Patients in Wales face a high risk of increased harm if the NHS does not urgently improve performance and productivity in core services, independent experts have warned. The Ministerial Advisory Group ...

A review of gender dysphoria commissioned by Donald Trump has concluded that the evidence “remains very low across all intervention types” but made no mention of the research needed to meet the needs ...

Vanderslott discusses several shortcomings of covid-19 vaccination that need to be tackled in preparation for future pandemics.1 My colleagues and I have identified an additional area of concern.2 We ...

Women living in US states that have abortion bans, such as Louisiana or Texas, are almost at twice the risk of dying during pregnancy, childbirth, or shortly after giving birth than women in states ...

A drug that was approved last year for uterine fibroids is now available for patients of reproductive age who have previously had medical or surgical treatment for endometriosis. In final draft ...

Ruth Segovia y Mayoral describes her experience of living with immune thrombocytopenia and why she wishes health professionals were able to prescribe rest I have always resisted defining myself by my ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr, now the US health secretary, ordered medical journals to “start publishing real science and stop retracting the real science.” Now, after delivering 100 days of global disruption, ...

Pope I, Clark LV, Clark A, et al. Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (COSTED): a multicentre randomised controlled trial. Emergency Medicine Journal 2024;41:276-282. To read the ...

The arterial side of the vascular system becomes stiffer with age and intensive treatment of hypertension in older people might do more harm than good if it leads to falls or cerebral hypoperfusion.

What you need to know Adrenal insufficiency is the inadequate production of the hormone cortisol from the adrenal glands. Global prevalence ranges from 0.4/100 000 (South Korea) to 15-22/100 000 ...

Misinformation was already a worry before the covid pandemic and has only grown since. Kamran Abbasi asks the LSHTM’s Heidi Larson and Martin McKee what doctors can do about it ### Biographies Heidi ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research The scale and impact of modern health care can be mind-boggling. “Approximately 93 million computed tomography (CT) examinations are performed on 62 million ...