GPs will be able to prescribe semaglutide (Wegovy) to overweight patients who have had a heart attack or stroke, or who have ...

The prime minister has given the BMA 48 hours to call off strikes by resident doctors or lose up to 4500 extra specialty ...

Iain had a happy childhood growing up in Carbeth, Stirlingshire, and attending school at Glasgow Academy. He was an academic ...

Incoming features to the NHS App will mean that patients can manage their health “on demand, 24/7,” NHS England has said. Liz ...

We often talk about pressures facing the NHS in terms of waiting lists, workforce shortages, and hospital overcrowding. But ...

Nigel Starey grew up in rural Buckinghamshire and attended St Edward’s School in Oxford before studying physiology (biology ...

Amid growing pressures on health systems, Josje Kok and colleagues argue that healthcare regulation must evolve beyond ...

A dedicated treatment pathway for women with endometriosis who are having difficulty conceiving has been added to national ...

Evidence must inform policy on air pollution, even when politically inconvenient The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...

Public confidence in regulation demands that complaints are handled transparently and judged on evidence alone, write Rubin ...

As a society we’ve made progress in removing much of the stigma attached to both physical and mental illness. When I was a student, cancer was still a whispered word, couched in euphemisms (a lump, a ...

Reforms to the General Medical Council will not allow physician assistants (PAs) to receive certificates of completion of training (CCTs), the government and regulator have said. Doctors raised the ...