Robert F Kennedy Jr, announced on 27 March that he would cut 10 000 employees from department agencies as part of government restructuring by Elon Musk’s Department Government Efficiency. Another ...

Another week of cuts and announcements from the Trump administration has continued the storm around health, medicine, and research in the US and globally. Mun-Keat Looi and Owen Dyer report HIV/AIDS ...

What you need to know There has been a worldwide rise in homelessness over the past 10 years.1 On a single night in 2024 roughly 771 480 people in the United States were experiencing homelessness, the ...

There are ways to make workplaces feel more inclusive for neurodivergent colleagues, Abi Rimmer hears Catriona McVey, final year medical student, says, “Neurodivergent colleagues often bring unique ...

A New York State county clerk has refused to enforce penalties filed by the state of Texas against a doctor in New York State who posted medication abortion drugs to a Texan woman.1 The US ...

Medical research has traditionally studied men, with findings extrapolated to women. Project founder Kate Womersley talks to Menaka Fry about her attempts to change this When Susan Cole was pregnant ...

Science is under siege. Political forces are undermining expertise, dismantling research institutions, and replacing evidence based policymaking with ideology. This is a global crisis. The covid-19 ...

A step forward in de-escalating treatment The evolution of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been shaped by the continuous challenge of balancing ...

England’s patient safety commissioner has warned that patients with vision or hearing impairments are at greater risk from medicines and medical devices because their views are not sufficiently ...

St Bartholomew’s medical school had only been accepting female students for eight years when Coral Sharpe (née Knight) began studying in 1955. Sharpe was not an obvious trailblazer, but in her quiet, ...

We must learn from the successes and failures of the covid-19 vaccination programme if we are to prepare for the next pandemic, writes Samantha Vanderslott Vaccination has been so successful in ...

Supporting the healthy development of children requires an approach to smartphone and social media use underpinned by age appropriate design and education, argue Victoria Goodyear and colleagues ...