A health scandal in which newborn babies were allowed to die for profit has cast a harsh light on Turkey’s growing reliance on private hospitals. Eleven private hospitals in and around Istanbul have ...

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 ...

Long awaited reforms to outdated mental health laws in England and Wales, giving patients more autonomy, have been introduced in the UK parliament.1 The first major overhaul of mental health ...

Donald Trump’s re-election to the US presidency will mean changes to healthcare, reproductive rights, and effects of climate change in peoples’ lives, in addition to the worries about inflation and ...

Abortion bans or restrictions in US states are endangering all women, including those with pregnancies that are not viable or are actively harming their health, writes Maryl Sackeim On 24 June 2022, ...

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) should remain the recommended approach for treating vasomotor symptoms related to the menopause, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has said ...

New study reports protective effect among people with type 2 diabetes Kidney stones and the systemic conditions associated with them have a major impact on health and the economy in the US and ...

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 ...

Witnessing a postmortem examination can be markedly different from undertaking a dissection, and may be more distressing. Medical students should receive a detailed brief about the technical practice ...

Drawing inferences from observational data with possible confounding Heart failure is increasing in prevalence and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide,1 with prevalence ranging from ...

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 BMA has criticised the framing of a BBC news report that said consultant doctors were being paid as much as £200 000 a year in overtime to tackle the NHS backlog.1 The BBC’s investigation reported ...