Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA Consultants Committee, speaks to Abi Rimmer about the details of a deal it is putting to members Last month the BMA and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists ...

Ministers have launched a new surveillance system to quickly identify emerging methods of suicide as part of an effort to clamp down on those seeking to sell dangerous products to vulnerable people.

US life expectancy in 2022 was more than a year longer than in 2021, new provisional figures from the Centers for Disease Control show, but the expected post-pandemic rebound was smaller than that ...

A “substantial pivot” is needed to get the fight against malaria back on track after a pause in progress, the World Health Organization has warned.1 There were an estimated 249 million malaria cases ...

The numbers of people infected with and dying of AIDS worldwide have fallen, but sub-Saharan Africa, which for decades was the region hardest hit by AIDS, has seen the biggest reduction, UNAIDS has ...

Pepperer. Grocer. Apothecary. Surgeon apothecary. General practitioner ( The evolution of medical associate professionals in the UK may not enjoy quite the same narrative arc, steeped as it is in ...

A doctor who discharged a patient from a hospital’s accident and emergency department without reviewing blood test results that showed clear signs of a cardiac emergency, then altered the patient’s ...

James Kyle, former consultant surgeon and chairman of the BMA Representative Body, has died in Wester Ross at the age of 98. Born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, he was educated at Ballymena Academy.

Nicholas Henry Dyer was born in Brentwood, Essex, on 8 March 1937 and was educated at Clifton College. He studied medicine at Cambridge (matriculation Clare College 1955), as his father Ronald had ...

Jane Feinmann reports on ActionAid UK, which champions women’s rights during humanitarian crises The plight of women and girls managing menstruation during humanitarian crises is below the radar of ...

Former US covid-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha tells The BMJ about antivirals, long covid, his worries for the winter season—and why the “partisanisation” of vaccination worries him Taking office ...

Hans Ludwig Frankel was born to Viennese parents, in the Baltic city of Danzig. Shortly after Anschluss, with his parents and three siblings he came through Switzerland to the UK in the spring of 1938 ...