Ethiopian health authorities are responding to the country’s first ever outbreak of the Marburg virus. Three deaths have been confirmed and another three are being investigated, officials in Addis ...

Andrew was born in Hampstead, London, to Wiesa and Abram Jacob Flapan, a physician, both immigrants from Poland during the second world war. He attended school in north London and, after the early ...

A new law that ties doctors’ pay to performance targets, and which imposes harsh penalties on any who seek to resist the changes, has drawn the fury of unions in Quebec. The law, known as “Loi 2,” ...

Scotland should decriminalise abortion and remove the requirement that two doctors certify an abortion before 24 weeks’ gestation, an independent review has recommended.1 The Scottish Government ...

Ending resident doctors’ industrial action and avoiding further strikes should be “one of health secretary Wes Streeting’s most urgent tasks,” the Institute for Government (IfG) has said.123 The think ...

As the use of GLP-1 agonists such as semaglutide and tirzepatide for weight loss becomes increasingly common in adults, and obesity continues to increase in children and adolescents, should these ...

The Americas region, which comprises 35 countries, has officially lost its measles-free status.1 It comes after a year that has seen 12 593 cases and 28 deaths from measles in the region. When Canada ...

Domestic law alone can’t ensure continuity and accountability. International agreements are our last line of defence, writes Martin McKee International agreements to which the UK is a signatory, such ...

Maybe they should be. Looking at art in galleries produces measurable benefits for health and wellbeing, according to new research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at ...

David Fraile Navarro and colleagues consider how generative AI can be safely integrated into clinical consultations to ensure patient centred decision making and accountability and introduce the ...

Future articles will explore how it can strengthen patient autonomy and agency3 and the competencies clinicians need for triadic care.4 Although this technological evolution offers potential benefits, ...

Different data paint a contrasting picture of how productive the health service in England is. Matthew Limb examines why Productivity in acute hospitals in England is rising, data published by the ...