Background Low-value practices, defined as tests or treatments that are used in practice despite not being supported by evidence, account for 20%–30% of healthcare expenditure; moreover, some ...

What you need to know Around one in six people experience health related infertility globally and in England,12 which can ...

A former doctor who went on the run in the US more than 20 years ago during his trial for sexual assault has been arrested on ...

Thousands of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in England will be offered a new drug on the NHS to help them walk more ...

The unrest over physician assistants continues to drag on, more than a year after Gillian Leng’s independent review was published. On 17 July 2026 the High Court dismissed a legal challenge to the ...

A challenge to the government’s refusal to release an impact assessment of a controversial pharmaceutical trade deal with the ...

Itching, sleep disturbance, and psychological distress might all be expected to interfere with schoolwork. But two large ...

Two new pressurised metered dose inhalers (pMDIs) with lower carbon emissions have been approved by the UK’s drug regulator ...

Healthcare systems must respond to the harms of image based sexual abuse, writes Stephanie Fohring Growing awareness of ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Critics argue that limited dosing options for polypills mean patients get suboptimal ...

A woman in her 30s presented with a three month history of green discolouration to the distal parts of all her fingernail ...

Importance Patient safety and systems integration (PSSI) simulations help uncover hazards that jeopardise patient safety. Using direct observation, video analysis and systems-focused debriefing, they ...