May is a time to elevate mental health awareness. In the USA, May is designated as Mental Health Awareness Month; Europe marks Mental Health Week (May 4–8); and the UK observes Mental Health Awareness ...

Human-in-the-loop oversight is widely invoked as a safeguard against potential harm from artificial intelligence (AI) used in ...

The USA currently faces its largest measles outbreak in decades, with 2280 confirmed cases in 2025 and 910 additional cases ...

For generations, harsh or humiliating language directed at children has been minimised as “just words”, framed as discipline, or justified as character-building. Many of us grew up in the UK learning, ...

In 2026, cervical cancer remains a stark reminder of global health inequity, with women in low-income countries and ...

For premenopausal women with ER-positive early breast cancer, even if chemotherapy or tamoxifen are given, OFS significantly reduces the 15-year risk of recurrence and death.

Worldwide inequalities in cervical cancer have been projected to increase dramatically without enhanced HPV prevention strategies. Reaching WHO vaccination and screening elimination targets or ...

Being a neat, fastidious writer, it is fitting that Julian Barnes chose to publish his fifteenth and final novel Departure(s) on his 80th birthday. When asked by the BBC Radio 4 presenter John Wilson ...

Kwame, a 60-year-old man living 30 miles from Kumasi in Ghana, worked as a farmer and financially supported his wife, three children, and large extended family. He had always been physically fit and ...

May 7 elections will likely see political change in Wales. With long waiting lists and concerns over staffing, what are the major parties promising to do? Chloe Wilson reports.

As a child, Amita Aggarwal, clinical immunologist and rheumatologist, and the Executive Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bibinagar, India, recalls living in many places.

At its 158th Executive Board, the Director-General of WHO presented a report outlining global indicators to monitor the integration of rehabilitation into health systems.1 The indicators were selected ...