A child at Liverpool’s Alder Hey hospital has died of measles.1 The tragic death comes less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the ...

The US Congress has clawed back about $8bn (£5.9bn; €6.8bn) in funding to continue to support PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The agency was originally due to lose funding in ...

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, ...

On behalf of the Working in Partnership with Patients and Communities Forum of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, we welcome Vanneste and colleagues’ important study on reporting patient and ...

The US health department has made personal data on 79 million people, including addresses, race, and ethnicity, available to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency that is rounding up ...

The government has set out plans to formally regulate senior NHS managers, including banning those who commit serious misconduct from taking up other senior roles in the health service. The Department ...

The death of a child in Liverpool after contracting measles is a “tragedy” that shows society is failing to protect children, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) ...

The Care Quality Commission has identified fraudulent activity involving doctors’ identities, soaring numbers of prescriptions for cannabis based products, and prevention of future death reports ...

Wraparound care for patients taking GLP-1 agonists must include assessment of nutritional status to identify the risk of malnutrition, writes Ellen Fallows Food insecurity is increasing, particularly ...

A doctor and her husband who made nearly £8000 selling personal protective equipment (PPE) stolen from NHS Scotland in the early stages of the covid pandemic have both been jailed for 10 months. At ...

After some delay, Gillian Leng’s report on physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) in the NHS was published on 16 July.1 Her remit was to look at the safety and effectiveness of ...

Those born between the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2010s seem to be drinking less alcohol than older generations. Why is this—and could it be a public health opportunity? Elisabeth Mahase reports The ...