A former GP and climate activist who spent 32 days in prison for breaching an injunction banning protests outside an oil terminal against the production and use of fossil fuels has been suspended from ...

David Kang shares what it is like to live with someone with profound autism and the impact this can have on the whole family Our household doesn’t rely on alarm clocks. Instead, it’s the consistent ...

Doctor activists are in the news. Sarah Benn, a former GP from Birmingham, has had her medical licence suspended for five months after being arrested for taking part in peaceful protests by Just Stop ...

The medical community, human rights groups, and agencies including the UN and the Council of Europe have condemned the UK for passing the Rwanda deportation bill, calling it an inhumane piece of ...

Chloe Milton describes the challenges of being left handed in clinical environments that are designed for righthanded use The surgeon glared at me. When I asked what I’d done wrong they replied that ...

The BMA has expressed disappointment at the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of a judicial review into the government’s handling of NHS pension reforms, saying that doctors were being made to pay for the ...

The number of adverse impacts on health related to extreme weather and climate events is continuing to rise in Europe, an EU report1 has found. The report from the Copernicus Climate Change Service ...

Argentina’s healthcare system is under threat from the dengue crisis and its president’s systematic dismantling of science. Martín de Ambrosio reports The worst dengue outbreak in the history of the ...

New definitions of oral health provide an opportunity to change mindsets and promote innovation to tackle high levels of unmet needs, but this will only be realised with a radical change in practice, ...

An evaluation of the NHS digital weight management programme shows that people who completed it lost 3.9 kg over 12 weeks. When everyone who started the scheme but did not finish it were included, the ...

Urgent action is needed to stem the exodus of doctors from the NHS, which is damaging patient care and costing taxpayers up to £2.4bn a year, the BMA has warned. With an estimated 15 000 to 23 000 ...

Black, Hispanic, and Native Americans receive less effective and timely healthcare than white Americans in all 50 US states, according to a report by the Commonwealth Fund.1 The survey measured 25 ...