The UK population’s health is getting worse. Health inequalities are widening and obesity rates rising, particularly among children in deprived areas (doi:10.1136/bmj.q2819 doi:10.1136/bmj.r525 doi:10 ...

Central to the government's mission to improve health and fix the NHS is a “shift from sickness to prevention.”1 Yet key indicators suggest we are moving in the wrong direction. Healthy life ...

First developed in the 1960s, tranexamic acid, an inhibitor of plasminogen activation and fibrinolysis, found niche applications in treating hereditary bleeding disorders. The indications for drugs ...

A woman in her early 60s presented with a three day history of a widespread, itchy rash. She had no relevant history and was not on any regular medications, but the rash occurred after she had worn ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research It wasn’t long ago that we’d routinely. advise people with heart failure and fluid overload to restrict their fluid intake. Nowadays, restriction advice is ...

Many high risk, high reward medical therapies that use cutting edge science are proving themselves in clinical trials. But are health services ready to pay for them—and how? Marianne Guenot reports On ...

GPs appointed in past six months More than 1500 additional GPs, equating to 851 full time doctors, have been recruited to England’s workforce in the past six months under the Additional Roles ...

The UK government has launched an independent review to examine how hundreds of children in England were given a misdiagnosis by NHS hearing services.1 Camilla Kingdon, a consultant neonatologist at ...

An Israeli attack on Al-Ahli Hospital in northern Gaza forced critically ill patients out onto the street, killing at least one patient who relied on oxygen, and destroyed vital equipment, including ...

NHS outpatient care is “archaic, disjointed, and inefficient” and needs radical reform to bring down waiting lists, the Royal College of Physicians and the Patients Association have said.1 The two ...

I’ve been sitting on my hands over the topic of assisted dying. Not because I’m scared, or irritated, or confused. I’ve purposely not spoken out owing to something much more serious. Because of my ...

Donald Trump’s US government has turned its attention to HIV prevention, eliminating almost all departments and offices that focus on reducing transmission of the virus both abroad and in the United ...