GPs should report all incorrect or misleading results from artificial intelligence (AI) tools used in clinical practice, the UK medicine regulator has urged. The Medicines and Healthcare Products ...

As the fourth high level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) approaches, Bai Li and colleagues warn that failing to tackle obesity will set back progress ...

NHS 111’s reliance on an “ineffective” algorithm for potential sepsis cases could be putting patients in danger, experts have warned after the death of a baby. On 26 June 2024 the health of 1 month ...

One third of doctors are looking to leave the UK medical profession, and nearly half of those are taking serious steps towards leaving, a report has found. The General Medical Council’s (GMC) ...

This patient in his late teens presented with a one week history of a widespread painful rash, accompanied by fever and fatigue. Two weeks previously he had started oral upadacitinib—a Janus kinase ...

Ministers have vowed to “crack down on cowboy cosmetic procedures,” after a rise in unqualified and rogue operators left people “maimed, injured and in need of urgent NHS care.” Under the new rules, ...

Babies who survived serious illness soon after birth continue to have a high mortality risk into adolescence, according to a longitudinal study from Sweden ( JAMA Pediatr ...

Prevention is better than cure, as the saying goes. Some have argued that we should ban the word “prevention” and instead have a wider definition of health, less centred on the absence of sickness ...

On 25 June 1951, 9 year old Kenneth Calman’s 6 year old brother Norman was peering from the window of their family’s two bedroom council flat in Glasgow, watching for their 41 year old father to come ...

Melatonin, the hormone that regulates sleep-wake cycles, is increasingly used as a sleep aid for children. But does it work, and is it safe? Katharine Lang reports “The use of melatonin in typically ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Ondansetron is often given to vomiting children in emergency departments. But does giving parents or caregivers a supply of the anti-emetic at discharge from ...

Ray McMahon often lived up to the stereotype of the affable Irishman: he was a friendly, relaxed man who enjoyed a party and might knock out a song at the end of a convivial evening. But underneath ...