Parliament’s spending watchdog has warned that badly managed private finance contracts could result in poor quality assets, including hospitals, being handed back to the public sector.1 The Public ...

World Congress, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting, called out, with the frankness that has been his characteristic since taking up his post last year, the unacceptable state ...

The UK’s drug regulator has become the first in the world to approve elinzanetant to treat moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms (“hot flushes”) associated with the menopause. The once daily ...

The US has recorded its highest number of confirmed measles cases since the year 2000, adding to fears that falling rates of vaccination are allowing infectious diseases to propagate. The country has ...

A survey by the Unite union1 has found that almost a fifth of female healthcare workers have experienced work related sexual assault. Unite counts 65 000 women in the healthcare sector among its ...

Spain has overturned a decades old ban that prevented people with HIV from donating their organs, opening the door for transplantations between HIV positive individuals. The new regulation, published ...

Thousands of victims of the UK’s infected blood scandal have been “harmed further” by the operation of the compensation scheme set up by the government, the senior judge who chaired the public inquiry ...

Risk of progression differs in high risk and low risk cases when surgery is omitted Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a non-obligate precursor lesion of invasive breast cancer. Since the ...

Editors and publishers have a duty to resist Public trust in scientific integrity is eroded by the politicisation of institutions under Donald Trump’s US presidency. The implications extend far beyond ...

Twenty years ago, one of the London bomb attacks of 7/7 was on a bus passing the headquarters of the BMA (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1416).1 Staff from the BMA and The BMJ helped with the emergency response. It ...

Naomi Sutton speaks to George Webster about why she would always choose a career in sexual health Naomi Sutton is a sexual health consultant who was featured on Channel 4’s The Sex Clinic and ...

Medicines shortages in England are no longer isolated incidents but a persistent, systemic threat to patients and healthcare delivery, MPs have warned. A report1 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group ...