The Association for Palliative Medicine continues to misinform on palliative medicine doctors’ stance on assisted dying, say Sam H Ahmedzai, Samuel Fingas, and three anonymous colleagues Five years ...

WHO says that it adheres to standard protocol for its transgender health guideline, but the process has been criticised for lacking transparency and an association with WPATH—an organisation under ...

Doctors and patients in different countries where a form of voluntary assisted dying law is in place tell The BMJ about their experiences Victoria was the first Australian state to enact a voluntary ...

As the Royal College of Nursing passes a motion in support of legalised assisted dying, healthcare professionals must be able to express their views openly, writes Clare Barber In 2016 I took a leap ...

International experience should inform implementation and regulation The UK parliament is due to debate MP Kim Leadbeater’s bill on medically assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and ...

Kim Leadbeater’s private member’s bill—the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill—is currently making its way through the House of Commons, with a second reading scheduled for 29 November.1 We know ...

The potential for a new assisted dying law has pushed a medically divisive issue back up the news agenda, reports Erin Dean On 15 October the backbench Labour MP Kim Leadbeater introduced the ...

A surge in cases of tuberculosis means that it has surpassed covid-19 to be the world’s number one infectious killer disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. About 8.2 million people had ...

Shortages of a radioactive isotope required for diagnostic imaging and procedures, as well as some surgeries, have led to patients facing appointment cancellations throughout the UK, the Royal College ...

Tackling the underlying drivers of healthcare costs in the US is both technically and politically difficult, writes Meredith B Rosenthal Unlike in previous US presidential elections, healthcare—aside ...

Doctors felt overwhelmed, frightened, undervalued, and disposable during the covid pandemic, the BMA’s chair of council has told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. Appearing before the inquiry on 28 October, ...

The NHS in England will get an additional £1.5bn for new surgical hubs and scanners, and another £70m for new radiotherapy ...