It was a familiar scene in the lead-up to Christmas: husbands looking lost in highly perfumed, dazzlingly lit shops. An expensive lipstick or cashmere scarf, seldom actually wanted, was bought as a ...

As medical statisticians, we welcome revisions to the Declaration of Helsinki emphasising the importance of appropriate methods to reduce research waste.1 The declaration now states that rigorous ...

The 1990s were characterised by a rise in teenage smoking rates. Nostalgia for that decade shouldn’t see us undo progress against this public health threat, writes Caroline Cerny The 1990s are firmly ...

The prime minister, Keir Starmer, has unveiled new plans to radically transform the NHS in a bid to cut waiting lists.1 One new element is the promise that GPs will be able to order more tests ...

Authors, institutions, funders, and editors must be alert to the dangers A growing number of entities misrepresent themselves as scholarly journals for financial gain despite not meeting scholarly ...

Improving the NHS has to be weighed alongside improving population health Two narratives emerged from Wes Streeting’s first appearance before the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee on ...

The NHS will never work properly unless the government acts on social care, writes Richard Humphries After six months in power, the UK government has finally set out how it intends to tackle the ...

GPs are to be paid a £20 fee for each call they make to a hospital specialist seeking to speed up treatment as part of a new drive to cut England’s elective care waiting lists. The government launched ...

The government has announced several measures to cut waiting times for NHS elective treatment in England, including expanding community diagnostic centres, creating 14 new surgical hubs, and ...

Alcoholic drinks should carry warnings about cancer risk like those that appear on cigarette packets because of the direct link between alcohol use and increased risk of at least seven types of cancer ...

Managing effects of climate change will have positive outcomes for health Prolonged debate on the terms of the pandemic treaty has highlighted the differences in how to tackle our global health ...

Headlines expressed shock and condemnation of the killing of a health insurance executive in New York. But public comment has been very different. Owen Dyer reports One should not speak ill of the ...