Israel is preventing humanitarian aid from entering Gaza following the expiration of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement on Saturday 1 March. No aid trucks were allowed into Gaza on Sunday ...

Widespread fears over the meaning of the Trump administration’s January foreign aid freeze gave way to shock and despair this week as the US government permanently cancelled funding for nearly 10 000 ...

It’s time to move away from talking about “non-pharmaceutical interventions” The covid-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of public health interventions such as contact tracing. The expression ...

Electronic medical records (EMR) have transformed healthcare in the past two decades. Their introduction was pioneered by a handful of determined visionaries, led on the clinical side in the UK by the ...

Like many doctors working beyond retirement age, I now work for various institutions within the NHS and outside it, including universities. They’re all splendid organisations in many ways, but they ...

For the first time in four years, negotiations between the Department of Health and Social Care and GP representatives in England have resulted in agreed changes to the GP contract, rather than ...

Multifaceted actions are needed to better identify and challenge underlying patriarchal and socioeconomic factors affecting ...

Vani Sethi and colleagues highlight country efforts on evidence based policy making, strengthening implementation and ...

Vani Sethi and colleagues consider the barriers to implementing policies to improve the nutrition of adolescent girls in South Asia and how they can be overcome Poor nutrition among adolescent girls ...

The European Medicines Association (EMA) has upheld its decision to recommend the Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab despite concerns that any clinical benefits are small and there is a risk of brain swelling ...

Urgent action is required to tackle the rising prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescent girls in South Asia by improving food environments and countering the influence of powerful ...

Patients’ safety is being compromised because a growing number of doctors are feeling severely tired at work, medical defence experts have warned. The Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that longer ...