Synthetic drugs are raising the risk of an epidemic worse than that of fentanyl in the UK and Europe. Marianne Guenot explains what these drugs are and what clinicians need to know Mat Southwell had ...

Coordinated action and binding targets are required The UK government published its long awaited child poverty strategy at the end of 2025. It lands amid the highest levels of child poverty in the UK ...

A shortage of NHS hearing aid batteries is forcing hospitals and GP surgeries to ration supplies. Some patients are reportedly turning off their hearing aids in order to conserve the batteries, ...

Courtney McNamara and Benjamin Hawkins argue for greater attention to the health effects of trade policy amid tariff turmoil affecting everything from medicine access to food availability and economic ...

US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants. The revelation comes as ...

The government has announced plans to tackle regional inequalities in cancer outcomes by training more specialist doctors to work in coastal and rural areas.1 New measures, to be set out in the ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now “open to bayesian statistics,” contrasting this with the frequentist approach that the agency and the drug industry have historically relied on for ...

Two royal colleges representing more than 50 000 medical professionals1 have chosen to stop posting on the social media platform X. And a third has told The BMJ it is reviewing its use of social media ...

The US’s withdrawal from WHO makes Europe the system stabiliser in global health multilateralism, writes Ilona Kickbusch At the upcoming executive board meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO), ...

A biologic injection that reduces chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) flare-ups by around a third has been approved for use on the NHS in England and Wales. The National Institute for Health ...

During the recent industrial dispute between the BMA and the government, many doctors have commented online that goodwill and public support are no longer priorities for the medical profession. Public ...

A UK plan to deport “illegal” migrants to France “knowingly harms” survivors of torture and trafficking who are detained under its powers, says a medical human rights group. The UK charity Medical ...