The BMJ points out the changed trajectory of life expectancy: after generations of improvement, progress on longevity has stalled.1 The situation is even more alarming if one looks at not just ...

On 16 March the health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, made headlines by declaring in an interview that there was an “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions. The comment was made in the ...

More than 4000 doctors face having to pay a tax charge on their pensions as a result of the nationally agreed pension discrimination remedy, data have shown. Various official delays and problems over ...

Dengue has long been endemic in Bangladesh, but the past two years have seen a sinister turn, and numbers may be even worse than official figures suggest. Rahat Touhid reports At the beginning of ...

New testimony gathered by the BMA details instances of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) making incorrect clinical decisions, dangerously prescribing medication, introducing ...

Experts have voiced concerns over the significant presence of industry figures on the UK government’s new Food Strategy Advisory Board, after it emerged that 50% of its membership represented food ...

The Netflix series Adolescence is hard to escape. One of the judges at our South Asia Awards in Delhi last weekend told me that his family were gripped by the drama about a teenage schoolboy in ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research There are so many studies published about vitamin D—about a dozen each day—it’s hard to keep up. One that stands out is a double-blind randomised controlled ...

Khalaf Z, Bush A, Saglani S, et al. Influence of age on clinical characteristics, pharmacological management and exacerbations in children with asthma. Thorax 2024;79:112-119. To read the full NIHR ...

This man in his early 70s presented with a two year history of an itchy rash on his lower limbs. He had initially had a diagnosis of psoriasis and was treated with topical clobetasol propionate.