The complete lack of specialist care in England for patients with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME or chronic fatigue syndrome) could cause deaths in future unless urgent action is taken, a ...

Adopting a more evidence based approach to commissioning health prevention services could yield a bigger return on investment (ROI) each year, an analysis1 has suggested. The report by the NHS ...

A Finnish neurologist is taking an innovative approach to health through a unique role and project. Elisabeth Mahase reports In 2021, Hanna Haveri became Finland’s first planetary health physician, a ...

Lionel was born above the family’s menswear shop in Poplar, east London. He read medicine at Christ’s College Cambridge and completed his clinical training at Guy’s Hospital. As a student he loved ...

Kirsty Brown shares her experience of undergoing surgery as a person with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and explains some of the ways that health professionals could help others ...

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 ...

For many of us working in health systems across the world, what connects us is the motivation to help—to care for and improve the health of individuals, communities, and wider society. Because a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...