Two additional cases of clade Ib mpox have been detected in household contacts of the first UK case,1 bringing the total number of confirmed cases to three, health officials have reported. The two ...

Three people were sentenced in relation to drug charges on 25 October after an international police investigation found that the Londoners had conspired to import unregulated drugs from India into the ...

Plans to ban smoking outside schools and hospitals in England have been broadly welcomed, but experts and charities say there is still an urgent need for investment in NHS stop smoking services. The ...

NHS England has launched a new campaign emphasising the importance of dialling 999 as soon as stroke symptoms occur, after new data showed that on average people faced a wait of nearly an hour and a ...

A coordinated international response is needed, write Alaha Nasari, Sammer Marzouk, and Samar Al-Hajj Israel’s recent large scale military operations1 in Lebanon have caused a displacement crisis of ...

A week before the chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget, the Nuffield Trust published analysis showing that the NHS in England was facing £4.8bn worth of unfunded cost ...

The rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson has told a coroner’s court that he did not seek specific consent for the cleavage sparing mastectomies he carried out because the operation was merely an ...

Gun violence in the US is the leading cause of death among children and teenagers, drives down life expectancy, and cost the economy around $557bn in 2022, says a report from the Commonwealth Fund, a ...

Doctors’ leaders have warned that the newly announced increase in employers’ national insurance contributions could be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” for general practices, forcing some to ...

NHS England is piloting a new device that can be attached to a smartphone to enable nurses to capture live endoscopy examinations of the throat, as part of plans to rule out suspected throat cancer ...

Last week Rachel Reeves, the chancellor of the exchequer, presented a budget designed to help the NHS, providing £22.6bn of extra funding over the next two years.1 Unfortunately, the main way of ...

I’ve been consulting in palliative medicine for 17 years. I’ve seen patients facing frightening diagnoses and hospital admission experience a loss of dignity and worry about burdening loved ones. The ...