Medical associations in the Indian state of Maharashtra have raised concerns over a state government order allowing homeopaths to practise allopathic medicine, including prescribing, after completing ...

Naomi Sutton speaks to George Webster about why she would always choose a career in sexual health Naomi Sutton is a sexual health consultant who was featured on Channel 4’s The Sex Clinic and ...

Democrat mayors from Baltimore, Chicago, and Columbus, Ohio, have filed a lawsuit1 against the Trump administration’s rollback of access under the Affordable Care Act, alleging that the changes will ...

Leading US medical associations have opened two separate lawsuits against the Trump administration in the hope of stopping the growing politicisation of key national health policy. In one lawsuit the ...

Amid international aid cuts, we need renewed focus on our collective goal to bring HIV under control by 2030, write Linda-Gail Bekker and colleagues Since its inception in 2003, the US President’s ...

Microsoft claims its tool can outperform doctors The technology giant Microsoft is claiming that it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can solve complex diagnostic challenges ...

Medicines shortages in England are no longer isolated incidents but a persistent, systemic threat to patients and healthcare delivery, MPs have warned. A report1 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group ...

A BMJ investigation finds more than 90 deals between brands of food or drink that is high in fat, salt, or sugar and sporting entities, amid concerns over such sponsorship’s impact on the UK’s obesity ...

Most people do not experience severe withdrawal when discontinuing antidepressants, and clinical guidelines should be updated to reflect this, say the UK authors of the largest review of the evidence ...

India’s medical regulatory authority has eased faculty recruitment rules to expand the pool of eligible teachers for medical colleges. But the move has drawn criticism from some, who warn that it ...

Twenty years ago, one of the London bomb attacks of 7/7 was on a bus passing the headquarters of the BMA (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1416).1 Staff from the BMA and The BMJ helped with the emergency response. It ...

International studies that risked imminent shutdown because of cuts imposed earlier in the Trump administration may have won a reprieve after an apparent change in policy at the US National Institutes ...