Practecal, a phase 2b-3 randomised controlled trial which identified a new treatment regimen for drug resistant tuberculosis (TB), cost €33.9m (£28.95n; $38.54m), with an average cost of €61 460 per ...

Shortages of pharmaceutical products have been with us for many years. The earliest example of which I am aware dates back to 1942. Currently over 100 products are in shortage, including hormone ...

The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) has become the latest and most high profile journal to receive a letter from Edward Martin Jr, a Republican activist who was appointed US attorney for ...

Exacerbated competition ratios in postgraduate medical training need to be tackled urgently.123 The UK doesn’t have enough jobs for doctors despite being one of the countries with the lowest ...

Sneddon and Mafi accurately reflect the despair of many resident doctors at the current state of specialty training recruitment.1 As a foundation year 4 doctor, soon to be year 5, I’m experiencing one ...

The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)—the US’s largest and longest study of women’s health—will continue after President Donald Trump’s administration abruptly changed course, having announced that it ...

US cuts to international aid are coming at the worst possible time in the fight against malaria, in which Africa faces its worst challenge in a quarter century. Frank Burkybile reports on a community ...

Following a number of suicides among medical staff in public hospitals, three French government ministers are being taken to court accused of manslaughter, institutional moral harassment, and other ...

Brian was born in Southport and his earliest ambition was to become a doctor. At the age of 17 he began studying at Liverpool University medical school, graduating in 1956. He went on to complete ...

Ruthie Jeanneret and Stevie Martin consider how requirements for prospective approval affect access to assisted dying Access to assisted dying is being considered in several countries, and the Isle of ...

China’s success in eliminating malaria is a welcome health story for a troubled world (doi:10.1136/bmj.r758).1 Once burdened with an estimated 30 million cases a year in the 1940s, the country reached ...

Not long ago—and you can’t even believe these numbers—one in 10 000 children have autism . . . And now it’s one in 36. There’s something wrong,” Donald Trump told the US Congress on 4 March. Since he ...