Médecins Sans Frontières is striving to meet the needs of displaced people in Sudan, who are injured, malnourished, and ...

The crisis in the UK’s medical workforce will be helped by new legislation that prioritises UK graduates for medical training ...

Foreign body ingestion is common in young children, most often involving coins, magnets, or button batteries. Coins usually ...

A coalition of medical and public health groups have filed a legal motion to cancel changes to the childhood vaccine schedule ...

A treatment that restores normal kidney function in almost half of patients with lupus nephritis has been approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Obinutuzumab ...

A woman in her 20s presented to the emergency department with acute onset of shortness of breath and chest pain after removal of an acupuncture needle from the posteromedial aspect of her left scapula ...

Neil Smart, consultant surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, leader of clinical trials, and editor in chief of Colorectal Disease, couldn’t give his lecture at last year’s annual meeting of ...

Members of the House of Lords have voted in favour of an amendment to a bill that would ban the use of social media among young people aged under 16 years. The decision is independent of a recently ...

The use of medication to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has spiked “dramatically” among adults in the UK, and particularly women, new research suggests. A team of British, Dutch ...

One of the most important advances to emerge from the covid-19 pandemic is the ability to measure population health at unprecedented scale and speed. Our study of time trends for long term conditions, ...

A man in his 50s presented with a two week history of pruritic erythema and blisters on the trunk, which rapidly progressed across the body (fig 1). He had a 10 year history of hypertension treated ...

England’s child vaccination strategy is failing and the fact that so many children are at risk of life threatening diseases is a “national disgrace,” a damning report has found.1 MPs from the Health ...