Doctors and aid workers are watching helplessly as Palestinian children die of starvation and treatable injuries, as the malnutrition crisis in Gaza reaches catastrophic levels. Harrowing images ...

A senior official at the US Food and Drug Administration has suddenly resigned after only three months in the job. Vinay Prasad’s departure followed controversy over a treatment for Duchenne muscular ...

Four universities have suspended or closed their physician associate (PA) programmes in the wake of the Gillian Leng’s review of medical associates and dwindling “opportunities” for students, The BMJ ...

The US Senate confirmed Susan Monarez as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on 29 July, with all Republicans voting in favour and all Democrats voting against her ...

No one would have expected to witness the scale and intensity of starvation that we are seeing in Gaza. In the 1970s, pioneer emergency nutritionists described the difference between an acute food ...

This year is unleashing a series of devastating blows to women’s health worldwide. Cuts to foreign aid.1 Denial of abortion access and reproductive autonomy (doi:10.1136/bmj.r459).2 Targeted attacks ...

Some foundation year two (FY2) doctors due to finish training next week are already looking to leave the UK after failing to find a role in the NHS, The BMJ can reveal. Others have shared how they had ...

A month since the NHS 10 year plan was published,1 many GPs are confused about what comes next. Oddly, for a plan all about neighbourhoods, it contains remarkably little about how and where general ...

Modernisation without equity risks deepening health inequalities The NHS 10 year plan promises radical and aspirational transformations in healthcare delivery, but it risks recreating and perpetuating ...

Mathew’s concern that relying on portfolio, part time, and salaried general practitioners (GPs) prevents us from providing relational generalist care to patients in 2025 are unsupported.1 Having GPs ...

The open access scientific publisher Frontiers plans to retract 122 articles published across five journals after discovering that papers were affected by the “unethical actions” of around 35 authors.

A major inquiry published in 2021 highlighted substandard care and poor awareness of sickle cell disease among health professionals. Carla Delgado explores whether things have improved for patients In ...