Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has said that it is treating an increasing number of children for measles, amid reports that a child died after contracting the infection.1 The Times reported that a ...

Anders Bach-Mortensen and colleagues examine how increasing reliance on out-of-pocket payments for adult social care has created a quality divide In July 2024, the UK government abandoned long awaited ...

Twenty years of working in medicine is just long enough to realise how much things change and how little the core truths ever will. In 2004, in my first year as a doctor, we lived in a world defined ...

Over 12 000 Gazans desperately need to be evacuated for medical care, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said in a plea to countries around the world to “open their doors” to evacuees. “As the genocide in ...

As the Precision Public Health Asia conference approaches, Kent Buse and colleagues caution that the specialty risks becoming a high tech fix for deeply political problems In The Time Machine by HG ...

Consultant colorectal surgeon Ling Wong talks to Kathy Oxtoby about the complex surgery he performs—and how it’s important to find hope in every situation “I’m the type of person who doesn’t give up ...

Awaab’s law is an opportunity to advocate for better health When 2 year old Awaab Ishak died in 2020 the forensic pathologist found that the airway granulomas which led to his respiratory arrest were ...

Collection of ethnicity data in clinical research has been poor historically, but is essential to ensure that interventions are effective and safe across diverse populations. These data are needed to ...

Empowering, participatory approaches are needed to improve quality of life and health outcomes for people with dementia, write Emily Ong and colleagues Dementia is the seventh leading cause of death ...

The government is to streamline the regulation of patient safety in England after a review concluded that there is “considerable duplication and overlap” between different organisations. The review, ...

Power and resource imbalances experienced by African non-government organisations must be remedied to ensure that people with lived experience in the global south can participate meaningfully in ...

Healthcare must be rebuilt to embed lived experience in design and delivery to tackle the structural homophobia and transphobia that contribute to poorer outcomes among gay and trans people, writes ...