A drug that was approved last year for uterine fibroids is now available for patients of reproductive age who have previously had medical or surgical treatment for endometriosis. In final draft ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr, now the US health secretary, ordered medical journals to “start publishing real science and stop retracting the real science.” Now, after delivering 100 days of global disruption, ...

Ruth Segovia y Mayoral describes her experience of living with immune thrombocytopenia and why she wishes health professionals were able to prescribe rest I have always resisted defining myself by my ...

Pope I, Clark LV, Clark A, et al. Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (COSTED): a multicentre randomised controlled trial. Emergency Medicine Journal 2024;41:276-282. To read the ...

What you need to know Adrenal insufficiency is the inadequate production of the hormone cortisol from the adrenal glands. Global prevalence ranges from 0.4/100 000 (South Korea) to 15-22/100 000 ...

The arterial side of the vascular system becomes stiffer with age and intensive treatment of hypertension in older people might do more harm than good if it leads to falls or cerebral hypoperfusion.

The UK is not prepared to cope with the likely effects of a warming climate, such as escalating deaths and health system disruption, independent advisers have warned the government. In its 2025 report ...

Launer’s role playing exercise—in which he shared the thoughts going through his mind during a difficult consultation—raises issues relevant to the care experienced by many people with rare conditions ...

Risk from doctor fatigue is often misunderstood The Health Services Safety Investigations Body said that fatigue among healthcare staff contributed directly and indirectly to patient harm but was not ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research The scale and impact of modern health care can be mind-boggling. “Approximately 93 million computed tomography (CT) examinations are performed on 62 million ...

Consider routine follow-up, especially after medication has been stopped Gabapentinoids, including gabapentin and pregabalin, are a class of drugs that have anticonvulsant, analgesic, and anxiolytic ...

Associated with reduced vein graft occlusion Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains a primary revascularisation strategy for complex coronary artery disease.1 The long term success of CABG ...