UK regulators must produce clear guidelines for the prescribing and monitoring of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists for weight loss, particularly when treatment is initiated online, GP ...

Reform UK was the largest winning political party in England’s recent council elections and is now set to dominate local government in parts of the country. Adrian O’Dowd looks at how this may affect ...

The UK government is failing to measure the “true cost of inaction on social care” and the harms a broken system is causing to the country and the NHS, MPs have warned. They said that, unless this ...

Any future assisted dying services in the UK should not be based in general practice, nor should any doctor be forced to be involved in them, GPs have insisted. Representatives at the annual UK ...

AI therapy apps are increasingly being offered to patients needing mental health support as services struggle to keep up with demand. Alexander Mafi explores the advantages and possible pitfalls of ...

Former prime minister Tony Blair sparked controversy last month when he claimed that strategies to tackle climate change were causing public disengagement and division and were “doomed to fail.” ...

Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale” was the rallying cry of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), published in 2008.1 It remains appropriate to the World Health ...

People in the most deprived areas of England are almost twice as likely to be admitted to hospital for infectious disease as those in least deprived areas, a report from the UK Health Security Agency ...

The use of penicillin during the second world war was highly effective in reducing the ill effects of infections in wounded soldiers, particularly between D-day in June 1944 and VE day in May 1945.

Proposals for a new centralised care record are under the spotlight, amid worries about China gaining access to GP records through UK Biobank. Stephen Armstrong reports On 15 April the Guardian ...

Two children from Gaza who arrived in London on 26 April for urgent medical treatment were the first medical evacuees from the region to the UK since the conflict between Hamas and Israel broke out on ...

Pope I, Clark LV, Clark A, et al. Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (COSTED): a multicentre randomised controlled trial. Emergency Medicine Journal 2024;41:276-282. To read the ...