A gambling company has lost its appeal to open an arcade in Sheffield city centre after the director of public health successfully argued that gambling harms are increased when premises are located in ...

To revive clinical research in the UK we need to streamline systems and dismantle bureaucracy, writes Masud Husain Clinical research in the UK is now at a critical point. What used to be a shining ...

Elections are under way for a new RCP president. But what does the college want in its new leader, Adele Waters asks, and, perhaps more importantly, what does it need? Since last year the Royal ...

As a fifth of adults in the UK have diabetes or pre-diabetes, the politics of physical activity policy must be tackled, argue Karen Milton and colleagues Recent data show that one in five adults in ...

A clinical trial of puberty blockers for managing children and adolescents with gender incongruence, announced in February,1 still awaits regulatory and ethical approval, amid warnings by clinicians ...

The inherently uncertain trajectories of terminal illnesses pose challenges for clinicians The private member’s bill on assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales is now in ...

This year’s above inflation public health grant settlement is welcome.1 But with declining healthy life expectancy and funding still 26% lower per person than a decade ago, we need a multi-year ...

The government has announced it will be halving the size of NHS England to ensure taxpayers’ money is being put to the “best possible use.” Three of NHS England’s leading board members—chief financial ...

In its 80 year history, the United Nations has been exclusively ruled by men. A growing movement is calling for women’s leadership of the international body to help bring about reform and strengthen ...

A focus on stroke at the start of the century transformed treatments and improved outcomes, but pressure on the NHS has seen those advances stymied. Emma Wilkinson looks for a reboot A boost to stroke ...

A senior government minister wanted to “circumvent” the UK’s regulatory processes to expedite a proposal by the businessman James Dyson to supply ventilators to the NHS during the covid-19 pandemic, ...

US states that severely restricted abortion after the 2022 Dobbs decision had significantly fewer women’s healthcare clinicians two years later than states whose abortion laws did not change.1 In the ...