When Charles Easmon decided to pursue a career in medical microbiology in the 1970s, many of his contemporaries were baffled.

A man fired 180 shots at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta on 8 August, while ...

NHS England has launched an online service to increase the number of pregnant women in England who directly book a first ...

The development of new medical treatments is being undermined by excluding older people from clinical research, UK charities ...

A year after Australia severely restricted the sale of e-cigarettes, vaping seems to be declining among adolescents. But ...

The World Health Organization needs to develop tech specific governance and accountability frameworks, argue Ilona Kickbusch ...

Staff working in hospital emergency departments have reported being punched, spat at, and threatened with guns and acid amid a rise in violence across England.1 Freedom of information (FOI) requests ...

More than 500 paediatricians and child health experts have accused the UK’s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health ...

Great Ormond Street Hospital’s (GOSH) use of physician associates (PAs) to fill gaps in its surgical rota raises concerns ...

Amid spiralling rates of TB in prisons, the UK looks set to lose its WHO low incidence rate. Kate Bowie reports Consumption ...

The number of GPs completing training this year has risen sharply when compared with recent years, but the profession’s ...

NHS staff are increasingly reporting inappropriate filming by the public. Elisabeth Mahase hears what they can do Alan ...