At a conference in Hong Kong last year almost every presentation enthused about the potential of artificial intelligence. The conference wasn’t even about AI, the great global hope to solve every ...

The United Nations aid chief has rebuked Israel’s proposed new plan for militarily controlled aid distribution for Gaza, describing it as a “fig leaf for further violence and displacement” of ...

MPs have criticised the lack of a clear plan for the forthcoming abolition of NHS England and the halving of staff in integrated care boards across the country, demanding that the government set out ...

The US health secretary’s campaign slogan echoed that of his boss, Donald Trump. But what does Robert F Kennedy Jr mean by “Make America Healthy Again”—and can he succeed? Simon Williams reports ...

Mitochondria have their own genome and it’s thought that they evolved from free-living bacteria engulfed by eukaryotic cells. Far from being static, these intracellular organelles have recently been ...

In a world strained by division, Canada’s balanced approach to globalism and populism may be just what global health needs, write Roojin Habibi and Kumanan Wilson “If the United States does not want ...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has said that it cannot support proposed legislation in its current form that would make assisted dying legal in England and Wales. The college issued a briefing on ...

In early April 2020, staff at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust gathered to prepare for the wave of covid-19 patients they knew were coming their way. The UK’s first lockdown had been announced a ...

A report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Doctors of the World UK (DOTW) has called for the closure of Wethersfield, a site that houses male asylum seekers, because of its unsuitability and the ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research There’s certainly a gap in the market for an effective third or fourth line antihypertensive. A trial of lorundrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, found a ...

Higginson and Ramjeeawon emphasise the importance of timely, multiprofessional, skilled palliative care to improve outcomes for patients and carers.1 They touch on the need to ensure that the ...

I visited China for the first time. I was there to teach narrative medicine—what health professionals can learn through listening to people’s stories and how much difference this can make to medical ...