GPs have backed away from a controversial proposal over how to offer transgender patients the most appropriate options for care and treatment while also maintaining their medical records. During a ...

News reports about politicians and government officials ignoring guidelines during the pandemic was a turning point for many people, the UK covid inquiry heard.1 The inquiry’s Every Story Matters team ...

Columbia University has agreed to pay $750m (£569m; €675m) to 576 women who were sexually abused by former gynaecologist Robert Hadden at New York hospitals over more than 20 years. The settlement, ...

Higginson and Ramjeeawon’s commentary rightly raises concerns about the likely outcomes of current debates and challenges of palliative and end-of-life care provision in the UK.1 A key, but rarely ...

This third article in a seven part series presents the Core GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and ...

Acute ischemic stroke is a leading global cause of death and disability. Intravenous thrombolysis was the first acute treatment developed for ischemic strokes. First with alteplase and now with ...

Alice Giucca describes how her experience on a postnatal ward showed a system in collapse As I watch my newborn daughter sleep in one of her three hour stretches of peaceful bliss, I do what I have ...

Former prime minister Tony Blair sparked controversy last month when he claimed that strategies to tackle climate change were causing public disengagement and division and were “doomed to fail.” ...

The Gates Foundation is set to close a decade earlier than anticipated as its founder, Bill Gates, accelerates funding in the hope of speeding up the eradication of poverty and disease. Almost the ...

Reform UK was the largest winning political party in England’s recent council elections and is now set to dominate local government in parts of the country. Adrian O’Dowd looks at how this may affect ...

People who were vaccinated against herpes zoster were 26% less likely to die from heart disease or have a stroke, heart attack, or heart failure compared with people who hadn’t been vaccinated, ...

UK regulators must produce clear guidelines for the prescribing and monitoring of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists for weight loss, particularly when treatment is initiated online, GP ...