The legal definition of a woman in equalities law is based on biological sex, the UK’s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously, ending long running controversy over whether the term could include a person ...

Darcie is a woman in her early 20s with migraine, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, anorexia, irritable bowel syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, autism, attention ...

Many high risk, high reward medical therapies that use cutting edge science are proving themselves in clinical trials. But are health services ready to pay for them—and how? Marianne Guenot reports On ...

Revenue could reduce funding gaps and inequalities The UK’s health and social care services are increasingly strained by rising demands and widening health inequalities—in life expectancy, infant ...

The global conversation is locked into trade deficits. While tariffs can be temporary, as we’re seeing, debt has a longer term impact. The question is, if we truly believe that people and countries ...

The UK government has launched an independent review to examine how hundreds of children in England were given a misdiagnosis by NHS hearing services.1 Camilla Kingdon, a consultant neonatologist at ...

Making lives better when times are hard can seem an insurmountable challenge. But local initiatives with joined-up working can have an impact, reports Emma Wilkinson Children born in 2008 in the UK ...

The health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, has said that he is reviewing the “bizarre situation” of UK medical graduates having to compete with doctors from overseas for jobs in the NHS.

The summaries of product characteristics (SmPCs; previously called data sheets) of certain drugs sometimes specify that they should be used “at the discretion of the physician,” often when advising ...

In a recent BMJ podcast interview Clare Owen , director of the Medical Schools Council, discusses racism in medical education with Victor Adebowale , chair of the NHS Confederation ### Biographies ...

Campaigners who are taking the General Medical Council (GMC) to court alleging failure to properly regulate physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) have been cleared to submit new ...