The latest infant mortality data for England and Wales continue to show a stark difference between the most and least deprived areas and between ethnic groups. There were 2320 infant deaths (aged ...

The team responsible for managing the United States’ national guidance on safe and effective use of contraception has been dismissed, causing concern that an essential public health resource could be ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA), after initial rejection based on an unfavourable risk-benefit balance, recently recommended approval of lecanemab for treating people with mild cognitive ...

Short term trials with surrogate measures instead of hard outcomes are often used to study chronic diseases. The effects of an intervention may, however, take time to develop and persist after ...

Huaiyu Tian and colleagues argue that to improve sustainable malaria control and reduce the risk of disease resurgence, targeted interventions can be optimised for eliminating malaria in areas ...

Improving people’s experiences during and between care episodes and reducing the fear and harm associated with long waits can restore public satisfaction in the NHS, writes Chris Graham Since the ...

Qiyong Liu and colleagues consider the experience of basic malaria elimination, resurgence, and re-elimination in the Huai River Basin in central China, as well as lessons learnt to help to inform ...

A group of expert neurologists have expressed concerns at the European Commission’s (EC) decision to formally approve the Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab (Leqembi) despite uncertain benefits. Lecanemab, ...

Qiyong Liu and colleagues revisit the strategies and measures adopted in China to control and eliminate malaria and discuss what can be learnt from its elimination Malaria is a mosquito-borne ...

Harvard University has defied demands from US president Donald Trump for control over academic decision making and instead sued his administration, charging it with violating the university’s ...

GP Bryony Kendall talks to Helen Jones about her role on NICE women’s and reproductive health guidelines committee “I always wanted to be a doctor, and it’s such a privilege and a joy to be a GP and ...

Sixty years ago cystic fibrosis was practically a death sentence, but the remarkable progress of science and medicine means that people with the condition can live into their 60s. What new health ...