Baby feeding charities and experts have called on the government to urgently publish its response to recommendations for ...

South Carolina has confirmed 15 cases of measles and quarantined 139 unvaccinated children in the hope of stemming the latest ...

Ali Agha Khaleeli was born in Madras, India, in 1946. His father was an orthopaedic surgeon and his mother was the first Muslim woman to attend medical school in Singapore. The family moved to the UK ...

Multilateral initiatives are needed to signal confidence and fill funding gaps in mRNA research, writes Jennifer B Nuzzo ...

The US president, Donald Trump, has promised to lower the cost of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) by urging companies that provide health insurance to their employees to offer the fertility treatment.

John James Jones, known as JJ or Taff, was, despite being born in Bristol, a proud Welshman. He was raised in Mid Wales by his father, an aircraft draughtsman, and his mother, a midwife. He attended ...

Family doctors will continue to refer patients to emergency departments when they become inundated with appointment requests and “safe capacity is breached,” a GP leader has told health secretary Wes ...

The GMC has vowed to act after an investigation highlighted a failure to vet overseas doctors applying for NHS jobs. Jane Feinmann reports A total of 22 doctors on the General Medical Council register ...

Public health experts warn that England is facing an early flu season this year, with the number of cases rising over the past week. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) urged eligible people to take ...

Total liabilities for medical negligence in the NHS now have reached £60bn (€69bn; $81bn), the government’s public spending watchdog has found. The figure—more than four times the sum recorded nearly ...

Pharmaceutical pricing policies must prioritise patients and public interest over industry profits, say Els Torreele and Martin McKee Pharmaceutical companies are intensifying pressure on the UK ...

O’Dowd reports the results of an NHS survey, which found that “the prevalence of mental ill health in England is worsening, with higher numbers of people experiencing problems and less than half ...