Healthcare can build trust between nations, but it can also be weaponised to shape narratives and suppress criticism. Recognising this dynamic is the first step toward protecting the moral purpose of ...

Although advances in perinatal care have vastly improved survival rates for children born at less than 32 weeks gestational age, a systematic review finds that these children remain at high risk of ...

A man in his 40s with a background of chronic scrotal eczema presented with a four day history of painful scrotal rash and fever (37.8°C), after heterosexual contact with a casual partner using a ...

A man in his 50s was referred to the dermatology clinic from the plastic surgery clinic with a two year history of a right sided nasal lesion. The lesion started as a papule that enlarged slowly and ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research People with diabetes who have a minor acute ischaemic stroke are at high risk of having another stroke within three months. A small open label trial set in China ...

At the 77th World Health Assembly in 2024 governments made a unanimous and unprecedented commitment to put patients, people and communities with lived experience, and healthcare workers at the heart ...

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Gareth Rees was one of two brothers who were born and raised in rural Carmarthenshire, the son of a local schoolmaster and a nurse. At grammar school in Llandovery Gareth excelled both academically ...

NHS doctors could soon be supported by “AI assistants” while doing bowel examinations, after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) conditionally approved five AI tools that act ...

A man in the US state of Washington has contracted bird flu in what is the first known human case of the H5N5 strain of the viral disease.1 It is also the first human case of any bird flu recorded in ...

UK risks crisis from rising ill health One in five working age adults in the UK are now unfit to work because of ill health, a government report warned. Rising sickness levels mean that the nation ...

Thousands of locally employed doctors—many of them international graduates and from ethnic minorities—are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national ...