Age based thresholds for blood tests to detect ovarian cancer should be introduced, the National Institute for Health and ...

High profile physicians should be using their positions of power to resist Trump and RFK Jr’s damaging policies, not ...

The nine common conditions, for which patients will be able to have an online appointment with a specialist anywhere in ...

Adrian O’Dowd examines just how bad the current flu season is and whether warnings it could be the worst in decades were ...

IT issues are a bugbear for NHS staff, and the 10 year plan includes an ambitious goal for change. Chris Stokel-Walker asks ...

Mark Hellowell and colleagues argue that international recovery funds offer Ukraine an opportunity to transform healthcare, ...

Katie McDougall (née Edwards) was born in Penzance and grew up in Twyford, then Henley on Thames. She was educated at the Abbey school in Reading and graduated from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School ...

Mary Bernadette Synnott was born in 1951 in County Limerick in Ireland and attended secondary school at the Presentation Convent in Limerick city. Mary’s undergraduate years were at University College ...

As vaccine sceptic attitudes continue to spread in political groups on both sides of the Atlantic, the UK government is now offering vaccination against chickenpox. As of 2 January general practices ...

Campaigners have welcomed restrictions on junk food advertising to combat childhood obesity finally coming into effect in the UK. They warned, however, that allowing companies to continue to advertise ...

It’s all part of a “carrot-and-stick” approach by the Chinese government to try to boost birthrates. From 1 January 2026 condoms and other contraceptives will no longer be exempt from China’s 13% ...

Not only is gonorrhoea becoming increasingly common, but rising antibiotic resistance is making the once easily curable infection increasingly difficult to treat, reports Katharine Lang Drug resistant ...