Gillian Leng’s review set out recommendations for how physician assistants should be used in the NHS. Matthew Limb examines ...

Resident doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly to extend their mandate for strike action over pay and jobs for another six months. Some 93% of resident doctors who voted in a ballot voted in ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s “cherrypicked” appointees to a federal autism committee have sparked alarm among autism advocates and experts. On 28 January 2026, the US health secretary named 21 new members to ...

Médecins Sans Frontières is to be banned from operating in the Gaza Strip and West Bank after reversing its decision to share details of its Palestinian staff with Israel. The reversal followed a ...

The US government will withhold funding to Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, until it stops using vaccines containing thiomersal (known as thimerosal in the US), a preservative containing mercury, ...

An analysis of 15 commercially available tattoo inks in Australia has found levels of metals and carcinogens, including arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, and toluidine, far above European limits. The ...

Drew asks about the definition of an undifferentiated patient in the context of anaesthesia.1 The working definition of an undifferentiated patient in my independent review of physician and ...

The Law of Mass action predicts that all adverse drug reactions are related to the concentration of the drug at the site of ...

Public health officials in Sheffield have successfully blocked plans for a new McDonald’s drive-through restaurant after ...

Colombia’s bungled reforms show why healthcare systems must be shielded from politics. Luke Taylor reports It started with delays. Patients queued for hours outside pharmacies from dawn and routine ...

US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants. The revelation comes as ...

Clinical negligence in England has failed to be tackled by the government for more than two decades despite multiple warnings, ballooning costs, and “profound devastation and suffering,” the public ...