Reforms to the General Medical Council will not allow physician assistants (PAs) to receive certificates of completion of training (CCTs), the government and regulator have said. Doctors raised the ...
As a society we’ve made progress in removing much of the stigma attached to both physical and mental illness. When I was a student, cancer was still a whispered word, couched in euphemisms (a lump, a ...
Not this time. This is about using plastic bottle waste to make levodopa, one of the main drugs used to treat Parkinson’s disease. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh genetically engineered E ...
GP Catherine Bell tells Erin Dean how writing poetry has connected her to likeminded medics and mums Arriving back at work as a GP from her second maternity leave just a month before the country ...
Knowledge, data, and research gaps continue to hinder care The 2025 update to the UK’s guidance on vaginal pessaries for pelvic organ prolapse makes an important shift towards a practical, patient ...
The US’s largest municipal healthcare network is to terminate a data analytics contract with the technology company Palantir after protests and public pressure to end the deal. New York City Health + ...
West and colleagues provide timely and sobering evidence that weight regain after discontinuation of pharmacological weight loss treatment is not the exception but the rule.1 Their systematic review, ...
Wellness trends are leading people who don’t have diabetes to buy continuous glucose monitors as a healthcare wearable. Hanan Hammad reports For people with diabetes, continuous glucose monitors (CGMs ...
Many terms have been invented to describe different types of hallucinogenic drugs, sometimes based on an analogy with the ...
The reports of two imported cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in France in December 2025,1 along with the 14 ...
The first known human case of avian influenza A (H9N2) in Europe has been reported in Italy. It was identified in a person ...
A US jury has ruled that deliberately addictive features of apps owned by Meta and Google harmed a young user’s mental health ...