Increasing the use of vaccines could help tackle the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by reducing the need for antibiotics by 22% globally—or 2.5 billion defined daily doses—every year ...

The UK based drug firm GSK has agreed to pay up to $2.2bn (£1.7bn; €2bn) to settle claims that the heartburn drug ranitidine (previously marketed in the US as Zantac) caused cancer. The deal, ...

This week the inquiry heard further testimony from doctors and patients about their experiences during the pandemic. Matthew Limb and Jacqui Wise report Learning that the first 10 doctors in the UK to ...

Physician associates (PAs) must only see patients in general practice who have been triaged by a GP and only undertake work delegated to them, and agreed with, their named GP supervisor, says new ...

Large language models have the potential to enhance equitable access to health information, but their poor performance in some languages could exacerbate the digital divide in healthcare, say Arthur ...

Regulation and monitoring are needed to prevent harmful bias in AI tools Artificial intelligence (AI) could help achieve global health equity by extending efficient and cost effective healthcare to ...

All lead pipes on public land in the US will be replaced by 2037 under a new rule established by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Biden administration has announced. The new rule also ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...