The biotechnology company Sarepta Therapeutics has decided to suspend entirely one of its treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) just days after it refused a request from the US Food and ...

I’ve always loved trees, and as a teenager I taught myself to identify most of the common species. As I’ve got older my respect for them has grown, and I find it consoling that many of them were ...

Partha Kar, a Royal College of Physicians (RCP) councillor, says that he will appeal the college’s “disproportionate” decision to suspend his registration over what he claims was “whistleblowing.” It ...

Moberly heard advice from professionals on what to do if undermined at work; all those who were consulted advised doctors to seek guidance from a manager, colleague, or employer.1 As resident doctors ...

Cuts to international aid programmes could trigger a rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and cause global annual gross domestic product (GDP) losses of $1.7tn (£1.3tn; €1.5tn) within 25 years, ...

More than half (54%, 458) of black women surveyed had problems with healthcare professionals during their pregnancy, while 28% (237) reported being discriminated against.1 The Black Maternal ...

NHS England’s plans for the upcoming strikes by resident doctors will put patient safety at risk, the BMA has warned. In previous strike action, including the prolonged dispute between resident ...

A GP has been suspended from the UK medical register for nine months after prescribing controlled drugs to friends or family and receiving some of those drugs for his own use. Andrew Foster, who ...

The US Congress has clawed back about $8bn (£5.9bn; €6.8bn) in funding to continue to support PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The agency was originally due to lose funding in ...

A child at Liverpool’s Alder Hey hospital has died of measles.1 The tragic death comes less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the ...

There’s clear evidence that many doctors aren’t valued in the NHS, and their potential as leaders is inadvertently curtailed. The resident doctors’ strike, the postgraduate medical training review, ...

On behalf of the Working in Partnership with Patients and Communities Forum of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, we welcome Vanneste and colleagues’ important study on reporting patient and ...