Owen Davies/Getty A striking installation of 10 venomous snakes has taken over Geneva this month, during the World Health Assembly, including this one, called Bitten Twice , created in the colours of ...

A controversial Israel and US backed organisation, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), says it has begun to distribute an unspecified amount of aid in Gaza, despite its executive director resigning ...

History is written in real time. But with figures such as Donald Trump and Elon Musk casting themselves as main characters in some dystopian blockbuster, it feels more surreal than ever. Their ...

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and officials from departments for agriculture, housing, and urban development, as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, have set out their ...

A new round of industrial action to protest over doctors’ pay in England is being considered, with the BMA starting to issue ballot papers to its resident doctor members. The BMA is asking them to ...

Richard Lilford and colleagues argue that the UK government’s plans to use performance metrics to reward or punish hospitals risk doing more harm than good Healthcare consumes a lot of resources and ...

Early detection and proactive medicine are often equated with better care—but Suzanne O’Sullivan begs to differ The Age of Diagnosis ,1 a new book by Suzanne O’Sullivan—neurologist, clinical ...

Technology can support personalised care Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity (40%) and mortality in China.1 The increasing incidence of risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, ...

Proposals to give medical practitioners the same power as the police to detain people who are experiencing a mental health crisis have been rejected by a group of health and social care organisations.

The seventh module of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry is focusing on the “test, trace, and isolate” system. Adrian O’Dowd and Gareth Iacobucci summarise the latest developments The former health secretary ...

McCartney says that doctors shouldn’t be “prescribing” parkrun.1 Let’s not get caught up in the terminology, although perhaps the expression “community referral” might be more appropriate in some ...

Malcolm was born in 1935 in Guildford but grew up in Moreton in Marsh during the second world war. Surviving nearby Luftwaffe bombs, he was made of stern stuff. His father had left the family farm in ...