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 ...

Steven Comyns describes living with an intolerance to many medications and how he would like health professionals to help him find a solution I am 61 years old and have lived with an intolerance to ...

A child at Liverpool’s Alder Hey hospital has died of measles.1 The tragic death comes less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the ...

An NHS consultant vascular surgeon has appeared in court charged with fraud for allegedly trying to claim more than £460 000 from insurers for two below-the-knee amputations that were self-inflicted.

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 ...

The world’s wellness industry is worth trillions of dollars. The non-profit Global Wellness Institute claims that the wellness industry is worth four times as much as the drug industry.1 That’s a lot ...

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 ...

Studies suggest that some commercially available health tests are inaccurate and unsuitable for public use. Rebecca Coombes , Hristio Boytchev , and Gareth Iacobucci ask if regulation is adequately ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...