The judge who heads the High Court’s family division has warned of the risks of obtaining hormone prescriptions from online gender clinics, after an expert witness told the court that a teenager had ...

Women in the US should begin breast cancer screening with mammography at age 40 and be screened every other year until the age of 74, the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended.1 US doctors ...

Medical academia is experiencing a “deepening crisis” that calls for immediate action, the outgoing acting president of the Academy of Medical Sciences has warned. In a letter to academy fellows, Paul ...

These children are at risk of poor physical, emotional, mental, and social outcomes In March 2024, the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reported new data on household food insecurity for ...

Credit: Richard Smith “Risktaker, obsessive, determined.” That’s how neurologist Jenny Vaughan replied when asked by The BMJ to sum up her personality in three words.1 If there had been a fourth word, ...

The BMA has asked the General Medical Council (GMC) to work with it to review the basis on which former GP and climate activist Sarah Benn found herself in front of a medical tribunal.1 Benn was ...

The state of Florida, the third most populous state in the US, banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy on 1 May, bringing down the 15 week limit set in 2022 which replaced the previous limit of ...

The kidney and liver transplantation programmes of a major hospital in Houston, Texas, have been suspended while authorities investigate claims that the surgeon in charge changed patients’ donor ...

A global review of three decades of health data has revealed huge health differences in men and women that begin in adolescence and grow throughout life. The study, published in Lancet Public Health , ...

Over the past year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has grappled with the largest outbreak of mpox in the past half century. Despite obstacles, an enhanced response to the crisis can provide a ...

Whistleblowers in the NHS are targeted by a systemic employer “playbook” designed to silence or remove them, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) has warned. The warning came on ...

We need to define the concept of early diagnosis The importance of early diagnosis, particularly in cancer, has been covered widely in the media. Improving early diagnosis rates is a politically ...