Supporting the healthy development of children requires an approach to smartphone and social media use underpinned by age appropriate design and education, argue Victoria Goodyear and colleagues ...

A rise in antibiotic resistant cases of gonorrhoea, including extensively drug resistant (XDR) strains, risks making the sexually transmitted infection (STI) “untreatable” if the problem is not ...

Bill was passed in the UK House of Commons by a majority of 330 to 275. One key consensus in the debates surrounding the bill was that while palliative care in the UK can be excellent, its provision ...

The UK government is facing a fierce backlash over welfare cuts that a new analysis says will push an additional 250 000 people—including 50 000 children—into relative poverty in 2029-30. Under the ...

Staff should introduce themselves with their title, name, and role and have badges clearly detailing this to avoid confusion and misdirection, writes Tim Cook The “Hello, my name is” campaign, set up ...

Doctors in Gaza have been “abandoned by the world” as they continue to struggle to provide basic healthcare amid renewed Israeli airstrikes, a lack of staff and supplies, and under threat of violence ...

A new deal for GPs in Scotland which promised to transform their working lives has been a failure, says a damning report from Audit Scotland. A contract agreed with the Scottish government in 2018 ...

Research into the effects of climate change on human health will no longer be funded by the US health department’s research arm, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said a memo distributed to ...

The treatment of around 800 patients by a now suspended consultant paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is to be examined by a panel of expert clinicians, after an ...

The timeline for the proposed introduction of assisted dying in England and Wales could be pushed back to four years, raising fears among supporters that its introduction may be abandoned altogether.

Since Brexit the UK government has flouted its own guidelines and initiatives by plugging NHS staffing gaps with staff from outside the EU. Sally Howard reports The NHS is relying too much on ...

As paediatricians working in the US, we view the changes being made to our healthcare and education systems, research enterprise, and regulatory agencies1 as truly dystopian. The damage is clear to us ...