A bill promising to prioritise UK trained medical graduates for training places has become law. However, doctors’ leaders say questions remain over international medical graduates (IMGs) and the ...

Funding uncertainty could weaken the UK’s higher education sector when it’s already under considerable strain, write Mishal S Khan and colleagues The UK health research funding landscape has changed ...

Consultants have urged unions and regulators to protect their freedom of speech after high profile cases of doctors facing regulatory action. At the annual BMA consultants conference this week (4 ...

When the powers that be at King’s College Hospital told neurosurgeon Charles Polkey that it had decided to name a ward after him he was initially reluctant to accept the honour. He only relented after ...

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order aiming to increase domestic production of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate, sold as Roundup.1 Trump’s 18 February order comes under a ...

As public health officials warn about rising emissions from urban wood burning, a BMJ investigation finds that just under a third of councils in high use areas have faced pressure from the stove ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Much is made of how large language models (LLMs) can pass medical licensing exams with ...

Corridor care has been officially defined by NHS England as patients spending “at least 45 minutes” in a clinically inappropriate area, as part of new measures to tackle the crisis. It has now written ...

Clinical trials and equitable care pathways are needed to build on early evidence of benefit Substance use disorders (SUDs) are common and burdensome for patients, families, and health systems,12 yet ...

Health workers and facilities have come under attack across the Middle East as conflict engulfs the region, health leaders and charities warn. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ...

As a young missionary doctor Bill Foege was sent with his wife and young son to eastern Nigeria: it was 1966 and the family ...

Research suggests the drugs have potential for prevention and harm reduction in substance use disorders, writes Ziyad Al-Aly People taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists often ...