A 10th of deaths worldwide related to infection are potentially linked to obesity, a study of 540 000 people concludes.1 The analysis of data from two Finnish cohorts and UK Biobank found that people ...

Wales will raise the minimum price for a unit of alcohol by 30% from 50p to 65p after members of the Senedd agreed the plan to bring the policy in line with Scotland. Independent research commissioned ...

External factors are forcing change to the global health architecture, demanding creative reform amid an uncertain future If 2025 marked the dismantling of the global health architecture, then 2026 ...

Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic Cardiovascular ...

The new UK-US pharmaceutical deal marks a major shift in the UK’s approach to evaluating, pricing, and adopting new medicines.1 Faster access to innovative treatments for conditions such as cancer ...

James Gilbert, a transplant surgeon who sexually harassed junior colleagues for more than a decade, is now free to work again in the UK after regulators lost a second attempt to have him struck off ...

Diagnosis rates between the sexes may be more equal than previously thought Autism has long been regarded as a condition that ...

At least 36 cases of babies becoming sickened from tainted infant formula supplies have been reported in the UK, officials ...

Three quarters of cancer patients in England will survive the disease by at least five years by 2035 under a major new ...

England’s new strategy for men’s health is aimed at tackling important public health areas including alcohol abuse, gambling ...

A man in his 70s presented with a one month history of painless, non-pruritic nodules and plaques on the right side of his ...

Objective To compare the diagnostic accuracy of minipad collected menstrual blood versus clinician collected cervical samples to test for human papillomavirus (HPV) in the detection of cervical ...