Increasing the use of vaccines could help tackle the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by reducing the need for antibiotics by 22% globally—or 2.5 billion defined daily doses—every year ...

This week the inquiry heard further testimony from doctors and patients about their experiences during the pandemic. Matthew Limb and Jacqui Wise report Learning that the first 10 doctors in the UK to ...

Physician associates (PAs) must only see patients in general practice who have been triaged by a GP and only undertake work delegated to them, and agreed with, their named GP supervisor, says new ...

All lead pipes on public land in the US will be replaced by 2037 under a new rule established by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Biden administration has announced. The new rule also ...

Large language models have the potential to enhance equitable access to health information, but their poor performance in some languages could exacerbate the digital divide in healthcare, say Arthur ...

Regulation and monitoring are needed to prevent harmful bias in AI tools Artificial intelligence (AI) could help achieve global health equity by extending efficient and cost effective healthcare to ...

Police investigating the deaths of hundreds of patients who died after being given opioid painkillers at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire have identified 24 suspects. Police told families ...

Disparities in access to healthcare in England for some patient groups have been made clear in a large analysis published today by two think tanks. People from the most deprived areas are much more ...

India has eliminated trachoma—one of the world’s leading causes of blindness—60 years after the country’s ministry of health first launched control initiatives, the World Health Organization (WHO) has ...

Over a three year period nearly 90 000 people with a severe mental illness (SMI) have died from physical health conditions that could have been prevented, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said.

Climate change is altering the world we live in, and children are particularly affected, write Tobias Alfvén and Zulfi Bhutta This summer, new temperature records were set all around the world, ...

The BMA is calling on the UK government to increase the amount of core funding that general practices get for each patient, by 11p to 42p a day, as a “significant first step” towards ending GPs’ ...