On 26 January 2026 the UK lost its measles elimination status,1 which requires at least 95% of a population to have received two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.2 Vaccine ...

Senior midwife Donna Ockenden will lead the independent review into maternity and neonatal services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT), the government has said. Leeds is one of the 14 trusts ...

Landmark changes allowing resident doctors and newly appointed consultants to vote in key Royal College of Physicians (RCP) elections have been hailed as a watershed moment for the college. For the ...

NHS England has “paused” the prescribing of gender affirming hormones to treat gender incongruence or dysphoria for young people under 18. The health service said that it came to this decision after a ...

In consulting rooms with real patients, there’s a gap between scientific knowledge—largely expressed in number—and poetic knowledge, always expressed in words, writes Iona Heath For most clinicians, ...

One in three calls to Martha’s rule helplines in the first 16 months of the scheme helped NHS staff identify that a patient’s condition was deteriorating, NHS England has said. New data show that ...

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 ...

A Jewish GP who told a Muslim colleague it was “typical of you Muslims to gaslight” has been suspended from the UK medical register for four months. A medical practitioners tribunal also found that ...

From liaising with defence organisations to arriving early and dressing smartly, experts share their advice for doctors preparing for a coroner’s inquest Sean Bourke, emergency medicine consultant, ...

Vinay Prasad, the US Food and Drug Administration chief medical and scientific officer, will leave the agency for the second time, amid a series of disputes with pharmaceutical companies. FDA ...

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 ...

As public health officials warn about rising emissions from urban wood burning, a BMJ investigation finds that just under a third of councils in high use areas have faced pressure from the stove ...