A new report has catalogued hundreds of alleged human rights abuses in US immigration detention centres, including physical ...

The NHS hospital where the neonatal nurse Lucy Letby worked has been censured by England’s healthcare regulator over failings ...

Nearly 8000 people in southern China have fallen ill with chikungunya since mid-June, officials have said, although the ...

World Athletics has said that all athletes wishing to compete in the female category will have to take an SRY gene test, but ...

A former consultant colorectal surgeon has been struck off the UK medical register for concocting multiple fake medical ...

GPs should report all incorrect or misleading results from artificial intelligence (AI) tools used in clinical practice, the UK medicine regulator has urged. The Medicines and Healthcare Products ...

As the fourth high level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) approaches, Bai Li and colleagues warn that failing to tackle obesity will set back progress ...

NHS 111’s reliance on an “ineffective” algorithm for potential sepsis cases could be putting patients in danger, experts have warned after the death of a baby. On 26 June 2024 the health of 1 month ...

As a foundation year 2 (F2) doctor, I find the reported figure—only a quarter of doctors feeling satisfied with their career progression, and a third planning to leave the UK—entirely consistent with ...

This patient in his late teens presented with a one week history of a widespread painful rash, accompanied by fever and fatigue. Two weeks previously he had started oral upadacitinib—a Janus kinase ...

Prevention is better than cure, as the saying goes. Some have argued that we should ban the word “prevention” and instead have a wider definition of health, less centred on the absence of sickness ...

Babies who survived serious illness soon after birth continue to have a high mortality risk into adolescence, according to a longitudinal study from Sweden ( JAMA Pediatr ...