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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of world’s liver cancers “are preventable” Six in every 10 liver cancers diagnosed worldwide are preventable by reducing risk factors, concluded a “conservative calculation” of cases projected ...

Consider preparation method and replacement food when assessing health risks The potato is a carbohydrate rich tuberous vegetable that traditionally has been used as a staple in many food cultures.

Numbers of general practice appointments in England rose by more than seven million in the past year, thanks largely to other members of the primary care team rather than GPs. Figures from NHS England ...