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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...