A major World Health Organization hub that provides surveillance of polio and other diseases in India is set to close. Doctors working for WHO’s National Public Health Support Network (NPSN) say that ...

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said during a podcast interview that the Trump administration will stop government scientists from publishing their research in major medical journals “unless ...

The retired French surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing 299 patients, most of them minors, in hospitals in western France from 1989 to 2014. The ...

Health services are struggling to maintain progress made over decades in reducing the incidence of preventable illnesses. Cases of gonorrhoea are increasing, even though condoms are effective at ...

The rapid expansion of physician associates (PAs) and other medical associate professional roles has prompted renewed debate about what constitutes adequate supervision for NHS clinical staff.

This woman in her early 30s with an 11 year history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) experienced a sudden disease flare-up with symptoms of SLE encephalopathy. She was treated with ...

When Michael Modell was at University College London (UCL) in the 1950s, the time that students spent in the community was generally limited to a half day when they were bussed between a general ...

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has published the first major report under his “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) initiative, ambitiously claiming, “During this administration, we will begin ...

In a trial in hospitals in Finland, 90 patients with recurring or complicated diverticulitis were randomised either to elective sigmoid resection or to conservative treatment ( JAMA Surg ...

Most of the population in Kenya’s capital live in informal settlements, which emergency services are increasingly struggling to reach. Frank Burkybile reports On the night of 16 January 2023, a ...

GPs will help find infected patients in England New patients registering at general practices in England will be asked whether they had a blood transfusion before 1996, as part of a drive to find ...

It is a frenzied time for UK health policy. NHS England is set to be abolished, amid an emerging 10 year plan, and every UK country faces difficult financial situations. This is set against two ...