Babies and children aged three months to 11 years with uncomplicated community acquired pneumonia should be offered a three day rather than five day course of antibiotics, the National Institute for ...

Almost 700 medical students in the UK have been given “placeholder” jobs, meaning that they know the deanery they will be in when they start foundation training in August but not the hospital where ...

The movement to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in healthcare threatens to reverse decades of progress towards tackling systemic inequities that harm marginalised patients ...

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said he will order the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to revise its recommendation, which has stood for seven decades, that fluoride be added ...

Making lives better when times are hard can seem an insurmountable challenge. But local initiatives with joined-up working can have an impact, reports Emma Wilkinson Children born in 2008 in the UK ...

The UK government has announced plans for a new Health Data Research Service, which will give researchers a secure single access point to national scale datasets as well as NHS trust level data. The ...

The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) is calling for urgent reforms to tackle sexual harassment in the NHS after a High Court judge ruled that a surgeon who harassed junior colleagues ...

Vaccination for shingles could be linked to a reduction in the risk of developing dementia, a study published in Nature has reported.1 Researchers at Stanford University in California analysed cases ...

Piers Recordon was born in 1936. In 1961 he qualified from St John’s College, Cambridge, which he loved, and Barts, on which he was less keen. He met his wife, Gill, while doing house jobs; they ...

The US measles outbreak that began in Texas in late January is now spreading more widely, with 505 cases in Texas and 56 in nearby New Mexico, making a national total of more than 600 cases in 21 ...

The BMJ’s editor met with Ashish Jha, dean of public health and former covid response coordinator to President Biden, to discuss the state of science and public health in the US ### Biography Ashish ...

More than 1500 additional GPs have been recruited to England’s workforce in the past six months under the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS), it has been announced, equating to 851 full time ...