The BMA has urged the government to extend the January deadline for doctors affected by the McCloud age discrimination judgment to determine their tax position, because thousands of doctors have not ...

Over a three year period nearly 90 000 people with a severe mental illness (SMI) have died from physical health conditions that could have been prevented, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said.

The BMA is calling on the UK government to increase the amount of core funding that general practices get for each patient, by 11p to 42p a day, as a “significant first step” towards ending GPs’ ...

Disparities in access to healthcare in England for some patient groups have been made clear in a large analysis published today by two think tanks. People from the most deprived areas are much more ...

India has eliminated trachoma—one of the world’s leading causes of blindness—60 years after the country’s ministry of health first launched control initiatives, the World Health Organization (WHO) has ...

Climate change is altering the world we live in, and children are particularly affected, write Tobias Alfvén and Zulfi Bhutta This summer, new temperature records were set all around the world, ...

The US Supreme Court has ruled that Texas hospitals can continue to deny emergency abortion care to women experiencing miscarriages, despite a federal law that requires hospitals to care for people in ...

The Department for Work and Pensions and housing associations are piling administrative pressure on general practices with requests for paperwork that are diverting doctors from seeing patients, GPs ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Prostate cancer screening may be less controversial if we could reduce overdiagnosis of low risk disease. A new study suggests that magnetic resonance imaging ...

The BMA has offered financial support to a family that is pursuing a legal challenge against the General Medical Council over how it distinguishes between doctors and physician associates. In the ...

Sean Rayford/Getty The death toll from Hurricane Helene reached at least 230 people in the US last weekend as bodies continued to be found across six ...

The BMJ is acting on its promises, and others must too In February 2024, the world’s five largest listed oil companies were reported to have made record profits of $281bn since the start of the war in ...