A widespread power outage affected much of Spain on Monday 28 April, disrupting key infrastructure and raising concerns over the resilience of healthcare services. In a late night statement the ...

Healthcare professionals should not perform female genital mutilation (FGM) as this legitimises the practice and hampers efforts to end it, the World Health Organization has said in new guidance.1 ...

One Easter in the 1970s Sheila Clark, a paediatrician working in Sheffield, was on a pilgrimage to the Catholic shrine at Lourdes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, when she joined a large group of ...

The US intersex health equity report is a step towards providing the bodily autonomy and health equity that intersex children and adults deserve, write Sam L Sharpe, Erika Lorshbough, and Marissa ...

Resident doctors from across the UK convened in London on 26 April for the BMA’s annual conference, where they discussed and debated training and scope creep, as well as the Supreme Court’s ruling on ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency plans to undo rules limiting air and water pollution from mining, drilling, and power generation. It will also no longer regulate greenhouse gases or try to ...

Rules on patient choice that govern cataract care in England are allowing private companies to make millions of pounds in profits from treating NHS patients and should be scrapped, campaigners have ...

Investing in the specialist workforce and overcoming access barriers is essential to successful delivery of this therapy in the NHS, write Jessie Enakhumhe and Yasmin Sheikh Casgevy, or exagamglogene ...

Jeng and colleagues examine the current landscape of nuclear threats, exploring the shortcomings of healthcare systems in preparing for nuclear strikes and the immense challenges of mass casualty ...

Sheena Asthana and colleagues consider how to realise the potential of digital health technologies to help older people maintain wellbeing and independence and reduce hospital demand The NHS faces a ...

Not enough GPs are in post to provide the care that patients want and need, and satisfaction with the service is at a record low.1 GPs feel overburdened for multiple reasons, and among them is a rise ...

We need to challenge racialised bias and myths to eliminate inequities in pain management, writes Anna Hood In healthcare systems such as the NHS, founded on the principles of equity and universality, ...