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How patients are using AI

November 19, 2024

Solidarity kitchens: how pandemic food assistance developed to offer much more

November 18, 2024

What are countries doing to tackle worsening drug shortages?

November 15, 2024

Should GPs be allowed to offer private services to their patients?

November 14, 2024

Abortion dominant, but health sidelined: the road to Trump’s win

November 11, 2024

The rapid rise of the UK’s cancer vaccine trials

November 7, 2024

How climate change made 2024 the deadliest year of dengue

November 6, 2024

Young Pakistanis are moving away from cousin marriage owing to the risk of genetic disorders

November 5, 2024

Assisted dying laws around the world

October 30, 2024

Conscientious objection: will doctors be able to opt out of assisted dying?

October 30, 2024

Dispute arises over World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s involvement in WHO’s trans health guideline

October 30, 2024

What is it like for doctors working under assisted dying laws?

October 30, 2024

Mpox risk to Europe “low” says EU official, but virus and bird flu need monitoring

October 24, 2024

Pharma pours millions into the NHS for non-research work—but we don’t know what the money is being spent on

October 23, 2024

A UK university is helping to train Chinese GPs. This is why

October 21, 2024

Are covid-19 tests still working?

October 17, 2024

What happened after Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital was hit in a missile attack

October 15, 2024

What’s it like to be a patient as a doctor?

October 11, 2024

Finland’s new physician role connects human and climate health

October 8, 2024

Lebanon: Israeli attack endangers a healthcare system reliant on Hezbollah

October 4, 2024

How covid, flu, and other seasonal vaccine programmes are changing

October 4, 2024

Lucy Letby case: what happens now?

October 3, 2024

From one neurologist to one unit: turning the tide against stroke in Malawi

September 30, 2024

The physician associates becoming doctors

September 26, 2024

Preventing future deaths: what have we learnt from reports into preventable fatalities?

September 25, 2024

Donanemab: Conflicts of interest found in FDA committee that approved new Alzheimer’s drug

September 25, 2024

Are India’s regulatory gaps leaving patients with substandard mental health counsellors?

September 20, 2024

Doctor suicide: “All I could see were tasks mounting and people constantly knocking on my door”

September 17, 2024

Wellcome’s new head on the future of clinical research funding

September 16, 2024

UK government’s nutrition advisers are paid by world’s largest food companies, BMJ analysis reveals

September 11, 2024

Lightning strikes the health of low income workers in India

September 10, 2024

Will we ever know where covid-19 came from?

September 9, 2024

Jonathan Finnoff on being a doctor at the Olympic and Paralympic Games

September 5, 2024

Bankrupt local authorities heap pressure on primary care, say GPs

September 5, 2024

Dementia: Africa’s unique opportunity for prevention amid rising cases

September 2, 2024

The health of a leader—and when it has been questioned

August 29, 2024

Eating disorders remain neglected despite sharp rise in Europe

August 28, 2024

Donna Ockenden: Money to improve maternity care? It’s being spent on compensation

August 27, 2024

Medical training at breaking point: will an increase in learners push the system over the edge?

August 21, 2024

How do drugs such as Ozempic work for weight loss . . . and everything else?

August 19, 2024

Rising heatwaves are intensifying an anaemia crisis among India’s women

August 19, 2024

How India’s relationship with the sugar industry turned sour

August 15, 2024

GP leader: “If general practice is the bedrock of the NHS, then the NHS is collapsing”

August 14, 2024

Portugal’s primary care crisis as GPs depart

August 12, 2024

“Things cannot remain as they are”—top obstetrician on workforce morale

August 7, 2024

Galleri promises to detect multiple cancers—but new evidence casts doubt

August 7, 2024

India’s billion dollar pharma industry has a waste problem

August 5, 2024

Manipur’s mental health crisis, a year after violence

August 2, 2024

Polish abortion reform stalls after decriminalisation vote fails

July 31, 2024

The state of global mpox in 2024: new variants, rising outbreaks in Africa, and vaccine trials just starting

July 30, 2024

Cord blood banking: Experts raise concern over claims made for stem cell applications

July 24, 2024

Latin America is catching up on HPV vaccination and screening

July 23, 2024

South Africa’s new national health insurance scheme is controversial

July 22, 2024

Deepfakes and doctors: How people are being fooled by social media scams

July 17, 2024

Why India is failing to track heatstroke fatalities properly

July 17, 2024

Prison healthcare: overcrowding, understaffing, a drug epidemic, and an ageing population in an unfit Victorian estate

July 16, 2024

Patients’ access to medical records around the world

July 11, 2024

More medical journals must work in partnership with patients and the public

July 11, 2024

Patient safety commissioner: “A relentless focus on NHS finance and productivity is failing patient safety”

July 10, 2024

The patients bringing lived experience to research teams

July 3, 2024

Revolving door: You are free to influence us “behind the scenes,” FDA tells staff leaving for industry jobs

July 1, 2024

HPV: Cameroon fights back against one of the world’s lowest vaccination rates

July 1, 2024

Unpicking the general election manifestos on health and care

June 26, 2024

Who are the doctors standing as MPs in the UK general election?

June 25, 2024

How Paris is preparing for the health threats of the Olympic Games

June 25, 2024

NHS mental health services failing Muslims, researchers say

June 20, 2024

Homelessness in primary care—a day with an emerging GP specialism

June 19, 2024

Vaccine shortages worsen the deadliest cholera outbreaks in years

June 18, 2024

Why are so many Canadians dying?

June 13, 2024

How an opioid giant deployed a playbook for moulding doctors’ minds

June 10, 2024

South Africa’s vaping tax—a bold move for public health?

June 10, 2024

Taking women’s pain seriously: The surgeon who spoke out about vaginal mesh

June 6, 2024

Infected blood: an appalling medical tragedy

June 5, 2024

Tobacco funded research: how even journals with bans find it hard to stem the tide of publications

May 30, 2024

Medical tourism facilitators walk a tightrope between ethics and business

May 30, 2024

Does platelet rich plasma (PRP) treatment really work?

May 29, 2024

Gender medicine in the US: how the Cass review failed to land

May 23, 2024

The untold health toll of voting

May 23, 2024

Pregnancy associated osteoporosis: NHS is “failing women”

May 22, 2024

“Excited delirium”: can the world lose this controversial term, which is accused of covering up deaths in police custody?

May 15, 2024

What do we know about covid-19’s effects on the brain?

May 15, 2024

A lack of quality statistics is hiding the real heatwave death toll

May 14, 2024

Revolving doors: board memberships, hedge funds, and the FDA chiefs responsible for regulating industry

May 8, 2024

“I’m not asking to be let off”—suspended climate activist GP Sarah Benn continues to stand her ground

May 8, 2024

Workforce and winter under Labour: Wes Streeting on his plan for the NHS

May 8, 2024

Why WHO changed the definition of “airborne transmission” in the wake of the pandemic

May 7, 2024

What do we know about covid-19’s effects on the gut?

May 1, 2024

Disability community feels ignored in Canada’s assisted dying expansion

April 29, 2024

Medscape caves in on courses funded by tobacco giant Philip Morris, while medics fear global push into medical education

April 26, 2024

Big alcohol: Universities and schools urged to throw out industry-funded public health advice

April 24, 2024

Argentina’s healthcare is crumbling under its worst ever dengue epidemic and Milei’s presidency

April 23, 2024

Health under the spotlight in India’s 2024 election

April 18, 2024

Can a worker cooperative model of social care improve the patient experience and reduce pressure on GPs?

April 18, 2024

Child health: UK must regain “lost ground,” Kingdon urges

April 17, 2024

Closing the gender health gap: a £39bn boost to the economy, as well as lives

April 17, 2024

Haytox: what is the evidence for a Botox spray for hay fever?

April 12, 2024

Barbados is in the grip of a diabetic foot amputation crisis

April 11, 2024

“Medication is binary, but gender expressions are often not”—the Hilary Cass interview

April 9, 2024

Tanzania pins its hopes on new universal health insurance law

April 4, 2024

After years of decline, Brazil sees vaccination coverage rise in 2023

April 2, 2024
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