Staff at the US National Institutes of Health have been ordered to review all ongoing and proposed research for compliance ...

Manufacturers have been told to reduce sugar and salt in commercial baby foods in the UK, but experts and campaigners have ...

Health workers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other government health agencies have told ...

Treatment should be based on medical need not risk control The independent sentencing review, led by former lord chancellor ...

Waes hael was an Anglo-Saxon greeting meaning be whole or be healthy. From this is derived the modern word health. Paul said ...

Napier attended Worksop College before winning a scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge, to read medicine. After ...

Chris was born in Middlesbrough on 11 November 1960, to Judith Ann and Donald Rigg, and grew up in Stockton-on-Tees. He ...

The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) has issued its own childhood vaccination schedule, including a recommendation for children to receive the covid-19 vaccine, in a major split with the US ...

More than half a million people in Gaza are now “trapped in famine,” as food and clean water continue to be used as weapons of war as part of Israel’s “genocidal campaign,” aid agencies have said. The ...

The BMA has called on NHS England to tell general practices that physician assistants (PAs), previously known as physician associates, must not see undifferentiated patients, as recommended in the ...

A new multimillion pound programme to test new obesity services and treatments, funded in part by the weight loss drug manufacturer Eli Lilly, could be seen as “marketing by another name,” public ...

Recent years have seen the emergence of research integrity sleuths, who devote time to detecting misconduct in academic research publications, a major source of which comes from paper mills, ...