UK risks crisis from rising ill health One in five working age adults in the UK are now unfit to work because of ill health, a government report warned. Rising sickness levels mean that the nation ...

Thousands of locally employed doctors—many of them international graduates and from ethnic minorities—are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national ...

The rising number of private antibiotic prescriptions is making it increasingly difficult for the UK to tackle the threat of antimicrobial resistance, a top medical adviser has warned. Speaking at the ...

Recognising the value of preconception and interpregnancy care Gestational weight gain (GWG) remains one of the most closely monitored yet misunderstood aspects of prenatal care. For decades, ...

The first men’s health strategy for England will focus on suicide prevention, alcohol misuse, and gambling problems to help tackle “inequalities and hardships” that men face, the UK government has ...

Ministers must expand HIV testing to settings such as general practices, abortion clinics, women’s health hubs, cervical screening centres, and sexual health clinics, MPs have said. The House of ...

Wes Streeting’s meddling in the case of Rahmeh Aladwan obstructs justice and is an ineffective way to challenge racism, writes Aneez Esmail Rahmeh Aladwan is a British Palestinian doctor, currently ...

The ultraprocessed food (UPF) industry is “mirroring the political playbook used by tobacco, alcohol, and fossil fuel companies” to try to influence government policies, experts have warned.1 ...

This author describes what it is like to live with chronic hemiplegic migraine, and her search for support It took decades for me to receive a diagnosis of chronic migraine, hemiplegic phenotype, with ...

People with a learning disability die prematurely: on average women in this group die 23 years younger than those in the general population, men 19 years younger.1 In 2022, 42% of these deaths were ...

Like almost every doctor, I’ve had to get to grips with artificial intelligence (AI). In some ways this has felt like going through the classic stages of loss and grief. First there’s denial (“It hasn ...

More than 400 military personnel who suffered side effects from the antimalarial drug mefloquine (Lariam) have finally reached a settlement with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) after a nine year ...