Doctors will be able to prescribe a new treatment for people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), after the UK medicines watchdog approved guselkumab (Tremfya) for use on the NHS. The National ...

Incentives will only have a real impact if they are adaptable to the needs of patients and healthcare teams, write Margarida Gil Conde and Ivone Gonçalves Gaspar Recent publication of the NHS’s 10 ...

More than 100 international doctors and health workers who have volunteered in Gaza have signed an open letter urging the global community to take action to protect civilians and healthcare workers ...

Doctors working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Sudan have treated more than 2300 cholera patients in the past week and have seen 40 people die from the infection. Sudan, which has been ...

The recent drop in the NHS waiting list hailed by ministers as a sign of progress in tackling the treatment backlog has given a “misleading” impression of the service’s ability to meet demand, a ...

Ken was born in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, as a second son. His elder brother Roger had died at birth two years earlier, but his existence was acknowledged right throughout Ken’s life and influenced ...

This month, 7000 new resident doctors have started their foundation training in the NHS. It is not uncommon for a resident doctor to wait 20 minutes for a ward computer to boot up, only to spend the ...

Julian graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, in 1958 and completed his medical training at the Middlesex Hospital, London, before settling on Merseyside, taking a consultant surgeon post at ...

Fred Marriott was born in Blackpool in 1929. After a scholarship to Arnold School he studied medicine at Edinburgh University. These were the post-war years, and he cycled between Blackpool and ...

Empowering choice in the pharmacological management of type 2 diabetes One in nine people worldwide lives with diabetes, with 90% affected by type 2 diabetes.1 Despite ongoing advances in therapy and ...

The recent five day strike action by resident doctors had less impact on services than previous action, and staff absence was lower, NHS England has said. Data released by NHS England on 14 August ...

The UK saw a substantial increase in cases of chikungunya virus in the first half of 2025, latest figures show. Data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) showed 73 reported cases of the mosquito ...