Campaigners have urged the UK government to take action over high prices and “misleading marketing” of infant formula products that they warn are exploiting parents and risking children’s health. The ...

What you need to know Nutrition during pregnancy and in early childhood can have a noticeable short term and long term impact on health of the mother/parent and the child, including complications ...

This man in his 50s presented with a five year history of bilateral hip pain, worse on the right, which had notably deteriorated over the past month, though he remained ambulatory with the assistance ...

US President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), passed by the US Congress, is certainly big. Its beauty is more questionable. The act forms one part of Trump’s signature economic ...

Treatment requires a personalised approach When women reach the menopause, they can face difficulties in accessing good advice about management of their symptoms. The challenge for their healthcare ...

Representatives voted in favour of lobbying against Palantir’s involvement in the NHS’s data management system and supporting doctors who refuse to use the system. Fareed Al Qusous, a resident doctor ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research A diagnostic accuracy study of a blood test for colorectal cancer has some promising, if paradoxical, findings. The cell free DNA test had an overall sensitivity ...

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 ...

Martin and colleagues’ article on how general practice is sacrificing patient care for prevention saddened me.1 I recently reread Julian Tudor Hart’s book A New Kind of Doctor , in which he dismantles ...

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.