Symptoms should be prioritised ahead of testing A societal transformation of attitudes and beliefs surrounding menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) has outpaced provider education, leaving primary care ...

Health interventions can help remedy many of the hazards around us, whether disease, discomfort, uncertainty, or instability. Drugs for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have proved useful to ...

Maternity and neonatal care services are badly in need of an overhaul at national level to improve safety locally, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) has warned in a review. The ...

Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports ...

More than half a million people in Gaza are now “trapped in famine,” as food and clean water continue to be used as weapons of war as part of Israel’s “genocidal campaign,” aid agencies have said. The ...

The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has issued its own childhood vaccination schedule, including a recommendation for children to receive the covid-19 vaccine, in a major split with the US ...

Recent years have seen the emergence of research integrity sleuths, who devote time to detecting misconduct in academic research publications, a major source of which comes from paper mills, ...

Public health experts have warned that inadequate policies on conflicts of interest in government commissioned research into gambling “will only lead to more harm” for members of the public. Last year ...

The union representing UK physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) has said that hostility faced by some PAs from ...

A new multimillion pound programme to test new obesity services and treatments, funded in part by the weight loss drug manufacturer Eli Lilly, could be seen as “marketing by another name,” public ...

Doctors could soon be offering sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors as a first line treatment option for all patients with diabetes, not just those with heart disease.1 The change has ...

What is lifestyle medicine? It’s a massive hit on social media, where it seems to have captured the zeitgeist of a generation ...