A GP has been suspended from the UK medical register for five months for booking fake medical appointments so she could leave work in time to pick her children up from an after school club. Helen ...

Outbreaks of several infectious diseases in Cuba have killed dozens and are reportedly overwhelming the island’s hospitals and mortuaries. Cuba is confronting one of its most serious infectious ...

In the remote islands of Chuuk state, Micronesia, tuberculosis has long been a silent crisis, spreading quietly through communities, often undiagnosed. For many decades, tuberculosis could only be ...

Gazans are struggling to survive in makeshift shelters after widespread heavy rain, flooding, and frigid temperatures caused sewage to overflow and brought high rates of respiratory infections and ...

Almost one million people have signed up to a national diabetes prevention scheme, which has been shown to cut the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by more than a third. NHS England released details ...

Deadly heatwaves, rising outbreaks of infectious diseases, and failing hospitals—the effects of climate change are among the greatest public health threats of the 21st century. Each year, extreme heat ...

A new consultation on expanding access to naloxone—which reverses the effects of opioid overdoses—to homeless shelters and other key locations has been launched by the UK government.1 Part of the plan ...

The US government has set out plans to ban all transgender care such as puberty blocking drugs, hormone treatments, and surgeries in the US.1 At a press conference on 18 December the US health ...

The Cass Review Final Report [2] highlights the lack of evidence of benefit of puberty blockers (PBs) for gender-related distress. The scientific grounds for such a trial are not established and there ...

Dear Editor Given the fact that resident doctors have been intermittently on strike since 13/3/23, this might be an opportune time to document (with hard facts and figures) the extent to which the ...

We live in a world of lies, damned lies, and AI hallucinations. A US publication calculated that Donald Trump told 30 573 lies during his first term as president.1 Trump is neither alone nor ...

A musical charity provides moments of calm for babies and parents amid the intensity of neonatal wards. Anna Caldwell talks to the doctors and musicians involved In 2025, Music in Hospitals & Care has ...