MPs have called on the NHS to put slowing the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at the core of its work and make much ...

The waiting list for planned NHS hospital treatment in England has fallen to its lowest level in two years, latest ...

The notion that the health service has emerged as a “winner” from the chancellor’s spending review is a bit like ...

A doctor who met a teenage patient in hospital when he was a medical student, then maintained a long messaging relationship ...

Cuts to funding for foreign aid have left refugees and other forcibly displaced people in countries such as Sudan, Ethiopia, ...

The on-call consultant who failed to refer the teenager Martha Mills to intensive care two days before she died of sepsis will face no sanction, a medical practitioners tribunal has decided. The ...

This man in his 50s presented with a six month history of a large, red, painless ulcer on his left leg (fig 1); widespread nodular rashes; fatigue; anorexia without weight loss; and loss of sensation ...

Scotland is in danger of creating a new “lost tribe” of young doctors who question their future in the profession because of a lack of training opportunities. BMA Scotland found that seven out of 10 ...

O’Doherty LJ, Carter G, Sleath E, et al. Health and wellbeing of survivors of sexual violence and abuse attending sexual assault referral centres in England: the MESARCH mixed-methods evaluation.

Higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness in late adolescence may offer protection against common cancers later in life. In a Swedish cohort of one million 18 year old men, those in the highest ...

Competition for postgraduate medical specialty training posts is causing widespread despair and anger among the UK’s resident doctors (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1023 doi:10.1136/bmj.r1166).12 Applicant ratios ...

A woman in her 80s, with Parkinson’s disease, presented to the emergency department with a four day history of fever, malaise, gritty eyes, sore throat, and a progressive rash all over the body. She ...