China’s central government has intervened after hundreds of cases of lead poisoning at a private nursery in the country’s impoverished north west, days after local officials blamed industrial paint ...

Gillian Leng has acknowledged that her “pragmatic” solution to the PA matter “won’t be universally popular.” Jacqui Wise summarises the reactions from medical leaders The BMA has criticised Gillian ...

A new once daily triple drug treatment for cystic fibrosis is set to be “immediately funded” by NHS England following recommendation from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).1 ...

The “appalling” sexual abuse of dead bodies in NHS hospital mortuaries by a necrophiliac killer could happen again unless the sector is regulated by law, an independent inquiry has concluded.1 David ...

A doctor who crossed double white lines to overtake a heavy goods vehicle and killed a motorcyclist travelling in the opposing lane has been jailed for three years for causing death by dangerous ...

Patients and clinicians deserve more rigorous reporting from the BMJ.

Science reported that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) director, Jay Bhattacharya, dismissed all members of the agency’s top external advisory body, the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) ...

Vickers and colleagues’ recommendation to implement electronic blood management systems for transfusion safety is timely.1 Most reports made to the UK haemovigilance scheme, Serious Hazards of ...