A deadly outbreak of meningococcal disease in Kent earlier this year was caused by the pathogen picking up genetic material ...

Short term planning and funding and excessive regulation are holding back NHS productivity, a report by the Health Foundation ...

South Korea plans to approve its first abortion pill for use up to nine weeks into pregnancy. Seven years ago the socially ...

England’s most affluent areas have seen the fastest rise in the proportion of young people receiving benefits to support them ...

US President Donald Trump is demanding that some children’s vaccines be split into five separate shots with longer intervals ...

Martha’s rule—an initiative allowing patients and their families an urgent review if they have concerns about their condition ...

How England’s electronic patient records are configured will shape health equity, argue Shaun Boustani and colleagues , but ...

Girls denied education today become women with poorer health, write Nadia Akseer and colleagues It’s been five years since ...

Hospitals and general practices across the country are asking patients to “describe their experience in their own words” amid ...

A national waiting time standard for dementia care in England should be introduced to bring it into line with other ...

Borland asks what needs to change after the Amos review of maternity care in England.1 She notes that all maternity reviews ...

Indian authorities are investigating a suspected counterfeit medicine racket in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It ...