Record breaking outbreaks worldwide have put the virus in the spotlight like never before. Kamala Thiagarajan asks why—and what are we doing to try to stop it? Neelika Malavige knows first hand the ...

The BMA has criticised the framing of a BBC news report that said consultant doctors were being paid as much as £200 000 a year in overtime to tackle the NHS backlog.1 The BBC’s investigation reported ...

A United Nations summit on biodiversity that aimed to halt the collapse of nature has ended largely in disappointment as countries failed to present plans on how to save the natural world or to reach ...

The narrative on universal health coverage should be centred around four core elements: universality, equity, adequate financing, and preparedness in public health emergencies, write Katri Bertram and ...

The health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, has asked the NHS to “look at the case for lowering the screening age on prostate cancer,” particularly for people with a family history of the ...

Two additional cases of clade Ib mpox have been detected in household contacts of the first UK case,1 bringing the total number of confirmed cases to three, health officials have reported. The two ...

Three people were sentenced in relation to drug charges on 25 October after an international police investigation found that the Londoners had conspired to import unregulated drugs from India into the ...

Doctors’ leaders have warned that the newly announced increase in employers’ national insurance contributions could be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” for general practices, forcing some to ...

Objectives To assess trends and differences in child malnutrition by population subgroups among infants aged 6-23 months in ...

A week before the chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget, the Nuffield Trust published analysis showing that the NHS in England was facing £4.8bn worth of unfunded cost ...

A coordinated international response is needed, write Alaha Nasari, Sammer Marzouk, and Samar Al-Hajj Israel’s recent large scale military operations1 in Lebanon have caused a displacement crisis of ...

Gun violence in the US is the leading cause of death among children and teenagers, drives down life expectancy, and cost the economy around $557bn in 2022, says a report from the Commonwealth Fund, a ...