An independent investigation by a panel of 14 international experts into the cause of injury and death of the babies Lucy Letby is convicted of murdering or attempting to murder has claimed that there ...

AI presents some exciting opportunities for the NHS, but leaders need to drive the technology and not the other way round, reports Chris Stokel-Walker Artificial intelligence will be a gamechanger ...

Hochul signed the bill days after New York doctor Margaret Carpenter was indicted on criminal charges in Louisiana for providing an illegal abortion with mailed medication abortion pills that were ...

Declining US drug overdose deaths show that public health approaches work The US overdose crisis contributed to over 100 000 deaths in 2023.1 The 22% decrease in overdose deaths between August 2023 ...

People with long covid helped to shape research during the pandemic, and researchers must continue to recognise their important contribution The covid-19 pandemic was fraught and complicated, and ...

Last week the Public Accounts Committee produced an excoriating report on the financial sustainability of the NHS in England.1 It criticised the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS ...

Alistair Rennie was born on the southside of Glasgow. He attended the local primary and secondary schools, where he did well. He went on to Glasgow University to study medicine but also continued with ...

Allison John and Rocky When Allison John was 13 and watching the science programme Tomorrow’s World , a segment on gene therapy came up. This was cutting edge stuff in the early 1990s and John had ...

First generation cephalosporins (Cefadroxil, Cefalexin, Cefazolin, and Cefradine) can now be used as first line treatments in the UK after an update from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).1 The ...

The UK was “navigating a middle path” between the US and Europe when it came to integrating artificial intelligence into healthcare and regulating its use, Dominic Cushnan, deputy director for AI at ...