Resident doctors will take to the picket lines this Friday, after talks between the BMA and the government failed to resolve the ongoing pay dispute. The BMA confirmed that a five day strike would go ...

The US secretary for health and human services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, announced that the US had rejected recent amendments to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Health Regulations, ...

Guy Bell/Alamy Healthcare workers join protesters to form a red line in Parliament Square to demand the UK government take action to stop the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system. Israeli military ...

Partha Kar, a Royal College of Physicians (RCP) councillor, says that he will appeal the college’s “disproportionate” decision to suspend his registration over what he claims was “whistleblowing.” It ...

The biotechnology company Sarepta Therapeutics has decided to suspend entirely one of its treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) just days after it refused a request from the US Food and ...

Steven Comyns describes living with an intolerance to many medications and how he would like health professionals to help him find a solution I am 61 years old and have lived with an intolerance to ...

I’ve always loved trees, and as a teenager I taught myself to identify most of the common species. As I’ve got older my respect for them has grown, and I find it consoling that many of them were ...

Generative artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly embedded in how today’s medical students learn and practise medicine. But should it be formally taught within the medical curriculum? Rhea ...

Moberly heard advice from professionals on what to do if undermined at work; all those who were consulted advised doctors to seek guidance from a manager, colleague, or employer.1 As resident doctors ...

Cuts to international aid programmes could trigger a rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and cause global annual gross domestic product (GDP) losses of $1.7tn (£1.3tn; €1.5tn) within 25 years, ...

More than half (54%, 458) of black women surveyed had problems with healthcare professionals during their pregnancy, while 28% (237) reported being discriminated against.1 The Black Maternal ...

There’s clear evidence that many doctors aren’t valued in the NHS, and their potential as leaders is inadvertently curtailed. The resident doctors’ strike, the postgraduate medical training review, ...