After 3 years of disagreement, the British Medical Association has accepted the Government's offer of better pay and more training for resident doctors. Talha Burki reports.

The fifth UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS (June 22–23) saw the agreement of a new Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS. In it, countries expressed commitments to end AIDS as a public health threat by ...

Proponents say the traditional Pacific Island drink is basically harmless. Critics say the story is less simple, pointing to potential health risks. Chris McCall reports.

Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone is an entrant into an already crowded and increasingly polarised ...

Andrew Green's World Report1 on the African Medicines Agency (AMA) highlights both its promise and the considerable challenges ahead in harmonising regulatory systems, strengthening national ...

In 1994 Maggie Keswick Jencks wrote of hospital architecture: “most hospital environments say to the patient, in effect: ‘How you feel is unimportant. You are not of value. Fit in with us, not us with ...

Pioneering public health historian. Born on March 13, 1947, in New York, NY, USA, he died on May 24, 2026, in New York, aged 79 years.

In their recent Article,1 Veronica Pentland and colleagues present a systematic review and meta-analysis of 29 clinical studies and eight national joint registries, encompassing more than 1·9 million ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) health-care technologies offer a means of addressing the growing gap between health-care ...

Inherited retinal degenerations are a diverse group of genetic disorders that result in progressive vision loss. Advances in ...

Within hours of Donald Trump's second inauguration as US President in January, 2025, he suspended programmes supported by the ...

Against a backdrop of insufficient access to hospice care in the UK, these photographs are both document and intervention.