Hospitalist programmes, initially introduced in the USA in the 1990s, have spread to other countries, including Canada, Australia, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, South Korea, and Switzerland, among ...
The UK’s response to the covid pandemic was stuck in a spiral of death. Boris Johnson’s government was too slow to respond, and when it did so the response was inadequate. Many thousands of lives were ...
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has attacked the leadership of the BMA’s GP Committee in England in the ongoing row over online access to family doctors. Streeting has gone over the heads of the ...
Laboratory testing errors that could lead to patient harm are in danger of being missed after the withdrawal of a voluntary oversight scheme, experts have warned, saying that a radical overhaul of the ...
Electronic patient record (EPR) systems can contribute to “serious harm” when patient information is missed, delayed, or recorded incorrectly, a national safety watchdog has warned. The Health ...
The UK National Screening Committee has advised against routine screening for prostate cancer with the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test, saying that the harms would outweigh the benefits.
Adding fluoride to drinking water has no negative effect on cognitive ability and may even confer a small cognitive benefit, research has found.1 The finding comes as the public health practice of ...
A trial of lenacapavir showed 100% protection against HIV infection. But cuts to foreign aid and criticism over its pricing put the brakes on a worldwide rollout. Elna Schütz asks if we’re now seeing ...
A global resurgence of measles is a “fire alarm” for further waves of other infectious diseases such as diphtheria and polio, a senior health official has said. The remarks came at the launch of the ...
Far right parties are gaining ground across the world. The more that governments seem unable or unwilling to improve the material conditions of people’s lives, especially those who are most deprived, ...
Rates of whooping cough (pertussis) are rising in the US as fewer children are being vaccinated. Official data showed 35 493 cases of the disease in the US in 2024, a fivefold increase from 7063 in ...
Hundreds of thousands of children are set to be lifted out of poverty, as the UK government has announced that it will end the limit restricting universal credit support to two children per family.
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