This week a United Nations motion demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza was vetoed by one country—the US.1 The result: more death and destruction. Donald Trump’s administration began by cutting ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to conduct reviews into the abortion drug mifepristone, infant formula, and talc, while health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr expressed support for broader ...

At a conference in Hong Kong last year almost every presentation enthused about the potential of artificial intelligence. The conference wasn’t even about AI, the great global hope to solve every ...

Six well known senior clinicians have urged resident doctors to reject a call from the BMA for strike action over pay, arguing that such action would be futile and damaging. A letter signed by Clare ...

Improves fibrosis and steatohepatitis Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) encompasses a broad clinical spectrum, ranging from simple steatosis to metabolic ...

Growing numbers of US physicians are joining unions, seeing them as a way to regain autonomy in the face of the corporatisation of healthcare. Ella Hubbard reports “They somehow found a way to upset ...

Health officials are investigating rising numbers of serious yeast infections in England in the past year, including cases ...

A new strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that seems better adapted to infect people is fuelling a fresh wave of covid-19 sweeping through Asia and the Western Pacific region and is increasingly showing up ...

A pregnant woman in the US who has been declared brain dead is being kept on life support because of worries over abortion ...

People in the UK and more likely to get cancer than 50 years ago but less likely to die from it, Cancer Research UK says.1 ...

Overstocking of a medicinal product is defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as “Excess stocks of products, which exceed current demand at a given time.” Overstocking of a product can lead to ...

Teenage pregnancies in Brazil have been stubbornly high for decades, but a range of efforts to tackle this inequality are ...