Research England has been accused of being more interested in “mollifying politicians and their whims” than defending academic freedom in a scathing resignation letter from the chair of its advisory ...

A group of anaesthetists is raising funds for a legal challenge to the General Medical Council’s plans for regulating physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs), claiming the GMC’s ...

Around one in every six to seven people who stop taking antidepressants will experience discontinuation symptoms as a direct result of withdrawal, a large study has estimated. In about 3% of patients ...

Joel Breman, an American infectious diseases physician who worked on Ebola, Guinea worm, malaria, smallpox, and many other conditions, and mentored many in the global health community, has died from ...

France’s medicine regulator, the Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des Produits de Santé (ANSM), has banned the production, sale, and use of two new families of cannabinoid derivatives ...

Medical students and doctors have opportunities along their medical training to take a year out for masters studies. Alexander Mafi offers guidance for those considering postgraduate education during ...

The six year long Infected Blood Inquiry investigated the causes and impacts of NHS treatment with infected blood products in the 1970s and 80s.1 Thousands of adults and children were infected with ...

The goal of prescribing medical interventions is to improve patient outcomes. The challenge of inappropriate prescribing—for example, prescribing antibacterial drugs for viral illnesses, is prevalent ...

The next government has no hope of improving the nation’s health or providing high quality healthcare if it doesn’t look after and retain doctors, the BMA has said in its general election manifesto.1 ...

Thirty thousand people in the UK were given infected blood products over two decades, resulting in 3000 deaths (doi:10.1136/bmj.q1179).1 The scandal has attracted ...

Mathew writes about the potential use of artificial intelligence (AI) in triage in primary care.1 Effective triaging is a complex task requiring clinical experience to ensure patients are signposted ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Dementia rates vary considerably between different ethnic groups. Recent research estimated that black people in the UK are 22% more likely to be diagnosed with ...