Increased relative risk of stroke and myocardial infarction, but absolute risk is low Approximately 80% of women worldwide have used hormonal contraception at some point in their lives.1 This high ...

All alcoholic beverages should carry prominent health warning labels to highlight the heightened risk of cancer from drinking, the World Health Organization has advised. A report from WHO Europe1 ...

Improved cancer outcomes are the real target, argue Pat Price and Mark Lawler A good news story about cancer was released at the start of this year by NHS England.1 Over the period between September ...

I welcome Martin and colleagues’ thought provoking reflections on the role of general practice in delivering primary prevention for asymptomatic people.1 Illich’s concepts of clinical and social ...

Objective To evaluate the association between contemporary hormonal contraceptive use and the risk of incident ischaemic stroke and myocardial infarction. Design Real-world, nationwide, prospective ...

Legal representatives of the BMA and the General Medical Council have faced off in the High Court over the appropriate language that should be used when describing physician associates (PAs) and ...

On 30 January 2024, the General Medical Council’s guidance on doctors’ use of social media came into effect. At paragraph 14 it reads: “You must not use social media to abuse, discriminate against, ...

New parents should be offered only infant formula products with plain standardised packaging while in hospital, to avoid being led into subsequent costly brand loyalty, the UK’s competition regulator ...

Doctors in training in the UK have been made to feel like a “number on a spreadsheet being shoved around,” in a fragmented and “incredibly destructive” system, the BMA’s chair of council, Philip ...

Marie Louise (May) was born in Birkenhead, Liverpool, into a medical family. She was educated at Saint Helen and Saint Katherine school in Oxfordshire. Before entry to medical school, she experienced ...

1 Department of Applied Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK 2 National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), ...