The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the weight loss drug semaglutide, marketed as Wegovy, for the treatment of patients with a severe form of liver disease called metabolic associated ...

Medicaid cuts mean worse care for patients, less money for hospitals, and greater harm for everyone, writes Mitchell H Katz Until the US passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, being on a low income ...

Some 1200 patients a year in England are set to benefit from a “breakthrough” life extending treatment for bladder cancer after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved it ...

The New York City Health Department has reported five deaths and 108 confirmed cases of legionnaires’ disease, a type of pneumonia, since the outbreak in Harlem was identified on 25 July. It seems to ...

Health interventions can help remedy many of the hazards around us, whether disease, discomfort, uncertainty, or instability. Drugs for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have proved useful to ...

CQC highlights risks of filling rota gaps with PAs Great Ormond Street Hospital’s use of physician assistants (PAs) to fill gaps in its surgical rota raises concerns over supervision and decision ...

A right-hand dominant man in his 50s who, six weeks previously, had undergone washout of a volar thumb wound, presented to the plastic surgery clinic with a one week history of erythematous cutaneous ...

I agree with Smith and colleagues’ key recommendations about NHS management reform.1 But three additional systemic changes are needed. Firstly, the framework used for investigating doctors and ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research The Eatwell Guide follows recommendations by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), and focuses on macronutrients such as carbohydrates and fat, ...

Experts are concerned by claims—including possible future treatments for autism and diabetes—made about the value of banking baby teeth. Emma Wilkinson reports Video 1 Journalist Emma Wilkinson joins ...

Maternity and neonatal care services are badly in need of an overhaul at national level to improve safety locally, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) has warned in a review. The ...

More than 5000 doctors have signed petitions calling on their royal colleges to be more vocal on the situation in Gaza and to work together to advocate for a ceasefire and the protection of health ...