More than 40 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in an air attack on a hospital in Sudan, where civil war has raged for two years. The dead included six children and five health workers.

Women in England who have not turned up or accepted invitations for routine cervical cancer screening will be offered home testing kits from next year in a drive to improve screening rates and reduce ...

When it comes to protecting patients from ill health, neglect, or bureaucratic misjudgment, it helps to have a fighter on your side. Scotland had Matthew Dunnigan, an innovative consultant physician ...

Raymond Kay describes living with agoraphobia and how he might be better supported in healthcare settings I first experienced agoraphobia more than 40 years ago, when I had a choking sensation that ...

Vaccine hesitancy may not be as big a factor as poor access, new research finds. Emma Wilkinson looks at what NHS organisations are doing to make it easier for parents to get their children immunised ...

The first meeting of the US vaccine advisory committee since all previous members were fired is attracting controversy before it has even begun. On 24 June, two days before the Centers for Disease ...

BMA representatives have voted to support GPs who refuse to prescribe medicines for hospital patients unless the GP has been properly informed and the treatment has been started and stabilised in ...

Spain’s ministry of health has asked Novo Nordisk for clarification about a controversial obesity awareness campaign which may have broken the country’s law on promoting prescription drugs. The ...

US decision makers must lean on evidence to support better maternal outcomes for women—and that means reversing abortion bans, writes Abebe Shibru I read with dismay and devastation a recent report ...

Eleven days of direct military conflict between Israel and Iran has severely damaged hospitals and wounded medical staff on both sides, in a region where healthcare was already under severe strain.

NHS staff working in overstretched mental health and paediatric services are reporting high levels of stress, burnout, and emotional strain as they struggle to protect care standards. The Royal ...

Long standing litigation against Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, over the addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin (oxycodone) seems to be resolved with a $7.4bn (£5.84bn; €6.38bn) ...