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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long awaited reforms to outdated mental health laws in England and Wales, giving patients more autonomy, have been introduced in the UK parliament.1 The first major overhaul of mental health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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A United Nations summit on biodiversity that aimed to halt the collapse of nature has ended largely in disappointment as countries failed to present plans on how to save the natural world or to reach ...

The health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, has asked the NHS to “look at the case for lowering the screening age on prostate cancer,” particularly for people with a family history of the ...