The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has banned the mercury based preservative thiomersal (known in the US as thimerosal) from all influenza vaccines distributed in the US. Justifying the ...

Resident doctors joined picket lines across England this morning (25 July) to mark the start of their five day strike over pay, after talks with the government failed earlier this week. Although most ...

Attacks on healthcare and violations of medical neutrality—the fundamental principle that medical care must operate free of political or military interference—have become alarmingly unexceptional in ...

The line manager of a transgender doctor who was asked to leave a women’s changing room by a nurse thought that the incident might be a hate crime reportable to police, she told an employment tribunal ...

Doctors, nurses, and medical auxiliaries throughout Bolivia went on strike for six days in July over an unpaid annual bonus considered a crucial part of their income. The strikes—which led to the ...

Stokel-Walker summarises the artificial intelligence (AI) tools being used to record doctor-patient conversations.1 I encourage clinicians who are using ambient scribing to familiarise themselves with ...

What you need to know A parent visits their general practitioner with their 1 year old child, who is due to receive several vaccinations. During the appointment, the parent asks whether it is OK to ...

Unsafe conditions and abusive practices are systemic in immigration detention facilities, writes Vicki B Gaubeca “We had to sleep on a bus for two nights, sitting on hard seats and shackled,” and they ...

A Nuffield Trust analysis has shown that resident doctors’ pay is still behind 2010-11 levels in real terms. The think tank published the data as NHS England’s chief executive said that doctors should ...

Patients need reassurance that they can trust healthcare professionals to feel truly safe, writes Liz Sutton Patient safety as an academic and applied discipline has arisen as the result of evidence ...

The UK’s drugs regulator has introduced new regulations that will enable hospitals to perform the final manufacturing steps of personalised gene therapy treatments. The Medicines and Healthcare ...

Doctors, healthcare workers, and aid staffers are now collapsing from starvation in Gaza and risk death queueing for food, humanitarian organisations have warned. The death toll at and around ...