Access to the UK’s rich and vast banks of health data should be streamlined and simplified, to capitalise on the unique opportunity it offers to boost biomedical research and improve lives, a major ...

Toxicologists have warned of a sharp rise in drug overdose deaths in England involving a group of potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Nitazenes have been found as contaminants in street heroin ...

NICE has said it expects to evaluate dozens of potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease over the next few years. Elisabeth Mahase examines what we know about these drugs This year the National ...

The Medical Protection Society has called for all NHS trust staff who deal with disciplinary investigations to have specialised training, to ensure that doctors are treated fairly and compassionately, ...

In this episode of Sharp Scratch, the panel got together to discuss the many reasons why someone might take time out of medical school. They reflected on how decisions to take time out are often ...

The narrative on universal health coverage should be centred around four core elements: universality, equity, adequate financing, and preparedness in public health emergencies, write Katri Bertram and ...

Over 100 governments at a United Nations event in Colombia have committed to ending violence against children, including through banning corporal punishment, improving services for the children ...

Therapist guided conversations with digital avatars may reduce the frequency of voices heard by patients diagnosed with ...

Record breaking outbreaks worldwide have put the virus in the spotlight like never before. Kamala Thiagarajan asks why—and what are we doing to try to stop it? Neelika Malavige knows first hand the ...

Almost a third of children who live in the most deprived areas of England have obesity by the time they leave primary school—twice as many as those who live in the least deprived areas, an analysis ...

The UK is making progress in developing cancer vaccines, but there are still challenges ahead, Chris Baraniuk reports The UK is on its way to becoming a hotbed of cancer vaccine trials. In May this ...

Salisbury says that physician associates (PAs) have no place in general practice,1 but the 2000 already employed would ...