Multiple health organisations have joined forces to call on the government to make physical punishment of children illegal in England. Thirteen organisations led by the Royal College of Paediatrics ...

The United Nations aid chief has rebuked Israel’s proposed new plan for militarily controlled aid distribution for Gaza, describing it as a “fig leaf for further violence and displacement” of ...

MPs have criticised the lack of a clear plan for the forthcoming abolition of NHS England and the halving of staff in integrated care boards across the country, demanding that the government set out ...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has said that it cannot support proposed legislation in its current form that would make assisted dying legal in England and Wales. The college issued a briefing on ...

The number of people dying prematurely after long waits in hospital emergency departments before admission rose by a fifth in England last year, an analysis has found. The analysis by the Royal ...

NHS England is making its last call for evidence for a review on postgraduate medical education.1 There have been dozens of similar reviews in my 35 years as a doctor, but this one has a chance to ...

The US health secretary’s campaign slogan echoed that of his boss, Donald Trump. But what does Robert F Kennedy Jr mean by “Make America Healthy Again”—and can he succeed? Simon Williams reports ...

Higginson and Ramjeeawon emphasise the importance of timely, multiprofessional, skilled palliative care to improve outcomes for patients and carers.1 They touch on the need to ensure that the ...

A report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Doctors of the World UK (DOTW) has called for the closure of Wethersfield, a site that houses male asylum seekers, because of its unsuitability and the ...

A woman in her 40s presented with a one month history of swelling and tenderness of the ears (fig 1), along with pain in her palms and fingers, and mild chest tightness. She had no history of chronic ...

At a conference in Hong Kong last year almost every presentation enthused about the potential of artificial intelligence. The conference wasn’t even about AI, the great global hope to solve every ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research There’s certainly a gap in the market for an effective third or fourth line antihypertensive. A trial of lorundrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, found a ...