The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published draft guidance aimed at improving the performance of pulse oximeters across all skin colours, following research suggesting the medical devices ...

Ministers have announced an independent commission on adult social care in England, to inform the creation of a national care service. Elisabeth Mahase looks at what we know The government’s ...

Eco-anxiety” is growing worldwide, especially among young people.1 Considerable anxiety about the climate crisis is rational, particularly for young people, for whom even 2100 is a tangible date. Deep ...

One of England’s largest hospital trusts has ordered an independent review of its international medical training programmes because of concerns, first highlighted in The BMJ , that overseas doctors ...

The 10 winners of the 2024 Shkreli awards, given annually to the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in US healthcare, have been announced by the Lown Institute, a non-profit US think tank.

I agree with Wolf’s concerns about transfusion in sickle cell disease.12 In developed countries, where the blood donor pool is predominantly white and lacking the Ro antigen, transfusion for sickle ...