Doctors in Gaza have been “abandoned by the world” as they continue to struggle to provide basic healthcare amid renewed Israeli airstrikes, a lack of staff and supplies, and under threat of violence ...

Research into the effects of climate change on human health will no longer be funded by the US health department’s research arm, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said a memo distributed to ...

The UK government is facing a fierce backlash over welfare cuts that a new analysis says will push an additional 250 000 people—including 50 000 children—into relative poverty in 2029-30. Under the ...

The treatment of around 800 patients by a now suspended consultant paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is to be examined by a panel of expert clinicians, after an ...

The timeline for the proposed introduction of assisted dying in England and Wales could be pushed back to four years, raising fears among supporters that its introduction may be abandoned altogether.

Since Brexit the UK government has flouted its own guidelines and initiatives by plugging NHS staffing gaps with staff from outside the EU. Sally Howard reports The NHS is relying too much on ...

As paediatricians working in the US, we view the changes being made to our healthcare and education systems, research enterprise, and regulatory agencies1 as truly dystopian. The damage is clear to us ...

Rising cases of tuberculosis (TB) and measles and an intense influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) season were seen in England in 2024-25, reiterating the fact that “we cannot be complacent, ...

In 1983 surgeons across East Africa began to compare notes about a new disease, known colloquially as “slim,” which was ...

The government has been urged to remove the financial barriers to doctors taking on additional work after a BMA survey showed that many consultants and GPs have cut their hours in the past year ...

Cuts to disability benefits will worsen health and the economy The chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, will set out the UK government’s spending plans in her spring statement on 26 March.1 The ...

Bambra and colleagues suggest an approach that links health and skills to tackle health related worklessness.1 But when the health of those who look out for people’s health is at risk, so are the ...