impact on the UK’s obesity ...

International studies that risked imminent shutdown because of cuts imposed earlier in the Trump administration may have won a reprieve after an apparent change in policy at the US National Institutes ...

The BMA has announced a strike by resident doctors in England for five days later this month, from 7 am on 25 July to 7 am on 30 July. The announcement follows a ballot of resident doctor BMA members ...

Most people do not experience severe withdrawal when discontinuing antidepressants, and clinical guidelines should be updated to reflect this, say the UK authors of the largest review of the evidence ...

The French parliament has passed a controversial bill to reintroduce a neonicotinoid pesticide that is believed to kill bees and cause cancer and other diseases in humans. In the National Assembly, or ...

Yvette Hendricks was born with sickle cell disease in 1961, a time when many patients would not have been expected to live much beyond their teenage years. Hendricks, however, spent a lifetime defying ...

India’s medical regulatory authority has eased faculty recruitment rules to expand the pool of eligible teachers for medical colleges. But the move has drawn criticism from some, who warn that it ...

I’m currently taking a few weeks away from my work as a surgeon, recovering from a hip replacement. My surgery was robot assisted and the results are astonishing. Evidence on robot assisted surgery ...

Poor coordination between services and sporadic training are failing domestic abuse victims, write Simon Opher and Cherryl Henry-Leach An estimated 2.3 million women experienced domestic abuse in ...

The government is to streamline the regulation of patient safety in England after a review concluded that there is “considerable duplication and overlap” between different organisations. The review, ...