The UK government is failing to measure the “true cost of inaction on social care” and the harms a broken system is causing to the country and the NHS, MPs have warned. They said that, unless this ...

Efforts to reduce health inequalities worldwide are not working fast enough, and health gap reduction targets set almost 20 years ago are likely to be missed, the World Health Organisation has warned.

Iran’s medical training system is facing a rash of suicides, depression, and burnout, with increasing numbers of newly trained physicians leaving the country. Mohammad Saeed Gharaati Jahromi reports ...

An alliance of regional African leadership and oversight of resource extraction is essential to promote stability, write Faraan O Rahim and coauthors On 25 April 2025, foreign ministers from ...

Outpatient care has been overlooked in policy and planning. The upcoming 10 year plan for health is an opportunity to rethink and reform the system, writes Theresa Barnes . Every day, I see patients ...

This third article in a seven part series presents the Core GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach to deciding whether to rate down certainty of evidence ...

Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale” was the rallying cry of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), published in 2008.1 It remains appropriate to the World Health ...

Women living in US states that have abortion bans, such as Louisiana or Texas, are almost at twice the risk of dying during pregnancy, childbirth, or shortly after giving birth than women in states ...

1 Research Department of Practice and Policy, School of Pharmacy, University College London, London, UK 2 Centre for Medicines Optimisation Research and Education, University College London Hospitals ...

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We have made great improvements in treating cancer. I have friends, and probably you do as well, who are still alive with cancers that just a few years ago would have quickly killed them. They have ...

Healthcare leaders and campaigners have warned that the withdrawal of ringfenced central funding for England’s maternity services will severely undermine efforts to improve safety. Analysis by the ...