We must learn from the successes and failures of the covid-19 vaccination programme if we are to prepare for the next pandemic, writes Samantha Vanderslott Vaccination has been so successful in ...

An error in ranking applicants for radiology specialty training programmes has led to job offers for some doctors being retracted. Resident doctors who applied for radiology were sent the outcomes of ...

How does racism and inequality affect medical research? Wellcome Trust CEO John-Arne Røttingen sits with Victor Adebowale , chair of the NHS Confederation, to discuss ### Biographies John-Arne ...

Thankfully not. Instead, this is good news. Surgeons have linked the move to a cashless society to a dramatic drop in children needing operations for accidentally swallowing small items such as coins.

These are dark and fearful times at all US federal agencies, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is no exception. But at the NIH the fear is compounded by a mystery: why us? The disruptions ...

The US government has unleashed a whirlwind of public service cuts—those to international aid are already having life threatening consequences. Heather Rilkoff reports “What has happened has the ...

Greater cooperation in global health is needed to tackle challenges and to harness new opportunities. Canada should take a greater leadership role, write Jocalyn Clark , Timothy Evans , and Kelley Lee ...

A rise in antibiotic resistant cases of gonorrhoea, including extensively drug resistant (XDR) strains, risks making the sexually transmitted infection (STI) “untreatable” if the problem is not ...

The UK government is facing a fierce backlash over welfare cuts that a new analysis says will push an additional 250 000 people—including 50 000 children—into relative poverty in 2029-30. Under the ...

A new deal for GPs in Scotland which promised to transform their working lives has been a failure, says a damning report from Audit Scotland. A contract agreed with the Scottish government in 2018 ...

The treatment of around 800 patients by a now suspended consultant paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is to be examined by a panel of expert clinicians, after an ...

Decades of improvements in mortality are coming undone as public health funding is eroded and trust in evidence based treatment is undermined. At the same time, commercial interests are pushing people ...