With confidence and trust in science and public health already under pressure, we must double down on transparency and public participation in policy decisions, write Liz Salmi and colleagues Since ...

The US Supreme Court unanimously upheld the decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reject an application for approval of flavoured liquids used in vapes, also called e-cigarettes, on 2 ...

Cutting benefits doesn’t necessarily reduce costs or move people closer to the labour market, writes Katie Pybus The debate over rising numbers of people claiming disability benefits in the United ...

Experts have called for a new alcohol strategy for England as deaths from alcohol reached a record high in 2023, with the average heavy drinker now older. An analysis by the Nuffield Trust and the ...

More than 4000 doctors face having to pay a tax charge on their pensions as a result of the nationally agreed pension discrimination remedy, data have shown. Various official delays and problems over ...

The BMJ points out the changed trajectory of life expectancy: after generations of improvement, progress on longevity has stalled.1 The situation is even more alarming if one looks at not just ...

On 16 March the health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, made headlines by declaring in an interview that there was an “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions. The comment was made in the ...

Dengue has long been endemic in Bangladesh, but the past two years have seen a sinister turn, and numbers may be even worse than official figures suggest. Rahat Touhid reports At the beginning of ...

The fallout from the savage cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services continues, as Mun-Keat Looi reports On 27 March the US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, abruptly announced the ...

New testimony gathered by the BMA details instances of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) making incorrect clinical decisions, dangerously prescribing medication, introducing ...

Experts have voiced concerns over the significant presence of industry figures on the UK government’s new Food Strategy Advisory Board, after it emerged that 50% of its membership represented food ...

The General Medical Council is appealing to the High Court against a decision by a medical practitioners tribunal to suspend a consultant for 12 months for a “one-off” rape of a young woman instead of ...