In this open letter, more than 200 leading doctors, professional bodies, and charities urge the chancellor to use the autumn budget to invest in creating a smoke free UK as quickly as possible

Demonising cannabis has kept the drug from patients who might benefit from it, say David Nutt and Lucy Stafford. But Laura Stack and Robin Murray argue that legalisation in other countries has opened people up to more harms

In this open letter, more than 200 leading doctors, professional bodies, and charities urge the chancellor to use the autumn budget to invest in creating a smoke free UK as quickly as possible

Mortality in young people in Denmark is consistently socially patterned across measures of socioeconomic position and causes of deaths including natural and unnatural deaths caused by accidents, suicides, and homicides

Among fathers with type 2 diabetes, this study found no association between paternal metformin use and major congenital anomalies in offspring

WHO has warned that there is a “high risk” of polio spreading in Gaza and beyond, after variant poliovirus type 2 was detected in Gaza’s sewage

Demonising cannabis has kept the drug from patients who might benefit from it, say David Nutt and Lucy Stafford. But Laura Stack and Robin Murray argue that legalisation in other countries has opened people up to more harms

This study shows how to establish a de-escalation therapeutic strategy for patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes

This study shows how to establish a de-escalation therapeutic strategy for patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes