Hochul signed the bill days after New York doctor Margaret Carpenter was indicted on criminal charges in Louisiana for providing an illegal abortion with mailed medication abortion pills that were ...

Declining US drug overdose deaths show that public health approaches work The US overdose crisis contributed to over 100 000 deaths in 2023.1 The 22% decrease in overdose deaths between August 2023 ...

Alistair Rennie was born on the southside of Glasgow. He attended the local primary and secondary schools, where he did well. He went on to Glasgow University to study medicine but also continued with ...

Allison John and Rocky When Allison John was 13 and watching the science programme Tomorrow’s World , a segment on gene therapy came up. This was cutting edge stuff in the early 1990s and John had ...

The BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee in England has voted to go into dispute with the government over a lack of progress in progressing non-pay elements of their 2024 pay deal. The dispute between ...

First generation cephalosporins (Cefadroxil, Cefalexin, Cefazolin, and Cefradine) can now be used as first line treatments in the UK after an update from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).1 The ...

Lifesaving services that rely on money from the US government have shut their doors and laid off staff after President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a freeze on foreign aid, agencies ...

The number of targets for the NHS in England are to be halved in the coming financial year, from 32 to 18, in an attempt to focus on reducing waiting times. NHS England’s plans have had a mixed ...

The UK was “navigating a middle path” between the US and Europe when it came to integrating artificial intelligence into healthcare and regulating its use, Dominic Cushnan, deputy director for AI at ...

Many of us working in healthcare also experience “eco-anxiety,”1 a type of moral injury heightened by the dissonance and illogicality of delivering healthcare in a vacuum. Despite the NHS net zero ...

More than 8000 US government websites were taken down last week after all government departments and agencies were ordered to on Wednesday 29 January to “end all agency programs that use taxpayer ...