As a co-founder of the British Paediatric Respiratory Group at the University of Edinburgh, and later as professor of child health at the University of Leicester, Hamish Simpson helped to establish ...

Five Planned Parenthood affiliates have sued Donald Trump’s administration over new restrictions tied to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention programme of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).1 ...

Acute ischemic stroke is a leading global cause of death and disability. Intravenous thrombolysis was the first acute treatment developed for ischemic strokes. First with alteplase and now with ...

Francis and colleagues’ summary of the NICE clinical guideline on gambling related harms is an excellent synopsis of a complex piece of guidance in a difficult and emerging space.1 Most public health ...

The NHS Race and Health Observatory (RHO) has agreed to collaborate with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to tackle persistent and systemic ethnic health inequalities. The ...

Two children from Gaza who arrived in London on 26 April for urgent medical treatment were the first medical evacuees from the region to the UK since the conflict between Hamas and Israel broke out on ...

Around one in six general practices in England will receive funding to help them modernise their premises this financial year, the government has announced. A total of £102m has been allocated to be ...

Amitava Banerjee and colleagues argue that an approach to ethnicity that more accurately considers social and behavioural determinants of health is needed to reduce health inequalities Ethnic ...

The UK government is failing to measure the “true cost of inaction on social care” and the harms a broken system is causing to the country and the NHS, MPs have warned. They said that, unless this ...

Efforts to reduce health inequalities worldwide are not working fast enough, and health gap reduction targets set almost 20 years ago are likely to be missed, the World Health Organisation has warned.

Iran’s medical training system is facing a rash of suicides, depression, and burnout, with increasing numbers of newly trained physicians leaving the country. Mohammad Saeed Gharaati Jahromi reports ...

An alliance of regional African leadership and oversight of resource extraction is essential to promote stability, write Faraan O Rahim and coauthors On 25 April 2025, foreign ministers from ...