The Medical Council, the medical regulator for Ireland, has announced that it believes it is not the appropriate body to regulate physician associates (PAs)—in sharp contrast to the position in the UK ...

A storm blew through the Royal College of Physicians of London (RCP) this year. A disastrous extraordinary general meeting, only the third in the college’s 500 year history, led to the resignations of ...

Over the course of the 19th century, across North America and Europe, death slowly migrated from the home to the hospital and came to be viewed as a medical event, and no longer primarily a religious ...

The chief medical officer for England, Chris Whitty, has called on policy makers and politicians to trust their “first instinct” and “be brave” when making decisions on issues that can have an effect ...

Food and climate might not seem connected at first glance. However, the food system drives one-third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is the main cause of biodiversity loss globally.1 ...

People in England and Wales are expected to live fewer years in good health than they did a decade previously, show data from the Office for National Statistics.1 The latest ONS figures reflect the ...

New measures governing how clinical trials are carried out in the UK should make them more streamlined, flexible, and transparent, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has ...

A new report by the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee highlights the scandalous “medical misogyny” that has been affecting women in the UK for far too long.1 The report highlights an ...

The UK government has announced an indefinite ban on the use of puberty blockers for treating under 18s with gender dysphoria, after the Commission on Human Medicines advised that continuing to allow ...

The global community must advocate to sustain midwifery training and services in Afghanistan, says Sabera Turkmani Afghanistan has long had the highest maternal and neonatal mortality in the world.

The BMA’s Scottish General Practitioners Committee (SGPC) has set out a list of demands for the Scottish government to avert plans to ballot GPs on industrial action. The committee has produced a ...

We’re stuck in a vicious cycle. Hospital beds are full. Over 12% of hospital inpatients no longer meet the criteria to be there.12 This has knock-on effects for emergency departments and leads to ...