New World Health Organization data show that an estimated six million deaths are caused each year in the Americas by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), 43% more than at the turn of the century. Most of ...

The latest NHS plan, published on 3 July, sets out the ideas and ambitions for the NHS in England over the next 10 years, adding a little more detail to the already stated aims of shifting activity to ...

The government has pledged to “tackle bottlenecks in medical training pathways” by prioritising UK medical graduates for training places and creating 1000 additional specialty training posts within ...

Many doctors are turning to portfolio careers to reduce burnout and improve morale, Elisabeth Mahase hears Patrice Baptiste, portfolio GP, says, “My portfolio career was born out of a desperate need ...

The creation of neighbourhood health centres, announced last week in the government’s 10 year health plan,12 must not result in GP premises being “left to wither,” the chair of the BMA’s General ...

Robin was born in Welbeck Street, London, at a private hospital to Frank and Margery Marsh. He spent his early childhood in Persia, now Iran, where Frank was director of pathology for the ...

GPs in Northern Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking collective action in an attempt to force improvements to the 2025-26 General Medical Services (GMS) contract which was imposed on ...

Sustainable change requires improved study design, market incentives, and patient involvement, write Kate Womersley and colleagues For too long, medical research has defaulted to male physiology, ...

Public health must reclaim digital spaces to boost trust Outbreaks of measles, which is both deadly and readily preventable, are symptoms of a global health system in trouble. Between 2022 and 2023, ...

A mosquito borne virus that causes mass livestock abortions has killed hundreds of people in East Africa—and climate change is accelerating its spread. Frank Burkybile reports on the growing threat of ...

Laura Schmidt and colleagues identify systemic financial conflicts of interest that serve as a cautionary tale for users of medical guidelines Prescribing glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor ...

Jim Mackey, chief executive of NHS England, recently said the quiet part out loud: the NHS can sometimes see patients as an inconvenience.1 It’s a stark observation, but it resonates deeply with ...