People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change ...

Active partnerships with patients, people, and communities should be at the heart of the 10-year NHS plan Wes Streeting has argued that three shifts are required to make the NHS fit for the future: ...

A federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding after 22 US states filed a temporary restraining ...

Uganda’s Ministry of Health has confirmed nine cases of Ebola virus disease as the outbreak continues and the first person known to be infected, a hospital nurse in Kampala, has died.1 In a statement ...

State run alcohol monopolies in Nordic countries have been a rare success in bringing down alcohol consumption, but the health gains are now at risk as countries open up their national markets, the ...

Young people can expose how power dynamics are limiting healthcare and how challenging them can help to improve services and reduce inequalities, write Rhea Burman and Guddi Singh Co-production and ...

GPs in the North West region of England are more than twice as likely as those in the South East to refer patients with risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) to physical activity interventions ...

The World Health Organization wants to tackle inequity and bureaucracy relating to clinical trials. Will its latest guidance make a difference? Anna Volkmer reports During the covid-19 pandemic the UK ...

The use of tobacco industry tactics by the gambling and other health harming industries means governments must act to prevent large scale avoidable harm, argue May van Schalkwyk and colleagues When an ...

The UK government has announced that it is renewing funding for the public health campaign HIV Prevention England for another year as part of efforts to end HIV transmission by 2030. The programme, ...

In 1964, the Declaration of Helsinki created a set of universal ethical principles to protect human participants in health research.1 Described as “the cornerstone of research ethics,”2 these ...

New restrictions and safety checks on online pharmacies that prescribing high risk drugs, such as the weight loss drugs semaglutide and tirzepatide, could have a “significant” impact on GPs’ workload, ...