Patients coming off weight loss jabs need support and advice for at least a year to ensure lasting benefit from the drugs, the UK’s medicine watchdog has said. An estimated four in five patients who ...

Some 1900 physician associates (PAs) have been protected from being “unfairly dismissed” from their roles after their union hit back against a review of PA and anaesthesia associate (AA) professions ...

People lost twice as much weight when eating a minimally processed diet as with an ultraprocessed diet, even when eating nutritionally matched foods, a study published in Nature Medicine has reported.

Traditionally, the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease has been based on informant interviews and clinical assessments of memory, cognition, behaviour, and mood. To increase diagnostic confidence, ...

Achieving behaviour change through tailored recommendations Skin cancer continues to be a substantial and increasing public health concern in many countries. The global incidence of melanoma and the ...

The insights and expertise of engaged and knowledgeable patients are powerful tools to improve patient care and experiences, write Sara Riggare and Charlotte Blease Healthcare is evolving and patients ...

The NHS and social care have been able to fill many vacancies in recent years by relying on immigration—with more than two thirds of doctors, and almost half of nurses, joining their registers having ...

Intuition is the name we give to unconscious processes that can produce the right answer, even when we don’t know why. A gut feeling that something is wrong may be the detection of subtle yet ...

Challenges persist despite promising advance In January 2025, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved the use of the gene editing therapy exagamglogene autotemcel ...

Justin was born in Cardiff in 1923 and educated at Cardiff High School. He was inspired from an early age to pursue a medical career and won a scholarship to study medicine at Westminster Hospital ...

Geoffrey Robb was a distinguished physician, educator, mentor, and philanthropist. He was educated at Epsom College and Bristol University, and qualified as a doctor in 1961. He later trained in ...

Glasgow GP Muhammad Kausar wrote poetry as a way of coming to terms with his life as a migrant. On the one hand, he considered himself fortunate to have been able to build a life and a career far from ...