The purpose of screening is to find disease at an earlier stage than it would otherwise be found, in ways that provide benefit to a patient. It is worth scrutinising the recent enthusiasm about the ...

Dara Kass and colleagues consider why, despite predictions to the contrary, abortion was not a major driver of votes during the presidential election and what it means for future advocacy On 5 ...

With the new NHS 10 year plan coming this summer, coinciding with phase 2 of the spending review, questions are being asked about what direction or priorities the NHS will pursue.12 Health secretary ...

We have a collective responsibility to enable all children, in every setting, to have opportunities to play, write Johanna Thomson and Sophie Janet Imagine an intervention that could dramatically ...

More than 200 000 additional blood donors are needed annually in England to cover a shortfall in blood donation and avoid a “red alert” threat to public safety, the NHS has said. Blood stocks have ...

James (known to most as Jim) obtained his diploma in tropical medicine on completion of his surgical exams to fulfil a calling to work in Africa. He arrived in Kenya in 1968, one of the last to go by ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to conduct reviews into the abortion drug mifepristone, infant formula, and talc, while health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr expressed support for broader ...

Six well known senior clinicians have urged resident doctors to reject a call from the BMA for strike action over pay, arguing that such action would be futile and damaging. A letter signed by Clare ...

NHS England faces a referral to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office over its decision to grant researchers training an AI model “similar to ChatGPT” on GP patient data provided to the NHS purely ...

On 1 June it became illegal in the UK to sell or supply single use vapes. The ban was marked by press reports warning that denying people access to disposable vapes would lead to 200 000 taking up ...

The GP and chief medical officer of a small Norwegian town has been sentenced to 21 years in prison after being convicted of 82 counts of abusing his position as a doctor and 70 counts of rape. All ...

People born and living their early years in the most deprived areas of England have worse health and outcomes throughout their life in terms of obesity, tooth decay, attendances at hospital emergency ...