Afghanistan has made important strides in healthcare delivery and outcomes despite political instability, but withdrawal of international funding threatens progress and system collapse, write Sabera ...

The legal definition of a woman in equalities law is based on biological sex, the UK’s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously, ending long running controversy over whether the term could include a person ...

Mumtaz Patel has been elected president of the Royal College of Physicians for the next four years with a promise to “modernise the college and re-establish the RCP as the voice of our membership and ...

Central to the government's mission to improve health and fix the NHS is a “shift from sickness to prevention.”1 Yet key indicators suggest we are moving in the wrong direction. Healthy life ...

Many high risk, high reward medical therapies that use cutting edge science are proving themselves in clinical trials. But are health services ready to pay for them—and how? Marianne Guenot reports On ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research It wasn’t long ago that we’d routinely. advise people with heart failure and fluid overload to restrict their fluid intake. Nowadays, restriction advice is ...

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that doctors in two children’s end-of-life cases may be named, to allow the parents to tell their story about what happened to them and their child in hospital and in ...

A woman in her early 60s presented with a three day history of a widespread, itchy rash. She had no relevant history and was not on any regular medications, but the rash occurred after she had worn ...

Role of artificial intelligence in identifying colorectal cancer is still evolving Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide, often arising from precancerous adenomas.12 ...

This article introduces a series of papers on new guidance for the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach. Core GRADE was produced in response to the need ...

The UK population’s health is getting worse. Health inequalities are widening and obesity rates rising, particularly among children in deprived areas (doi:10.1136/bmj.q2819 doi:10.1136/bmj.r525 doi:10 ...

The summaries of product characteristics (SmPCs; previously called data sheets) of certain drugs sometimes specify that they should be used “at the discretion of the physician,” often when advising ...