A summer wave of covid and a rise in other respiratory illnesses has put a spotlight on seasonal vaccination in 2024. Chris Baraniuk reports on what we can expect this coming winter and beyond As ...
A large NHS GP partnership has sold the digital triage and online consultation platform that it developed for its patients to a private health technology company. The Hurley Group of GPs in southeast ...
Of the many attributes that one expects of academics in the practice of whatever subject they choose to study, curiosity is among the most important. In recent years in the UK, research that is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The government is launching a “red tape challenge” to cut down on bureaucracy and free up GPs’ time, Wes Streeting has said. In a speech at the annual conference of the Royal College of General ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...