Experts have voiced concerns over the significant presence of industry figures on the UK government’s new Food Strategy Advisory Board, after it emerged that 50% of its membership represented food ...

New testimony gathered by the BMA details instances of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) making incorrect clinical decisions, dangerously prescribing medication, introducing ...

The Netflix series Adolescence is hard to escape. One of the judges at our South Asia Awards in Delhi last weekend told me that his family were gripped by the drama about a teenage schoolboy in ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research There are so many studies published about vitamin D—about a dozen each day—it’s hard to keep up. One that stands out is a double-blind randomised controlled ...

The General Medical Council is appealing to the High Court against a decision by a medical practitioners tribunal to suspend a consultant for 12 months for a “one-off” rape of a young woman instead of ...

Khalaf Z, Bush A, Saglani S, et al. Influence of age on clinical characteristics, pharmacological management and exacerbations in children with asthma. Thorax 2024;79:112-119. To read the full NIHR ...

The UK government’s tepid response to the House of Lords Food, Diet, and Obesity Committee report on the obesity crisis is concerning,1 particularly its refusal to exclude food companies from policy ...

Reform in Scotland fails to ease pressure on GPs A new deal for GPs in Scotland that promised to transform their working lives has been a failure, said a damning report from Audit Scotland. A contract ...

This man in his early 70s presented with a two year history of an itchy rash on his lower limbs. He had initially had a diagnosis of psoriasis and was treated with topical clobetasol propionate.

Action is needed to mitigate disease outbreaks and challenge power imbalances, write Mosoka Papa Fallah and colleagues Countries across Africa are facing more frequent and concurrent infectious ...

The United Nations has called for “justice and answers” after the bodies of eight Palestinian medics, six first responders, and one UN staff member—still in their uniforms and gloves—were recovered ...

The General Medical Council (GMC) plans to appeal against a tribunal’s finding that a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist’s fitness to practise is not currently impaired, although six years ago ...