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 ...

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 ...

This moment demands more innovative communication strategies to build trust, address fears shaped by politicized rhetoric, and reinforce the strong evidence supporting routine childhood immunization.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 BMA and members we represent have long opposed the involvement of Palantir in the provision of care in our NHS. During our last Annual Representative Meeting, a resolution to further formalise our ...

The central issue is not whether inference is Bayesian or frequentist, but whether the analysis is disciplined and legible. Priors can encode genuine external knowledge, yet they can also act as a ...

Dear Editor, Looi’s report on the United States’ contested departure from the World Health Organization (WHO) illustrates more than a legal dispute—it signals a broader shift toward fragmented health ...

A new safety warning to doctors and patients around a rare but potentially fatal side effect of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists has been issued by UK regulators. Sold under brands ...