Mun-Keat Looi rounds up the latest from another tumultuous week in the US The District of Columbia and 23 US states have launched legal action against President Donald Trump’s administration after the ...

A consultant surgeon who sexually harassed junior female colleagues has been suspended from the medical register for 12 months after a High Court judge ruled that his original eight months suspension ...

Artificial intelligence is infiltrating medicine at many levels, from providing patients with medical advice and summarising patients’ notes to aiding diagnoses. Elisabeth Mahase looks at how the ...

Concerted global efforts to improve maternal healthcare mean that women are far less likely to die in childbirth than they were two decades ago, a new UN report says. But agencies have warned that the ...

On 13 February 2025, a few hours after the US Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr as Secretary of Health and Human Services, President Trump issued an executive order establishing a “Make America ...

Despite blazing a trail as one of the few female medical students of her day, Rosamond Gruer did not expect to work as a doctor after she married. As a mother of four her duties were as a housewife ...

A UK government advisory committee has said that food and drink sweetened with non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) can help people lose a small amount of weight, contrasting with a previous conclusion from the ...

The fallout from the savage cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services continues, as Mun-Keat Looi reports On 27 March the US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, abruptly announced the ...

Khalaf Z, Bush A, Saglani S, et al. Influence of age on clinical characteristics, pharmacological management and exacerbations in children with asthma. Thorax 2024;79:112-119. To read the full NIHR ...

Experts have called for a new alcohol strategy for England as deaths from alcohol reached a record high in 2023, with the average heavy drinker now older. An analysis by the Nuffield Trust and the ...

Healthcare services, patients, and families can work better together to improve care transitions, writes Helen Cowan My husband lives with a spinal cord injury. Hospital admission can be traumatic ...

The Netflix series Adolescence is hard to escape. One of the judges at our South Asia Awards in Delhi last weekend told me that his family were gripped by the drama about a teenage schoolboy in ...