Approved names of medicines, later known as British Approved Names, were introduced in the UK in the 1940s, as part of wartime efforts to ensure the supply of important medicines, including ...

A “culture of blame shifting and unaccountability” in the NHS has led to the service continuing to use systems that criminalise people in distress during mental health crises, a report by the charity ...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on 24 April that emergency abortions should be allowed in states with strict abortion bans. An emergency abortion is a rare procedure carried out to save a ...

Badly needed support for children’s mental health in England should be focused on schools with the creation of “one stop shop” information hubs, according to experts. A new report1 calls for a radical ...

Equitable access to fertility care must be recognised as a human right so that it can be better balanced with other societal needs, say Silke Dyer , David Adamson , Marcia Inhorn, and Fernando ...

This malign industry must not be allowed to influence clinicians’ learning In a troubling development for tobacco control, Medscape, a continuing education website for health professionals, was ...

Hristio Boytchev reveals how an ambitious deal between a leading medical education provider and the tobacco industry collapsed this week The medical education provider Medscape has bowed to pressure ...

NHS England has said it will work with employers to improve rotational training by, among other actions, releasing rota schedules earlier, reducing payroll errors, and reviewing how parking spaces are ...

Oliver and Vaughan outline their concerns about the General Medical Council’s vision for reforming education and training.1 They focused on the areas of change we set out, but ignored the principles ...

Hundreds of bodies “buried deep in the ground and covered with waste” have been recovered at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the UN has reported.1 “Among the ...

Doctors in the first year of foundation training who have yet to be allocated to the jobs they are expected to start on 7 August have said they are “distressed, angry, and fed up.”1 The BMA has said ...

Removing the “reasonable punishment” defence and prohibiting corporal punishment of children can help to reduce family violence, says Andrew Rowland In England and Northern Ireland, we have a key ...