The introduction of the contraceptive pill in 1961 heralded a sexual revolution for women in the UK. For Jill Tattersall, who had trained in obstetrics and gynaecology, it proved a career defining ...
A British Palestinian doctor who made allegedly antisemitic posts on social media has been suspended from the UK medical register for 15 months while her fitness to practise is investigated. Rahmeh ...
A trial of lenacapavir showed 100% protection against HIV infection. But cuts to foreign aid and criticism over its pricing put the brakes on a worldwide rollout. Elna Schütz asks if we’re now seeing ...
Hundreds of thousands of children are set to be lifted out of poverty, as the UK government has announced that it will end the limit restricting universal credit support to two children per family.
Government ‘withholding data that may link covid jab to excess deaths’,” read the headline in the Telegraph . “Health chiefs accused of a ‘cover up’ after failing to reveal data that may link covid ...
As a final year medical student who is transitioning to a career in medicine after a 25 year career in professional services, I’m pleased that NHS England has mandated a 10 point plan to improve the ...
Adding fluoride to drinking water has no negative effect on cognitive ability and may even confer a small cognitive benefit, research has found.1 The finding comes as the public health practice of ...
The case for a greater focus on medical “expert generalists” in the NHS has been in the health policy news recently. The NHS England diagnostic review of postgraduate medical training, which I ...
A 10 day old baby died of sepsis following a biopsy after doctors gave her the wrong antibiotics, sent her home too early, and failed to get her parents’ informed consent, an inquest has heard. Willow ...
Rates of whooping cough (pertussis) are rising in the US as fewer children are being vaccinated. Official data showed 35 493 cases of the disease in the US in 2024, a fivefold increase from 7063 in ...
Dairy drinks will be hit by the soft drinks levy and private funding will be used to help with the development of hundreds of new GP led health centres. These policies have been announced ahead of the ...
Generative AI is expanding access, understanding, and choice for patients but also creating new risks and ethical questions, argue Charlotte Blease and colleagues What once sounded like science ...
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