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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

GP Catherine Bell tells Erin Dean how writing poetry has connected her to likeminded medics and mums Arriving back at work as a GP from her second maternity leave just a month before the country ...

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 ...