The UK government is to press ahead with adding folic acid to flour to try to prevent hundreds of babies each year from being born with neural tube defects. Folic acid deficiency is a leading cause of ...

A House of Lords committee has called on the government and NHS England to act to reduce preterm births and provide greater support for the parents of babies born before 37 weeks. The Preterm Birth ...

On 6 November Donald Trump was re-elected president of the United States after an election campaign characterised by fear, lies, and disinformation. Trump’s campaign featured his insistence that he ...

Benjamin Goodair and colleagues argue that growth of private provision in adult social care in England has resulted in worse care and should be rolled back Adult social care in England is in crisis.

A Canadian adolescent is in a critical condition in a British Columbia hospital after becoming infected with a new genotype of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The patient, who has not ...

Meaningful progress to mitigate the climate crisis and improve health systems will only be possible with a commitment to equity, justice, and inclusion, say Arthur Ng’etich and colleagues As the 29th ...

Nichols and colleagues describe the use of reusable devices for applying cold sensation when assessing regional anaesthesia.1 I find the concept of these reusable devices commendable, but perhaps ...

Davide Bonaldo/SOPA/Sipa/Alamy The devastating power and impact of the flash floods that swept through eastern Spain from 29 October is captured in this image from the city of Valencia. More than 200 ...

At one of my first meetings as an elected council member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, we approved a report called Access All Ages . It encouraged less ageist thinking and bias among ...

An employment judge has cleared the way for Farah Jameel, a former chair of the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee for England (GPCE), to go ahead with claims of discrimination and unfair dismissal ...

NHS staff felt the “strain and the trauma” of having to look after patients with covid-19 whose close family and relatives could not be there to offer support, NHS England’s national medical director ...

Varenicline, a daily pill that reduces cravings for nicotine and helps with withdrawal symptoms, will now be offered to tens of thousands of people who smoke in England, NHS England chief executive ...