Health workers, including doctors and other staff, staged a strike in Rome on 20 November in protest at proposals set out in the government’s budget. Anaao Assomed, Italy’s biggest trade union for ...

Of the various types of academic misdemeanours and felonies, perhaps plagiarism is the most difficult and complex to study and write about. Even defining it is difficult. The US Office of Research ...

Breast cancer charities and patients are “devastated” that the drug Enhertu will not be available in England and Wales after negotiations collapsed over pricing. Jacqui Wise examines calls for NICE to ...

The inquiry has heard further testimony from former ministers on the effect of the pandemic on UK healthcare systems. Jacqui Wise , Matthew Limb , and Gareth Iacobucci summarise some of the key ...

Around 2000 claimants in the UK are proposing to take legal action against Johnson & Johnson over claims that its talcum powder products caused cancer. The law firm KP Law has sent a letter before ...

We need to redesign social media and other digital platforms so that these spaces are safer and healthier, writes Louise Holly Across the globe, countries are grabbling with how to shield children ...

The response to the Olympian’s call for wider access to prostate cancer screening has been largely uncritical, Margaret McCartney finds Media coverage has been rightly sympathetic to Chris Hoy, one of ...

The temptations of doctors to act inappropriately are many and well documented. They include, among others, the temptation to put financial gain before patient wellbeing, to cut corners to reduce ...

Measures of performance need to be meaningful The secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Streeting, has announced NHS league tables to guarantee “no more rewards for failure” in UK ...

The life expectancy gap across different US population groups grew from 12.6 years in 2000 to 20.4 years in 2021, a study has found, showing an increase in racial and geographic health disparities ...

US president elect Donald Trump has nominated Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and television celebrity doctor to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a large federal agency ...

Distrust in science underpins the new administration The second term of office of US president elect Donald Trump looks set ...