The NHS is once again abuzz with talk of private finance initiatives (PFIs). In the government’s budget,12 published on 26 November, chancellor Rachel Reeves outlined plans to use public-private ...
People in England will be able to order home HIV tests through the NHS app as part of a government trial to increase early diagnosis. The £5m pilot scheme forms part of the HIV Action Plan 2025 to ...
Oliver is right to caution that NHS league tables risk doing more harm than good.1 They may create an illusion of accountability, while also generating pressure that can demoralise staff, a familiar ...
Patients underwent unnecessary mastectomies or had cancer diagnoses delayed because of long running systemic failures at an NHS hospital trust, an independent review has found.1 A “culture of ...
What you need to know In England, 1 in 4 adults,1 and almost 1 in 4 children by the time they are 11 years old,2 are living with obesity (based on body mass index (BMI) measurements and classification ...
Yes, you heard it right. This is a growing skincare trend—made popular by celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston1—whereby people have DNA fragments taken from salmon sperm injected into their face, in ...
Doctors have a duty to act but there are many ways they can do so, Elisabeth Mahase hears Kathryn Leask, medicolegal adviser at the Medical Defence Union, says, “Hearing discriminatory comments would ...
The removal of a warning label on menopausal hormone therapies has been hailed as a win for a US advocacy campaign. But the origins of that campaign suggest industry is laying the groundwork for a ...
Matt Morgan shares some words that capture what medicine feels like when no ICD code will do Words matter. In medicine, they act as scalpel and suture. They are the only operating instruments we carry ...
Hospitalist programmes, initially introduced in the USA in the 1990s, have spread to other countries, including Canada, Australia, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, South Korea, and Switzerland, among ...
A trial of lenacapavir showed 100% protection against HIV infection. But cuts to foreign aid and criticism over its pricing put the brakes on a worldwide rollout. Elna Schütz asks if we’re now seeing ...
Adding fluoride to drinking water has no negative effect on cognitive ability and may even confer a small cognitive benefit, research has found.1 The finding comes as the public health practice of ...
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