Senior doctors will be balloted on pay offer The BMA has announced indicative ballots of senior doctors in England, asking whether they are willing to take industrial action over their recent 4% pay ...

Doctors should provide high quality, evidence based care reflecting individual preferences and needs, regardless of weight, argue Juan Franco and colleagues Doctors have traditionally recommended ...

Functional improvements seen after golden period of stroke recovery The recovery journey after stroke often plateaus after the initial “golden period” of about 3-6 months, with further substantial ...

More than 40 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in an air attack on a hospital in Sudan, where civil war has raged for two years. The dead included six children and five health workers.

When it comes to protecting patients from ill health, neglect, or bureaucratic misjudgment, it helps to have a fighter on your side. Scotland had Matthew Dunnigan, an innovative consultant physician ...

Women in England who have not turned up or accepted invitations for routine cervical cancer screening will be offered home testing kits from next year in a drive to improve screening rates and reduce ...

Raymond Kay describes living with agoraphobia and how he might be better supported in healthcare settings I first experienced agoraphobia more than 40 years ago, when I had a choking sensation that ...

Vaccine hesitancy may not be as big a factor as poor access, new research finds. Emma Wilkinson looks at what NHS organisations are doing to make it easier for parents to get their children immunised ...

The first meeting of the US vaccine advisory committee since all previous members were fired is attracting controversy before it has even begun. On 24 June, two days before the Centers for Disease ...

US decision makers must lean on evidence to support better maternal outcomes for women—and that means reversing abortion bans, writes Abebe Shibru I read with dismay and devastation a recent report ...

Eleven days of direct military conflict between Israel and Iran has severely damaged hospitals and wounded medical staff on both sides, in a region where healthcare was already under severe strain.

Vinay Prasad—the controversial head of vaccine regulation at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—has been named FDA chief medical and scientific officer.1 Traditionally separate roles, his new ...