NHS doctors could soon be supported by “AI assistants” while doing bowel examinations, after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) conditionally approved five AI tools that act ...

Gareth Rees was one of two brothers who were born and raised in rural Carmarthenshire, the son of a local schoolmaster and a nurse. At grammar school in Llandovery Gareth excelled both academically ...

A man in the US state of Washington has contracted bird flu in what is the first known human case of the H5N5 strain of the viral disease.1 It is also the first human case of any bird flu recorded in ...

UK risks crisis from rising ill health One in five working age adults in the UK are now unfit to work because of ill health, a government report warned. Rising sickness levels mean that the nation ...

Thousands of locally employed doctors—many of them international graduates and from ethnic minorities—are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national ...

The first men’s health strategy for England will focus on suicide prevention, alcohol misuse, and gambling problems to help tackle “inequalities and hardships” that men face, the UK government has ...

The rising number of private antibiotic prescriptions is making it increasingly difficult for the UK to tackle the threat of antimicrobial resistance, a top medical adviser has warned. Speaking at the ...

Ministers must expand HIV testing to settings such as general practices, abortion clinics, women’s health hubs, cervical screening centres, and sexual health clinics, MPs have said. The House of ...

This author describes what it is like to live with chronic hemiplegic migraine, and her search for support It took decades for me to receive a diagnosis of chronic migraine, hemiplegic phenotype, with ...

The ultraprocessed food (UPF) industry is “mirroring the political playbook used by tobacco, alcohol, and fossil fuel companies” to try to influence government policies, experts have warned.1 ...

People with a learning disability die prematurely: on average women in this group die 23 years younger than those in the general population, men 19 years younger.1 In 2022, 42% of these deaths were ...

Wes Streeting’s meddling in the case of Rahmeh Aladwan obstructs justice and is an ineffective way to challenge racism, writes Aneez Esmail Rahmeh Aladwan is a British Palestinian doctor, currently ...