New rules requiring GPs in England to seek remote specialist advice for every referral they make into selected specialties are putting patients at risk, general practice leaders warn. Concerns relate ...

A second regulator has joined efforts to overturn a decision that cleared a British-Palestinian plastic surgeon of supporting terrorism and the proscribed organisation Hamas.1 The Professional ...

Doctors need to show humility in consultations when patients present them with information they have found online, an expert panel has said. Convening at the Nuffield Trust Summit on 6 March, the ...

Diagnoses of autism and other neurodivergence are rising. Jessica Eccles and Elizabeth Weir say that the trend is real—and that claims of “overdiagnosis” and insistence on exact case numbers are ...

Tool offers increased precision in estimating exacerbation risk Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It is frequently seen in primary ...

Misunderstanding of Tourette syndrome is not confined to the media; it can shape recognition, delay diagnosis, and limit care, write Melina Aikaterini Malli , Daniel Whittaker , and Danni Phoenix-Kane ...

One of the recurring frustrations of older people is our inability—individually and collectively—to learn the lessons of the past, as if every problem we face is being encountered for the first time.

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir. A coalition of human rights, health and patient ...

Pharmaceutical projects to tackle the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) have declined by over a third (35%) in the past five years, despite rising deaths caused by resistant infections. The ...

Research suggests the drugs have potential for prevention and harm reduction in substance use disorders, writes Ziyad Al-Aly People taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists often ...

Dozens of healthcare facilities in Iran and Lebanon have been attacked or forced to close because of the US and Israel’s bombing campaign, the World Health Organization says. On 28 February the US and ...

Not quite. The UK government wants to enhance manufacturing of pharmaceuticals while in orbit around the Earth. Its new initiative aims to set out a clearer route to bringing drugs manufactured in ...