MPs and peers must act urgently to avert potential scandal from drug industry payments and connections to parliamentary interest groups, researchers have said. A new study of pharmaceutical firms’ ...

Boris Johnson’s government repeatedly did “too little, too late” in response to the covid pandemic and could have saved 23 000 lives in England if a lockdown had been imposed a week earlier, the UK ...

Hospes in Latin means both a host and a guest. It’s a Janus word that reflects a reciprocal arrangement between not so much opposites as counterparts. Hospes gives us the word hospitality, which is ...

Doctors have accused ministers of “weaponising antisemitism” to silence healthcare professionals from speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.12 In a letter sent to the Department of Health and ...

New guidance published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggesting vaccines may cause autism has been slammed by medical and autism advocacy groups. A CDC webpage which ...

America feels familiar to a British person—until it doesn’t. Lucinda Hiam writes from the US, observing that nothing has felt more foreign than living in a country where the threat of gun violence is ...

Limited evidence to support a causal association In September 2025, the US president claimed that paracetamol (acetaminophen) use during pregnancy caused autism.1 A linked umbrella review by Sheikh ...

Grace (also known by her married name of Grace Bryden) worked for many years in Glasgow’s pioneering domiciliary family planning service, helping to give women more choice and control in their lives, ...

Donald Trump’s government vowed to fix longstanding problems with the Food and Drug Administration. Almost a year into Trump’s second term, how is the FDA faring? Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee ...

A major UK study to track the long term health of young people attending the NHS’s gender incongruence service has started recruiting participants. The Puberty Suppression and Transitional Healthcare ...

New rules that force general practices in England to accept online queries from patients during core working hours are already risking harm to patients and increasing GPs’ workload and stress, a ...

More strikes by resident doctors could take place, with the BMA already considering further industrial action next month. The union, which called a five day strike between 14 and 19 November,1 said it ...