When Charles Easmon decided to pursue a career in medical microbiology in the 1970s, many of his contemporaries were baffled.

A man fired 180 shots at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta on 8 August, while ...

NHS England has launched an online service to increase the number of pregnant women in England who directly book a first ...

The development of new medical treatments is being undermined by excluding older people from clinical research, UK charities ...

A year after Australia severely restricted the sale of e-cigarettes, vaping seems to be declining among adolescents. But ...

The World Health Organization needs to develop tech specific governance and accountability frameworks, argue Ilona Kickbusch ...

Dr Padmanabhan Badrinath, Freelance consultant in Public Health Medicine, Colchester, UK ...

As we witness the US health department share data with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency, and as we see increasing policing and securitisation infiltrate healthcare, we cannot be ...

Staff working in hospital emergency departments have reported being punched, spat at, and threatened with guns and acid amid a rise in violence across England.1 Freedom of information (FOI) requests ...

Great Ormond Street Hospital’s (GOSH) use of physician associates (PAs) to fill gaps in its surgical rota raises concerns ...

In an era where pandemics and rapidly evolving technologies dominate public discourse, the role of evidence based action has ...

The global health community has an important role in reducing global inequities and working towards food security for all, ...