A planned clinical trial to assess the safety of puberty blockers in children with gender distress poses too many ethical and methodological problems to proceed. That was the verdict from experts ...

Despite the headlines, covid-19 vaccines remain more widely accessible in the US than in the UK.  Owen Dyer  investigates US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr recently moved to restrict access to ...

Elisabeth Mahase hears how doctors can support colleagues who are struggling, including with burnout Sue Carr, General Medical Council deputy medical director, says, “In August we published our annual ...

Diabetes is one of the most common conditions in the world and is associated with a broad range of adverse effects in multiple organ systems. Roughly half of all patients with diabetes will develop a ...

Objective To develop and validate a novel risk prediction model for incident major adverse liver outcomes (MALO) in a primary care setting. Design Population based cohort study. Setting Sweden, with ...

Main outcome measures The main outcome was the type of injuries observed by international healthcare workers during the ...

Swedish authorities are considering requests for “de-diagnosis services” for autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity ...

Donald Trump has advised pregnant women not to take paracetamol (acetaminophen in the US, sold as Tylenol), claiming that its ...

Unexpected US intervention has led to a declaration to tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs) failing to be approved at the ...

I have never been arrested before, but I went to London’s Parliament Square on 6 September with that as my sole objective. I ...

GPs have been labelled the gatekeepers of the NHS: part of our job is to sort out who can be safely and effectively treated ...

Social media plays an increasingly important role in public health communication. It allows public health organisations to reach large numbers of people rapidly, in order to influence their health ...