Growing evidence shows how climate change is negatively affecting children’s health and wellbeing throughout the life course. Children who were aged 10 or younger in 2020 will live in a much hotter ...

The Italian government has moved to impose tougher measures against people who attack healthcare staff in hospitals in response to a recent surge in violent incidents. A decree passed on 3 October1 is ...

The UK government has announced £11m in funding for six projects aimed at increasing early cancer diagnosis, including a blood test that promises to detect 12 common cancers. Mionco is a multi-cancer ...

A doctor who became close friends with Lucy Letby when they worked together was “misled and maybe manipulated” by the nurse, he told the public inquiry into her crimes. Named only as Dr U, he was the ...

GPs in England are being urged to review their repeat prescribing systems to ensure that they are safe and efficient—the first such guidance issued for 20 years. The Royal College of General ...

When the Mildmay Mission Hospital in east London began accepting patients with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s little was known about the disease. Diagnosis was a certain death sentence and there was no ...

The complete lack of specialist care in England for patients with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME or chronic fatigue syndrome) could cause deaths in future unless urgent action is taken, a ...

A Finnish neurologist is taking an innovative approach to health through a unique role and project. Elisabeth Mahase reports In 2021, Hanna Haveri became Finland’s first planetary health physician, a ...

Our ability to ameliorate the adverse impacts of climate change on health is dependent on our ability to educate ourselves, and we must move faster. The severity of climate related health risks is ...

Adopting a more evidence based approach to commissioning health prevention services could yield a bigger return on investment (ROI) each year, an analysis1 has suggested. The report by the NHS ...

At a population level, adding fluoride to drinking water may have less of an effect than it used to, researchers have concluded. A detailed Cochrane review by UK researchers concluded that the benefit ...

A former GP has been jailed for 22 years for a string of indecent assaults of female patients between 1988 and 1997. Judge Sarah Campbell told Stephen Cox at Reading Crown Court, “Doctors are among ...