Around 300 hospice inpatient beds in England are currently closed or out of use because of funding and staff shortages, ...

The UK government has announced a deal with the drug company Seqirus UK for more than five million doses of human H5 ...

International talks to cut plastic pollution collapsed in the early hours of 2 December in what critics are billing as ...

Helen Salisbury notes that collective action on the social determinants of health is far more powerful than anything medicine ...

Children and young people aged under 16 will be banned from a range of social media platforms in Australia within a year, ...

A founding principle of the NHS was the belief in collective responsibility for public health provided through a state run ...

Lee and colleagues investigated the temporal variations in suicide mortality related to day of the week and national holidays ...

Jacob was born in Ghana on Christmas Day 1935. He obtained a scholarship to St Andrew’s University, and after qualifying he ...

The chair of the Countess of Chester Hospital trust board failed to realise when he read a report on unexpected baby deaths ...

Frank Gormley was an NHS doctor his entire working life. He was born in Plumbridge, County Tyrone, in 1934 and studied ...

Once upon a time, a screen was a partition dividing a room. To project meant throwing an object such as a stone or a javelin.

Most people under 18 who develop long covid recover within two years, although almost a third continue to be affected by the ...