People living in the most deprived areas of the UK are much more likely to die from cancer, with death rates almost 60% higher than in the most affluent areas, a new analysis has found. The work by ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has approved fenfluramine (Fintepla) for the treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) in people aged 2 years and ...

Discrimination experienced by doctors from ethnic minorities has been exposed in a survey carried out by the BMA in Scotland.1 It found that almost two thirds of respondents have experienced or ...

Nearly 18 months after NHS England announced its intention to allow scientists to analyse general practice data for research, the scheme finally looks set to go ahead. Elisabeth Mahase examines how it ...

Some English words are more euphonious than others, and there are many lists of words that their collectors have labelled “the most beautiful words in English.” I have analysed 372 of these and have ...

A senior GP partner who made false allegations to the General Medical Council about a colleague has been struck off the UK medical register after the GMC accused him of serious dishonesty and ...

Four years on from the founding of the NHS Race and Health Observatory, Habib Naqvi looks back on the progress made and warns ...

Nicaragua’s health ministry has confirmed that 30 people have been infected by the New World screwworm ( Cochliomyia ...

A collaborative dialogue between clinician and patient can make a huge difference to patient experience, writes Stephanie O’Donohue It is vital that patients feel safe and supported when accessing ...

Doctors’ leaders have condemned a “catastrophic” error in the marking of a high stakes medical exam that left almost 300 candidates with an incorrect result. The error affected nearly a fifth (283 of ...

Doctors and healthcare providers in the US have been warned over a surge in serious health problems related to easily ...

The steady rise in life expectancy has slowed across Europe since 2011, with England experiencing the biggest slowdown of the 20 countries studied, researchers have shown. Diet, physical inactivity, ...