Risk assessment must be proportionate to evidence. If ten suspected cases over three years warrant national alarm, surely the many thousands of children who each year suffer preventable, ...

Social media influencers are a popular source of health information to millions of people—and they are increasingly a more available and trusted source of help and advice than doctors. From global ...

Behind the UK’s “landmark” pharma deal with the US lies a costly surrender, with higher drug prices, weaker safeguards, and vague promises of investment, write Els Torreele and Martin McKee When the ...

Parents will be allowed to buy infant formula from UK supermarkets using loyalty points and vouchers in a bid to make it more affordable. Current regulations, which are designed to encourage ...

The UK government’s 10 year plan commits to targeting childhood obesity through a series of measures that seemingly ignores ultraprocessed foods (UPFs).12 Without promoting literacy and understanding ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Social media platforms are awash with influencers promoting cures for all ills. They often make claims that would breach advertising rules—particularly in the ...

Committee rejects routine screening The UK National Screening Committee advised against routine screening for prostate cancer with the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test, arguing that the ...

Improving health discourse needs attention to information environments where trust can grow. Social media influencers have entered the healthcare conversation. Raffael Heiss and colleagues’ analysis ...

Raffael Heiss and colleagues argue that influencers’ medical advice is often shaped by multiple biases and suggest how to reduce the associated risks Social media influencers have become powerful in a ...

Robertson has seen a “big movement” of influencers on social media encouraging people to come off their medicines for conditions such as ulcerative colitis—suggesting, for instance, that it can be ...

A system allowing drugs to be approved in the UK by other “trusted” regulators such as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is sparking concern among experts. They say the strategy risks lowering ...

First, policy requires evidence, not emotion, yet the article relies on the personal tragedy of a mother whose daughter was killed in a school shooting. (1) The year 2022 was the deadliest on record ...