Carlos Dora and colleagues argue that primary healthcare systems in cities are vital for creating resilient and equitable responses to climate change The chapter on cities, settlements, and ...

A new ethics for health that is adequate to tackling the climate crisis is needed—but obligations must be specified carefully In 2023, scientists at Stockholm University quantified all nine processes ...

Weeks after I moved to the California Bay Area, I woke up to smoky skies. It was autumn of 2017, and on my bike to work at HuffPost ’s downtown San Francisco office, I pedalled past people with ...

Our ability to ameliorate the adverse impacts of climate change on health is dependent on our ability to educate ourselves, and we must move faster. The severity of climate related health risks is ...

At a population level, adding fluoride to drinking water may have less of an effect than it used to, researchers have concluded. A detailed Cochrane review by UK researchers concluded that the benefit ...

A former GP has been jailed for 22 years for a string of indecent assaults of female patients between 1988 and 1997. Judge Sarah Campbell told Stephen Cox at Reading Crown Court, “Doctors are among ...

When Stuart Stanton trained to be a gynaecologist, treatment for women with stress incontinence was barely a consideration. Women had been suffering in silence for years but rarely approached doctors ...

Mike Hale grew up in Oldbury, West Midlands, and was head boy at Halesowen Grammar School where he excelled at rugby. He studied medicine at Cardiff University where he was also active in the ...

Russell Ballantyne was born in Motherwell and studied medicine at Glasgow University. Here he met fellow medical student, Mary McArthur, to whom he was married for 59 years. After national service as ...

Ireland based pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences has said it will grant licences to six generic manufacturers to produce low cost lenacapavir, which has shown unprecedented efficacy at preventing ...

Breast cancer cases among US women rose every year from 2012 to 2021, especially among women under 50. The number of deaths has, however, dropped by about 10% in the past decade, according to two ...

Coded general practice data about patients in England will soon be able to be shared with approved research groups, the government has announced. Researchers have called it a “momentous step” that ...