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‘No science locked behind paywalls!’
Research funders from France, the UK, the Netherlands and eight other European nations have unveiled a radical open-access initiative that could change the face...
Drink Free Days campaign marks a break from 'futile' nagging
Middle-aged drinkers in the UK will be advised to have more alcohol-free days a week in a bid to cut its related health risks,...
First trials on whether micro-dosing LSD has benefits
Silicon Valley geeks say it sharpens their thinking and enhances creativity. Other people say it lifts the fog of depression. A novel experiment launching...
Nearly a quarter of UK student nurses quit before graduating
Nearly a quarter of student nurses in the UK are dropping out of their degree courses before graduation, The Guardian reports figures show. Of...
FDA approves first generic version of the lifesaving EpiPen
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first generic version of EpiPen, providing new competition that could help drive down the cost...
UK review recommends earlier bowel cancer screening
Bowel cancer screening in England is to start 10 years earlier, at the age of 50, after ministers accepted the findings of a review....
Celebrated empathy expert 'bullied and intimidated' colleagues
Tania Singer, a celebrated neuroscientist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, is known as...
FDA warns against treatments to treat menopause side effects
The use of lasers and other medical devices for vaginal “rejuvenation” treatments and similar cosmetic procedures have been warned against by the US Food...
Top UK GP forced to resign from NHS over 'inflammatory' comments
One of Britain’s most senior GPs was forced to resign from his role as NHS England’s director of primary care, after it was revealed...
Top university cooks exam results to curb entry of women to medicine
Officials at prestigious Tokyo Medical University allegedly tampered with female applicants’ exam results in a bid to reduce the number of women in medicine....
Teen boys in the UK to get HPV vaccination
Boys aged 12 and 13 in England are to be vaccinated against the cancer-causing human papilloma virus (HPV). The Guardian reports that the decision...
UK doctors get go ahead to prescribe cannabis-derived medicines
Doctors in the UK will be able to prescribe cannabis-derived medicine after the government announced a relaxation of laws governing access to the substance,...
FDA issues voluntary recall of generic blood pressure drug
The US Food and Drug Administration has announced a voluntary recall of valsartan. a widely prescribed blood pressure medication made in China, and follows...
High-profile health app under scrutiny after 'serious failures' complaints
An NHS-partnered app that uses artificial intelligence to assess medical symptoms and boasts more than 2.5m users faces regulatory scrutiny after complaints from doctors,...
Novartis hoists the white flag over antibacterial and antiviral research
The fight against life-threatening infections suffered another blow when one of the world’s biggest drug makers waved the white flag. Business Day reports that...
UK orders that mesh implants be stopped immediately
The UK government has accepted the use of vaginal mesh implants to treat complications after childbirth should be stopped immediately to prevent further risk...
Stressed GPs take pole position in crash insurance claims
Last year in the UK, general practitioners made the most insurance claims for motor vehicle collisions in which they were at fault of any...
UK patients to be refused 17 'futile' operations as NHS cuts bite
Hundreds of thousands of National Health Service (NHS) patients in the UK will be refused operations judged futile as part of cost-cutting measures in...
Moonlighting medics earning millions from the UK's NHS
The UK National Health Service (NHS) is paying moonlighting medics up to five times as much as the prime minister to plug gaps in...
FDA's first approval of a drug derived from cannabis
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time approved a drug directly derived from cannabis, Epidiolex, developed by the British GW...
UK legislation to protect medical staff from escalating assaults
UK peers have called for the quick passing of new legislation to protect NHS staff from growing levels of “unacceptable” and “scandalous” assaults. People Management...
UK opens its doors to foreign doctors and nurses
Thousands more foreign medical professionals will be able to work in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) after the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, confirmed...
UK report on over 450 suspicious deaths released
More than 450 patients died after being given powerful painkillers inappropriately at Gosport War Memorial Hospital, BBC News reports that an inquiry has found....
40% of GPs in UK intend to quit in next 5 years – survey
Two out of every five GPs in the UK intend to quit within the next five years – the largest proportion on record, The...
Obesity now linked to 12 different forms of cancer
Obesity is linked to as many as 12 different forms of cancer, according to a new report from the World Cancer Research Fund which...
UK review to eliminate gender pay gap in medicine
A review has been launched in the UK to eliminate the gender pay gap in medicine, which sees male doctors getting paid over £10,000...
Australia faces human rights crisis over refugees — Amnesty International
The Australian government is trying to walk away from the human rights crisis it created on Manus Island, winding back health services while refugees...
UK spending billions to cope with 40,000 nursing staff shortage
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is spending almost £1.5bn a year on temporary nursing staff to cope with shortages, The Guardian reports research...
The Lancet spears UNAIDS' head with resignation call
The editor-in-chief of the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, has joined calls for UNAIDS executive director, Michel Sidibé to be suspended after his controversial...
UK health services in breast cancer screening scandal
More than 8,000 calls have been made to a UK helpline since it was revealed that 450,000 women were not invited to routine breast...
MD says Trump dictated letter about his 'astonishingly excellent' health
A 2015 doctor’s note describing Donald Trump’s health as “astonishingly excellent” was dictated, it turns out, by Trump himself. The Guardian reports that this...
US government targets drugmaker 'shenanigans' over generics
Trump administration officials, seeking ways to lower drug costs, are targeting pharmaceutical companies that refuse to provide samples of their products to generic drug...
EMS workers in the UK told to better identify mortality risk
Hospitals and ambulance services in the UK have been told to get better at identifying patients at risk of dying after 100 people died...
Mesh surgery exposed UK women to 'unacceptable risk'
Women have been exposed to unacceptable risks through the use of vaginal mesh surgery, the UK government has acknowledged for the first time, as...
SA civil society groups want UNAIDS director to resign
The director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, is facing calls from South African civil society groups to resign over his handling of a recent sexual...
Senior NHS paramedics could soon be able to prescribe drugs
Hundreds of the UK National Health Service’s (NHS’s) most senior paramedics will soon be able to give drugs to sick patients thanks to a...
NHS trials one-stop cancer diagnosis shops
‘One-stop shops’ for cancer diagnoses are being trialled by the UK's National Health Service (NHS), says a Daily Mail report. In a pilot scheme,...
UK Public Accounts Committee finds NHS in a 'perilous state'
A hard-hitting report by the UK’s Public Accounts Committee has said that the health service is in a 'perilous state' despite getting an extra...
NHS stops funding for major UK homeopathy centre
A major taxpayer-funded centre for homeopathic, herbal and alternative medicines will no longer be providing these remedies on the UK’s National Health Service (NHS)...
Canadian doctors protest against pay increases
Nearly 800 doctors and medical residents in the Canadian province of Quebec have signed a letter protesting against plans to raise their pay, arguing...