The Pan American Health Organization is calling for countries across the Americas to ramp up vaccination and surveillance against yellow fever, having recorded an eightfold rise in cases of the highly ...

Paediatricians from all over the world—including many from India and Pakistan—assembled in Mexico City last week at the biennial International Congress of Pediatrics. They convened just as India and ...

Freddie Stening shares the challenges he faced while coming to terms with his wife’s unexpected death Georgina, my wife of 57 years, passed away in January 2024. Her death came as a big shock to the ...

I led sessions at the recent flagship conference of the Medical Women’s Federation with the theme “Redefining health—with women doctors.” A panel of representatives from 18 medical advocacy groups ...

A fresh 10 year plan to put the NHS on the road to recovery was promised for this spring, but we’re at the tail end of May and there’s no sign of it. The main themes have been widely trailed, with a ...

It is a frenzied time for UK health policy. NHS England is set to be abolished, amid an emerging 10 year plan, and every UK country faces difficult financial situations. This is set against two ...

Healthy pregnant women and healthy children should no longer receive covid-19 vaccinations, the US health secretary announced on 27 May. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the head of the Department of Health and ...

Industry body’s decision to accept Novo Nordisk back reflects systemic failures The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is one of the UK’s most powerful lobby groups, ...

I taught an exceptionally bright young GP on a course. She seemed to grasp the values of the specialty intuitively. I hadn’t heard news of her for a while, but I discovered recently that she runs a ...

In his 2023 memoir Michael Hession wrote that he had been an individual of many parts: doctor, medical and political activist, publisher, photographer, pilot, skier, cellist, farmer, concert promoter, ...

Stephen was born in Audenshaw, Manchester, in 1940. After attending Hulme Grammar School for Boys in Oldham he attained a place at Edinburgh University School of Medicine, qualifying in 1965. After ...

A controversial Israel and US backed organisation, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), says it has begun to distribute an unspecified amount of aid in Gaza, despite its executive director resigning ...