New parents should be offered only infant formula products with plain standardised packaging while in hospital, to avoid being led into subsequent costly brand loyalty, the UK’s competition regulator ...

All alcoholic beverages should carry prominent health warning labels to highlight the heightened risk of cancer from drinking, the World Health Organization has advised. A report from WHO Europe1 ...

Improved cancer outcomes are the real target, argue Pat Price and Mark Lawler A good news story about cancer was released at the start of this year by NHS England.1 Over the period between September ...

Doctors in training in the UK have been made to feel like a “number on a spreadsheet being shoved around,” in a fragmented and “incredibly destructive” system, the BMA’s chair of council, Philip ...

I welcome Martin and colleagues’ thought provoking reflections on the role of general practice in delivering primary prevention for asymptomatic people.1 Illich’s concepts of clinical and social ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr has been approved by the Senate and sworn in by President Donald Trump as head of the US Department of Health and Human Services.12 After being sworn in on 13 February, Kennedy, ...

Government must provide hope, clarity, and investment The NHS is in crisis after a decade of austerity, covid-19, and political failures since 2010 that weakened the health service and constrained ...

On 30 January 2024, the General Medical Council’s guidance on doctors’ use of social media came into effect. At paragraph 14 it reads: “You must not use social media to abuse, discriminate against, ...

Legal representatives of the BMA and the General Medical Council have faced off in the High Court over the appropriate language that should be used when describing physician associates (PAs) and ...

Marie Louise (May) was born in Birkenhead, Liverpool, into a medical family. She was educated at Saint Helen and Saint Katherine school in Oxfordshire. Before entry to medical school, she experienced ...

A federal judge has ordered the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restore webpages ...

Larger retailers in Wales may be prevented from promoting junk food in their shops under government plans to boost healthier eating and reduce obesity levels. If approved next month, new legislation ...