The chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners has condemned “devastating” new figures showing that GPs in deprived areas of England are responsible for at least 300 more patients per doctor ...

Rising deaths related to heat should be a wake-up call to governments for the sake of people’s health and economies, reports Elisabeth Mahase Heat stress, an “invisible killer” that can lead to ...

With 3.5 million people in need, a doctor exodus, and some regions served by the very military group that Israel seeks to rout, Lebanon’s healthcare system is in crisis. Sally Howard reports On 1 ...

NHS leaders are considering a phased rollout of the obesity injection tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Eli Lilly) because of potentially high demand. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) ...

Global temperatures will continue to rise due to climate change, with high temperature periods expected to increase in intensity, frequency, and duration. Infectious diseases, including vector-borne ...

Physician associates (PAs) should not be carrying out medical examinations of children who have reported abuse or who are at risk of abuse and should not produce evidence for courts, forensic doctors ...

Access to urgently needed mpox vaccines in Africa is being hampered by the refusal of leading vaccine manufacturer Bavarian Nordic to share its technology and disclose its prices, a consumer rights ...

Delivering high quality, patient centred care requires medical training that is long enough, broad enough, and deep enough, writes Andrew Elder A senior medical leader recently gave me a piece of ...

Lebanon’s healthcare system is facing “immense challenges” after five facilities were targeted in airstrikes and 38 staff were killed, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian ...

A court judged nurse Lucy Letby guilty of seven murders and seven attempted murders in August 2023. But in the year since then questions have been raised about the evidence used to convict her. With a ...

A senior consultant paediatrician has told the Thirlwall inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of newborns at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015-16 that he feels “ashamed” for ...

When I started writing Perilous Times —a novel in which Arthurian knights return from the dead to save Britain from peril in an exaggerated post-Brexit dystopia—I was suffering from an acute case of ...