When trusted professionals speak up, people listen Over the past century, Earth’s average temperature has risen by more than 1.3°C, a clear sign that something is wrong. Ambient temperatures are ...

The maternal death rate in the UK is at its highest for 20 years, with thrombosis and thromboembolism the leading cause of death, according to a major report. The latest MBRRACE-UK report, Saving ...

The UK based drug firm GSK has agreed to pay up to $2.2bn (£1.7bn; €2bn) to settle claims that the heartburn drug ranitidine (previously marketed in the US as Zantac) caused cancer. The deal, ...

Increasing the use of vaccines could help tackle the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by reducing the need for antibiotics by 22% globally—or 2.5 billion defined daily doses—every year ...

This week the inquiry heard further testimony from doctors and patients about their experiences during the pandemic. Matthew Limb and Jacqui Wise report Learning that the first 10 doctors in the UK to ...

Physician associates (PAs) must only see patients in general practice who have been triaged by a GP and only undertake work delegated to them, and agreed with, their named GP supervisor, says new ...

All lead pipes on public land in the US will be replaced by 2037 under a new rule established by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Biden administration has announced. The new rule also ...

Large language models have the potential to enhance equitable access to health information, but their poor performance in some languages could exacerbate the digital divide in healthcare, say Arthur ...

Regulation and monitoring are needed to prevent harmful bias in AI tools Artificial intelligence (AI) could help achieve global health equity by extending efficient and cost effective healthcare to ...

Disparities in access to healthcare in England for some patient groups have been made clear in a large analysis published today by two think tanks. People from the most deprived areas are much more ...

India has eliminated trachoma—one of the world’s leading causes of blindness—60 years after the country’s ministry of health first launched control initiatives, the World Health Organization (WHO) has ...

Climate change is altering the world we live in, and children are particularly affected, write Tobias Alfvén and Zulfi Bhutta This summer, new temperature records were set all around the world, ...