Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Prostate cancer screening may be less controversial if we could reduce overdiagnosis of low risk disease. A new study suggests that magnetic resonance imaging ...

The BMA has offered financial support to a family that is pursuing a legal challenge against the General Medical Council over how it distinguishes between doctors and physician associates. In the ...

Sean Rayford/Getty The death toll from Hurricane Helene reached at least 230 people in the US last weekend as bodies continued to be found across six ...

The BMJ is acting on its promises, and others must too In February 2024, the world’s five largest listed oil companies were reported to have made record profits of $281bn since the start of the war in ...

Sarah Benn, a former GP, was suspended by the MPTS after an arrest for her involvement in climate protests, raising the question of when and whether doctors in such cases should be sanctioned First, ...

Growing evidence shows how climate change is negatively affecting children’s health and wellbeing throughout the life course. Children who were aged 10 or younger in 2020 will live in a much hotter ...

Health professionals and policy makers need to take action johnji@tsinghua.edu.cn Climate change involves progressively more extreme weather events, leading to an increase in risk of adverse health ...