Police investigating the deaths of hundreds of patients who died after being given opioid painkillers at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire have identified 24 suspects. Police told families ...

Physician associates (PAs) must only see patients in general practice who have been triaged by a GP and only undertake work delegated to them, and agreed with, their named GP supervisor, says new ...

Large language models have the potential to enhance equitable access to health information, but their poor performance in some languages could exacerbate the digital divide in healthcare, say Arthur ...

Regulation and monitoring are needed to prevent harmful bias in AI tools Artificial intelligence (AI) could help achieve global health equity by extending efficient and cost effective healthcare to ...

All lead pipes on public land in the US will be replaced by 2037 under a new rule established by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Biden administration has announced. The new rule also ...

Disparities in access to healthcare in England for some patient groups have been made clear in a large analysis published today by two think tanks. People from the most deprived areas are much more ...

The BMA has urged the government to extend the January deadline for doctors affected by the McCloud age discrimination judgment to determine their tax position, because thousands of doctors have not ...

Over a three year period nearly 90 000 people with a severe mental illness (SMI) have died from physical health conditions that could have been prevented, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that Texas hospitals can continue to deny emergency abortion care to women experiencing miscarriages, despite a federal law that requires hospitals to care for people in ...

Climate change is altering the world we live in, and children are particularly affected, write Tobias Alfvén and Zulfi Bhutta This summer, new temperature records were set all around the world, ...

The BMA is calling on the UK government to increase the amount of core funding that general practices get for each patient, by 11p to 42p a day, as a “significant first step” towards ending GPs’ ...

India has eliminated trachoma—one of the world’s leading causes of blindness—60 years after the country’s ministry of health first launched control initiatives, the World Health Organization (WHO) has ...