Five infants died of whooping cough in England in the first three months of 2024. As rates of the disease continue to rise, ...

NHS England has set out its latest plans to slash waiting times in urgent and emergency care with an expansion of virtual ...

In March 2021, in response to the covid-19 pandemic, more than 20 world leaders and the director general of the World Health ...

Katharine Lang investigates how SARS-CoV-2 infection can affect the brain, how it might have these effects, and what can be ...

Target to end preventable deaths among under 5s is within reach, UN data show The 2023 report of the United Nations ...

Upholding international humanitarian law and ending the weaponisation of aid and medical supplies is critical to protecting ...

A new analysis of data from Novo Nordisk’s Select trial indicates that semaglutide (marketed as Wegovy) can enable patients ...

Heatwaves are intensifying but gaps in the data mean that the number of people who have died from rising temperatures is ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) has expressed concern about the widening health disparities between rural and urban communities, with death rates around 20% higher for the 46 million Americans ...

Specialist, associate specialist, and specialty (SAS) doctors in England have been offered a new pay deal which would see those on 2021 contracts receive an increase of 9.5% of 19.4% and those on ...

In addition to conventional chemoradiation and targeted cancer therapy, the use of immune based therapies, specifically immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy ...

NHS England (NHSE) published its long awaited and serially delayed long term workforce plan for the NHS.1 In the 10 months since then we’ve seen pay disputes, difficult contract negotiations, strike ...