A sharp rise in drug related deaths in recent years is largely responsible for the UK’s mortality worsening compared with other high income countries, an analysis has found. The UK rate of drug ...

The bibliometric analytics company Clarivate has announced that citations to and from retracted articles will no longer contribute to a journal’s impact factor.1 The company, which publishes its ...

In the early 1980s a well dressed woman in high heels entered a police station in Birmingham. She had come to see a police officer who had become violent and had had to be restrained by colleagues. He ...

Siddhanth Sharma and colleagues argue that adaptation to cope with the health effects of climate change requires more focused local data and dedicated funding Climate change is often called “the ...

More than 3600 attacks on healthcare in conflict zones were recorded last year—15% more than in 2023 and 62% more than in 2022—a report by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition has found.1 ...

As people live longer with dementia, we must balance the benefits and harms of medical interventions to meet unique individual needs, writes Jay B Lusk Much attention has been paid to the development ...

Husain describes the need for closer collaboration between universities and NHS organisations.1 At the heart of this struggling relationship are financial pressures, with partnered institutions ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, Ttestifying before a US Senate committee, defended the Trump administration’s proposal to slash more than $30bn (£21bn; €27bn) from ...

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has criticised “truly shocking” police guidance detailing how to search women’s homes for abortifacient drugs and seize phones to look for period ...

If you take a sick child from its parents or nurse you break its heart immediately,” wrote physician George Armstrong in 1792. Mary Lindsay took these words to heart and throughout her seven decades ...

An infant with a rare genetic condition made headlines last week after successfully receiving personalised CRISPR therapy. Jacqui Wise summarises what we know so far about the breakthrough US doctors ...

US president Donald Trump has nominated a new surgeon general after abruptly withdrawing his first selection, Janette Nesheiwat, after questions about her credentials and her support for masking ...