The current wave of measles cases in the US provides an opportunity to see what the disease does to the unvaccinated, the new head of the government’s vaccine advisory group says. In a wide ranging ...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will share details of its Palestinian staff with Israel in order to keep working in Gaza and the West Bank, the charity has said. Despite previously refusing to share ...
Palestinians have described being raped, beaten, and attacked by dogs at the hands of prison staff in a graphic new report by Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem.1 The Israel Prison Service ...
The UK has lost its measles elimination certification after the disease circulated continuously for more than a year. Outbreaks began in late 2023 and intensified through 2024, with a total of 2911 ...
US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain illegal immigrants. The revelation comes as the US’s ...
Trust has always been central to healthcare and is especially important in the relationship between clinicians and patients. But trust is not automatic. It is shaped by the actions and decisions, ...
NHS England is to lower the detection threshold for a home screening kit to trigger bowel cancer screening from next month in a move it says will lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment for thousands ...
Public health officials in Sheffield have successfully blocked plans for a new McDonald’s drive-through restaurant after ...
Colombia’s bungled reforms show why healthcare systems must be shielded from politics. Luke Taylor reports It started with delays. Patients queued for hours outside pharmacies from dawn and routine ...
The growing distinction between service and training erodes trainees’ sense of meaning and enjoyment of work Like the NHS itself, postgraduate medical education in England seems to be in a perpetual ...
The collapse of global ecosystems poses a high risk to the UK’s national security and prosperity, government intelligence leaders have warned. A new report, Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem ...
A spate of recalls of infant formula over fears that batches may have been contaminated with the toxin cereulide has led experts to call for tighter safety checks in the industry. Over the weekend the ...