England’s children’s commissioner has warned that some children are facing “almost Dickensian” levels of poverty that should shame the country into tackling systemic failures in society. Commissioner ...

India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has strongly refuted claims—including from state ministers—that a spate of sudden deaths among younger adults have been caused by the covid-19 vaccine.

We agree that examining the effect of retracted trials on systematic reviews substantially underestimates how problematic studies can affect healthcare evidence.1 Retracting untrustworthy, problematic ...

Sarah Turton/BMA BMA leaders have marked the 20th anniversary of the 2005 suicide bombings in London in a series of commemorative events. Four bombs exploded across the capital on 7 July 2005, causing ...

Recruitment systems will continue to evade responsibility to their applicants unless they face financial consequences, write Elgan Manton-Roseblade and Callum Williams Postgraduate medical recruitment ...

Asking people with type 2 diabetes their language and care preferences is vital to optimise outcomes globally, says Heather Koga As the US writer Ingrid Bengis said, “Words are a form of action, ...

Empowering, participatory approaches are needed to improve quality of life and health outcomes for people with dementia, write Emily Ong and colleagues Dementia is the seventh leading cause of death ...

Stevens M, Brimblecombe N, Gowen S, Skyer R, Moriarty J. Young carers’ experiences of services and support: What is helpful and how can support be improved? PLOS One 2024;19:e0300551. To read the full ...

Iryna Vlasenko and Sylvia Kehlenbrink describe how collaborations with people with diabetes helped avert further humanitarian crises Drug supply chains are often disrupted in humanitarian crises.1 ...

Resident doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in their campaign for full pay restoration. In response to the result, the BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee urged the ...

Empowering people with obesity is essential to reduce stigma and facilitate co-creation of more equitable and effective policies and programmes, write María Eugenia Anselmi, Johanna Ralston , and ...

The government is to streamline the regulation of patient safety in England after a review concluded that there is “considerable duplication and overlap” between different organisations. The review, ...