The price of prescription drugs is too high. This is a global problem on which we can agree with Donald Trump. This week the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) refused to ...

A retired GP and climate activist has been suspended for a second time from the UK medical register, this time for the maximum period of 12 months. Sarah Benn was suspended for five months in April ...

The UK government must intensify its efforts to tackle the preventable public health impact of air pollution amid growing evidence about the harmful effects of toxic air, the Royal College of ...

Persistent neglect of sickle cell disorder in the UK has led to a “breakdown in trust” among patients who continue to experience racism and substandard treatment, research has found. The NHS Race and ...

The NHS is increasingly exposed to the impacts of extreme heat, but is dangerously unequipped to adapt, an alliance representing more than one million UK health professionals has warned.1 The UK ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has maintained its decision not to recommend two treatments for Alzheimer’s disease on the NHS, after concluding that they still do not ...

A Syrian doctor working in Germany has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Frankfurt court after being found guilty of murder, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Alaa Moussa, 40, was ...

The medical profession and NHS leaders need to tackle “ambivalence” around sharing information on children at risk of sexual exploitation, the independent review into grooming gangs has said.1 The ...

Focus on fostering sustainable changes over time Fasting is defined as the voluntary abstinence from food for a determined period. Although traditionally associated with religious purposes,1 the ...

Last month, a baby in the US city of Philadelphia received treatment calibrated to his genetic code, offering relief for his life threatening disease.1 Yet at a time of such stunning scientific ...

Adriana Smith, a brain dead nurse who has been kept on life support to comply with Georgia’s laws on abortion and personhood, gave birth on 13 June to a premature baby boy at Emory Hospital Midtown in ...

MPs have voted decisively to abolish the possibility of prosecuting any woman in England or Wales for terminating her own pregnancy at any stage, in a move described as the biggest change to UK ...