A new report has catalogued hundreds of alleged human rights abuses in US immigration detention centres, including physical ...

The NHS hospital where the neonatal nurse Lucy Letby worked has been censured by England’s healthcare regulator over failings ...

Nearly 8000 people in southern China have fallen ill with chikungunya since mid-June, officials have said, although the ...

A former consultant colorectal surgeon has been struck off the UK medical register for concocting multiple fake medical ...

World Athletics has said that all athletes wishing to compete in the female category will have to take an SRY gene test, but ...

One third of doctors are looking to leave the UK medical profession, and nearly half of those are taking serious steps ...

Consider preparation method and replacement food when assessing health risks The potato is a carbohydrate rich tuberous vegetable that traditionally has been used as a staple in many food cultures.

In my 30 years as an orthopaedic surgeon, the types of broken bones we see in hospitals have changed remarkably. We used to ...

As the fourth high level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) approaches, Bai Li and colleagues warn that failing to tackle obesity will set back progress ...

GPs should report all incorrect or misleading results from artificial intelligence (AI) tools used in clinical practice, the UK medicine regulator has urged. The Medicines and Healthcare Products ...

NHS 111’s reliance on an “ineffective” algorithm for potential sepsis cases could be putting patients in danger, experts have warned after the death of a baby. On 26 June 2024 the health of 1 month ...

Most of world’s liver cancers “are preventable” Six in every 10 liver cancers diagnosed worldwide are preventable by reducing risk factors, concluded a “conservative calculation” of cases projected ...