The decision to introduce legislation in the UK to regulate Physicians Associates (PAs) and Anaesthetic Associates (AAs) has ...

The UK government is to press ahead with adding folic acid to flour to try to prevent hundreds of babies each year from being born with neural tube defects. Folic acid deficiency is a leading cause of ...

A Canadian adolescent is in a critical condition in a British Columbia hospital after becoming infected with a new genotype of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The patient, who has not ...

Meaningful progress to mitigate the climate crisis and improve health systems will only be possible with a commitment to equity, justice, and inclusion, say Arthur Ng’etich and colleagues As the 29th ...

On 6 November Donald Trump was re-elected president of the United States after an election campaign characterised by fear, lies, and disinformation. Trump’s campaign featured his insistence that he ...

Citizens want assurance on accountability and control If the NHS is broken, as the UK health secretary, Wes Streeting, says,1 better use of data should be part of the remedy. A recent report by Ara ...

Ann Robinson reviews the latest research Postpartum haemorrhage kills around 70 000 women a year. Since the results of the ...

Some GPs think that patients should have the freedom to choose how they access care, others believe that offering private appointments would lead to a two tier system, further entrenching social ...

A House of Lords committee has called on the government and NHS England to act to reduce preterm births and provide greater support for the parents of babies born before 37 weeks. The Preterm Birth ...

More than 800 million adults around the world now have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, a global analysis has estimated—more than four times the number in 1990. Almost six in 10 adults aged over 30 with ...

Benjamin Goodair and colleagues argue that growth of private provision in adult social care in England has resulted in worse care and should be rolled back Adult social care in England is in crisis.

After all these years, why has patient safety not improved? In late 1999, the US Institute of Medicine’s report “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” galvanized the nascent patient safety ...