The current wave of measles cases in the US provides an opportunity to see what the disease does to the unvaccinated, the new head of the government’s vaccine advisory group says. In a wide ranging ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will share details of its Palestinian staff with Israel in order to keep working in Gaza and the West Bank, the charity has said. Despite previously refusing to share ...

Palestinians have described being raped, beaten, and attacked by dogs at the hands of prison staff in a graphic new report by Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem.1 The Israel Prison Service ...

NHS England is to lower the detection threshold for a home screening kit to trigger bowel cancer screening from next month in a move it says will lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment for thousands ...

The UK has lost its measles elimination certification after the disease circulated continuously for more than a year. Outbreaks began in late 2023 and intensified through 2024, with a total of 2911 ...

US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain illegal immigrants. The revelation comes as the US’s ...

Trust has always been central to healthcare and is especially important in the relationship between clinicians and patients. But trust is not automatic. It is shaped by the actions and decisions, ...

Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a rare chronic autoimmune cholangiopathy that mainly affects middle-aged women, ...

Evaluation and medical management of poisoning is often aided by laboratory tests. These range from basic analyses used ...

Crowding in emergency departments (EDs) is a familiar problem across health systems around the world. In most countries, the ...

Introduction One of the challenges in managing patients with hantavirus infection is accurately identifying individuals who are at risk of developing severe disease. Prompt identification of these ...

Objective China has a high disease burden of low bone mass, and elderly men with excessive alcohol consumption may be underdiagnosed and undertreated given the adverse effects on skeletal health. This ...