Background Primary healthcare (PHC) is critical towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In Ghana, PHC is organised ...
Review highlights key issues but stops short of the structural reform needed Phase 1 of NHS England’s medical training review ...
Nutritional deficiencies are common after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery. However, severe zinc deficiency is a ...
Four in 10 children and young people have seen content promoting glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist weight loss drugs online, a report by England’s Children’s Commissioner warns.1 The report also ...
Resident doctors in Scotland have voted to accept a government pay offer that the BMA says will equate to a pay uplift of almost 10% a year for the next two years. The deal includes an 8.16% pay ...
In 1977 Pam Zinkin, a single parent with two sons, went to newly independent Mozambique to work as a consultant paediatrician. The family was meant to be there for six months but ended up staying for ...
Radical health system wide change is needed for the new cancer plan to succeed where others have failed, write Bernard Rachet , Ajay Aggarwal , and Martin McKee The 2026 national cancer plan for ...
The US Food and Drug Administration has refused to consider an mRNA flu vaccine made by Moderna, potentially preventing it going through the drug approval process. A US government spokesman accused ...
In 2020 Aggrey Burke was awarded the president’s medal by the Royal College of Psychiatrists; then in 2023 the college launched a fellowship in his name, a two year programme for black medical ...
Two leading US medical associations have recommended a pause on gender surgery for children and adolescents, citing a lack of evidence. The announcements came as more than 40 US hospitals have ...
Background Drug exposure has been reported in association with Takotsubo syndrome, but the breadth and relative strength of ...
NHS patients are receiving remote care from GPs based overseas under a pilot scheme that claims to reduce clinical admin for ...