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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dear Editor, The pandemic alarm raised by the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) virus is mainly justified by the progressively growing number of virus-susceptible d ...
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Budget 2025: Progress on child poverty but a stronger whole-system health strategy is still required
Your coverage of Budget 2025 highlights the mix of fiscal measures and the absence of additional NHS revenue funding (1). From a public health policy perspective, the Budget contains several welcome ...
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 ...
The UK National Screening Committee has advised against routine screening for prostate cancer with the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test, saying that the harms would outweigh the benefits.
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