Whitty highlights key drivers of health misinformation and advocates a sense of optimism that, whilst still a serious public health issue, vaccine hesitancy does not result in MMR refusal for most of ...

Medical science has been remarkably successful over the past two centuries at preventing and curing what were once common ...

A drug rollout that officials hailed as a demonstration that the UK was still a “science superpower,” has reached only a ...

Deep seated problems facing Scotland’s NHS make the service unsustainable in its present form, a critical report from Audit Scotland has warned.1 Since 2019 extra funding of £3bn has been provided and ...

Two cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome related coronavirus (MERS-CoV) have been identified in France, the first for 12 ...

England is facing an “unprecedented flu wave,” with the NHS warning that up to 8000 hospital beds could be occupied by patients with flu by the end of next week. An average of 1717 patients were in ...

Walter Cannon’s classic description of “voodoo death” highlighted that extreme fear and narratives of curse can, via autonomic and circulatory pathways, lead to real death.² Contemporary nocebo ...

The number of published studies using the Delphi method has increased considerably in recent years. The Delphi method is now ...

Perineal injuries have been neglected and deprioritised, at the expense of women’s health and wellbeing, write Kathrine ...

Jeffrey was born in Leeds and grew up in Roundhay. He won a scholarship to study medicine at Leeds University and completed ...

Ruth Butler (née Heinsheimer) was born in Israel in 1945. She moved to London with her parents, Siegfried and Liesel, at the ...

Vaccine misinformation and disinformation, which has been increasing since the covid-19 pandemic, must be countered ...