The UK government is to press ahead with adding folic acid to flour to try to prevent hundreds of babies each year from being born with neural tube defects. Folic acid deficiency is a leading cause of ...

A Canadian adolescent is in a critical condition in a British Columbia hospital after becoming infected with a new genotype of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The patient, who has not ...

Meaningful progress to mitigate the climate crisis and improve health systems will only be possible with a commitment to equity, justice, and inclusion, say Arthur Ng’etich and colleagues As the 29th ...

On 6 November Donald Trump was re-elected president of the United States after an election campaign characterised by fear, lies, and disinformation. Trump’s campaign featured his insistence that he ...

Citizens want assurance on accountability and control If the NHS is broken, as the UK health secretary, Wes Streeting, says,1 better use of data should be part of the remedy. A recent report by Ara ...

Ann Robinson reviews the latest research Postpartum haemorrhage kills around 70 000 women a year. Since the results of the WOMAN trial in 2017, intravenous tranexamic acid given within three hours of ...

Some GPs think that patients should have the freedom to choose how they access care, others believe that offering private appointments would lead to a two tier system, further entrenching social ...

A House of Lords committee has called on the government and NHS England to act to reduce preterm births and provide greater support for the parents of babies born before 37 weeks. The Preterm Birth ...

More than 800 million adults around the world now have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, a global analysis has estimated—more than four times the number in 1990. Almost six in 10 adults aged over 30 with ...

Benjamin Goodair and colleagues argue that growth of private provision in adult social care in England has resulted in worse care and should be rolled back Adult social care in England is in crisis.

The current system for delivering NHS cardiovascular disease (CVD) health checks is not working effectively and must be reviewed to ensure that it reaches people with the highest risk, the National ...

Davide Bonaldo/SOPA/Sipa/Alamy The devastating power and impact of the flash floods that swept through eastern Spain from 29 October is captured in this image from the city of Valencia. More than 200 ...