Active surveillance using routine health data can improve patient safety The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires manufacturers of medical devices, such as ventilators and defibrillators, to ...

Objective To describe the extent of late adverse event reporting by manufacturers to the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Manufacturer And User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database as ...

A gambling company has lost its appeal to open an arcade in Sheffield city centre after the director of public health successfully argued that gambling harms are increased when premises are located in ...

To revive clinical research in the UK we need to streamline systems and dismantle bureaucracy, writes Masud Husain Clinical research in the UK is now at a critical point. What used to be a shining ...

Elections are under way for a new RCP president. But what does the college want in its new leader, Adele Waters asks, and, perhaps more importantly, what does it need? Since last year the Royal ...

As a fifth of adults in the UK have diabetes or pre-diabetes, the politics of physical activity policy must be tackled, argue Karen Milton and colleagues Recent data show that one in five adults in ...

A clinical trial of puberty blockers for managing children and adolescents with gender incongruence, announced in February,1 still awaits regulatory and ethical approval, amid warnings by clinicians ...

The inherently uncertain trajectories of terminal illnesses pose challenges for clinicians The private member’s bill on assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales is now in ...