A new healthy food standard will force supermarkets and food manufacturers to encourage people to make healthier food choices, the government has said. The move, which will be introduced as part of ...

The recent shake-up of abortion laws in England and Wales marks an important moment for abortion rights, but full decriminalisation remains essential, say Jayne Kavanagh and Hayley Webb We welcomed ...

India’s organ transplantation programme is crippled by insufficient funding, a shortage of specialised doctors, and procedural delays, especially in its public hospitals, according to an official ...

The origins of SARS-CoV-2 remain unsolved, concludes the full report from the World Health Organization’s Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO).1 Despite more than three ...

Has the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)—which pays GPs for recording processes and achieving clinical outcomes—led to improvements in patient care? This is the question that Ho and colleagues ...

The prevalence of mental ill health in England is worsening, with higher numbers of people experiencing problems and less than half receiving any treatment, NHS survey data suggest. The proportion of ...

Dear Editor, 39 years ago I led a project to improve Hepatitis B immunisation rates among gay men in Swindon. We ran a clinic upstairs in a town centre pub in the early evening. 68% of those we ...

Dear Editor, We fully agree with the concerns of Peter Doshi regarding reliability, efficacy and safety profile of ticagrelor. In our opinion, the superiority of the costly ticagrelor over clopidogrel ...

Treatment requires a personalised approach When women reach the menopause, they can face difficulties in accessing good advice about management of their symptoms. The challenge for their healthcare ...

The legal system, an ancient butt of jokes about its absurd rulings and quirks, may be the only authority standing between us and our self-inflicted doom. Wherever we look—where democratic rights are ...

Doctors should provide high quality, evidence based care reflecting individual preferences and needs, regardless of weight, argue Juan Franco and colleagues Doctors have traditionally recommended ...

There is a current emphasis on transformation in the NHS being driven as close to the patient as possible, namely by focusing on neighbourhoods. General practice represents the largest number of ...