A pay review body recommendation that UK governments consider a separate pay framework for locally employed doctors should ...

A pregnant woman in the US who has been declared brain dead is being kept on life support because of worries over abortion ...

Health leaders have given a lukewarm welcome to news that the NHS estate in England is to receive a £750m funding boost in ...

Health officials are investigating rising numbers of serious yeast infections in England in the past year, including cases ...

Argentina will leave the World Health Organization, President Javier Milei has confirmed, as he announced a series of radical ...

Teenage pregnancies in Brazil have been stubbornly high for decades, but a range of efforts to tackle this inequality are ...

Urgent legislative action is needed to protect minors Areca nut, also known as betel nut, is the fibrous seed of the Areca ...

Parents’ or other carers’ concerns may be a better indicator that a child in hospital is deteriorating than certain ...

Consumption of alcoholic drinks may raise the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a large international study.

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 has published the first major report under his “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) ...

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 ...