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Patient leaders condemn plans to replace NHS safety bodies with app feedback

July 1, 2025

US children’s vaccinations to be reviewed, as RFK Jr defunds Gavi

July 1, 2025

Stroke: Ombudsman urges doctors to be vigilant after rise in investigations

July 1, 2025

Child vaccination undermined by fragmented and hard to navigate system, say experts

July 1, 2025

India’s organ donation programme falling short amid funding and staffing crises, says government report

June 30, 2025

Obesity plan puts onus on supermarkets to promote healthy food

June 30, 2025

Covid-19: “All hypotheses remain on table,” says WHO report into virus origins

June 30, 2025

Quarter of young adults in England have a mental health condition, data suggest

June 30, 2025

Diversity in senior NHS roles increases but service “must do better” say leaders

June 30, 2025

Influencer breached UK advertising rules by promoting supplement to people with ADHD, watchdog rules

June 27, 2025

Prioritise UK medical graduates for NHS training places, doctors urge

June 27, 2025

GLP-1 receptor agonists: MHRA to study possible side effects after acute pancreatitis cases

June 27, 2025

Sepsis: Diagnosis remains “urgent and persistent safety risk,” safety body warns

June 26, 2025

Formula milk: Overpriced and misleading products are risking child health, say campaigners

June 26, 2025

News in brief from the BMA annual representatives meeting

June 26, 2025

Medical news in brief: Senior doctors’ pay ballot, clinical trial boost, device regulation overhaul, and other stories

June 26, 2025

Sudan: “Appalling” hospital attack kills more than 40 people, WHO confirms

June 25, 2025

Cervical screening home test kits will be rolled out in England from next year

June 25, 2025

Wellcome photography competition focuses on new perspectives on world health

June 25, 2025

Trump watch: Senator questions authority of new vaccine panel and asbestos ban is under threat

June 25, 2025

Appointment of FDA critic Vinay Prasad to senior role in agency is followed by departures

June 24, 2025

Hospitals are targeted and destroyed as Israel-Iran war hits healthcare

June 24, 2025

Spanish officials investigate Novo Nordisk’s obesity awareness campaign

June 24, 2025

Doctors back GPs who refuse to follow “ludicrous and unsafe” hospital prescribing practices

June 24, 2025

Assisted dying: Doctors call for extra funding to deliver services

June 24, 2025

Psychiatrists and paediatricians warn care is at risk as services are overstretched and staff burnt out

June 24, 2025

Sexual harassment: Doctors demand tougher action in NHS workplaces

June 24, 2025

Investigation into NHS maternity services announced by health secretary

June 24, 2025

US reaches a final $7.4bn settlement on opioid oxycontin

June 24, 2025

E-cigarettes risk “renormalising” smoking, says major new WHO report

June 24, 2025

New US Veterans Administration rules remove language barring discrimination

June 23, 2025

BMA chair calls for GMC to be replaced by new independent regulator

June 23, 2025

Gaza: UN urges Israel to stop “senseless” killings at aid sites as death toll exceeds 400

June 23, 2025

Doctors must stop using unregistered AI scribe tools, says NHS England

June 23, 2025

Overseas doctors are choosing US and Australia over UK for better pay and quality of life

June 23, 2025

North Korean covid cover-up caused suffering and deaths, report documents

June 23, 2025

NIH ordered to restore 800 research grants cancelled by Trump

June 23, 2025

MPs back legalising assisted dying in England and Wales

June 20, 2025

PAs: BMA raises concerns over unsafe working practices at Plymouth hospital

June 20, 2025

Addictive symptoms more important than time spent on phone in predicting suicidal thoughts in young people, study finds

June 20, 2025

Supreme Court allows US states to ban transgender care for minors

June 20, 2025

China expands epidural access to boost birth rate

June 20, 2025

“Hard to justify” $28 000 price tag for breakthrough HIV prevention treatment, says UN agency

June 20, 2025

NHS staff launch legal challenge against trust’s policy on displaying political symbols

June 20, 2025

GP Sarah Benn is suspended again as she calls for GMC to rethink how it deals with climate activists

June 19, 2025

UK pauses chikungunya vaccine (IXCHIQ) in over 65s to conduct safety review

June 19, 2025

Sickle cell: Patients face “systemic inequities” in care and research investment

June 19, 2025

Climate emergency: 90% of NHS buildings are vulnerable to overheating, warns UK health alliance

June 19, 2025

Physicians demand urgent action to tackle air pollution linked to 30 000 UK deaths a year

June 19, 2025

Benefits of Alzheimer’s drugs remain too small to justify costs, says NICE

June 19, 2025

Doctor gets life sentence for torturing prisoners in Syria’s civil war

June 19, 2025

Too many children are missed even in health settings, says review of child sexual exploitation

June 19, 2025

MPs vote to end prosecution of women who terminate pregnancy at any stage

June 18, 2025

Brain dead US woman gives birth to premature baby and will be taken off life support

June 18, 2025

Trump watch: A second CDC expert resigns over loss of confidence in vaccine policy

June 17, 2025

NHS staff raise concerns about filming in hospitals and streaming on TikTok

June 17, 2025

Conditions are placed on training in obstetrics and gynaecology at Manchester hospital to tackle long term concerns

June 17, 2025

Major environmental polluters could face jail in Dominican Republic under proposed new law

June 17, 2025

Trump’s “big beautiful bill” could lead to 16 000 extra deaths a year, say researchers

June 17, 2025

Hundreds dead as Air India plane crashes into medical school accommodation

June 16, 2025

Sixty seconds on . . . rectal examinations

June 16, 2025

Intravenous rehydration safe for children with severe acute malnutrition, study reports

June 13, 2025

NHS must play its part in improving resident doctors’ working lives, says health secretary

June 13, 2025

Independent US vaccine body is planned after RFK Jr’s mass firing of CDC advisory panel

June 13, 2025

Sickle cell disease: Government commits funding to widen access to specialist blood machines

June 13, 2025

RFK Jr names eight new members of vaccine committee after mass firing

June 13, 2025

Rehabilitation after discharge from ICU is often poorly coordinated, NCEPOD finds

June 13, 2025

MPs call for greater use of diagnostics to tackle antimicrobial resistance

June 13, 2025

NHS waiting list falls in England, but leaders warn of “long way to go”

June 13, 2025

Doctor who formed relationship with teenage patient he met in hospital is suspended for 12 months

June 12, 2025

Global aid cuts are straining mental health services for refugees, says UN

June 12, 2025

ADHD: Is prevalence increasing?

June 12, 2025

Resident doctors in Scotland fear for their future

June 12, 2025

Consultant found guilty of gross negligence in Martha Mills case will not face sanctions

June 12, 2025

Medical news in brief: Liquid biopsies, new SARS-CoV-2 variant, Creon shortage, and other stories

June 12, 2025

NHS leaders say extra £29bn a year is not enough to cut waiting times and modernise services

June 11, 2025

NICE draft guidance recommends wider range of GP treatments for heart failure

June 11, 2025

Measles cases rise in Canada and Mexico, as Texas outbreak fades

June 11, 2025

Canadian wildfires spark health warnings

June 11, 2025

RFK Jr dismisses entire CDC vaccine advisory panel

June 10, 2025

Plastic surgeon who tried to kill colleague sentenced to life in prison

June 10, 2025

NHS calls for more blood donors amid risk of shortages

June 10, 2025

Trump watch: RFK Jr orders a raft of FDA reviews while backing access to experimental stem cell therapies

June 10, 2025

Senior clinicians urge resident doctors to avoid more strike action

June 9, 2025

Will banning disposable vapes result in 200 000 more smokers?

June 9, 2025

NHS England faces investigation over granting Foresight access to GP patient data

June 9, 2025

Norwegian GP sentenced to 21 years for rape and abuse of 82 female patients

June 9, 2025

Childhood deprivation has life long impact on health

June 9, 2025

Emergency care plan for England lacks ambition, say doctors’ leaders

June 6, 2025

College calls for GP partnership model to be protected as numbers dwindle

June 6, 2025

Trump revokes the right to emergency abortion—but confusion remains around enforcement

June 6, 2025

Sixty seconds on . . . free school meals

June 5, 2025

Weight loss drugs could make oral contraception less effective, MHRA warns

June 5, 2025

Covid-19: New variant spreading across Asia is found in UK

June 5, 2025

More than half of resident doctors are dissatisfied with their training, RCP warns

June 5, 2025

Can a focus on reducing the UK’s prison population benefit public health?

June 4, 2025

White House scrambles to correct error strewn MAHA report

June 4, 2025

Alzheimer’s disease: Rise in new drugs being trialled sparks hope among experts

June 3, 2025

One million excess deaths linked to deprivation over a decade, Marmot tells conference

June 3, 2025

Patients with asthma or heart disease should avoid incense sticks and other airborne pollutants, says CMO

June 3, 2025
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