Hundreds of BMA staff have voted to strike over pay erosion, with the first walkout planned for the end of March. GMB, the ...

Five further cases of meningitis have been identified in the outbreak in Kent that has left two young people dead. The UK ...

Terminally ill adults in Scotland will not be given the right to end their lives, after politicians stepped back from ...

Hospices in England are facing a growing financial crisis and will be forced to cut vital palliative and end-of-life care ...

Yamey and Shaffer rightly warn that, when senior physicians appear beside President Trump and secretary of health and human ...

More than 400 people have been killed in an airstrike on a hospital in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, which left “hundreds of ...

Ian was born in Glasgow and attended Shawlands Academy during the second world war. He was dux of the school and won a ...

A fundamental shift in clinical trial design to include pregnant and breastfeeding women is needed to make up for the ...

A US federal judge has blocked the US health secretary’s controversial efforts to reform national vaccine policy for children ...

A new national taskforce has been set up by the government to help improve the quality of NHS maternity and neonatal care in ...

Elspeth Davies describes how living with an elevated risk of cancer damaged her relationship with her body, and how she ...

Joyce Alexander (née Garven) was born in 1935 to Scottish medical missionary parents in Manchuria, northern China, which at ...