As public health officials warn about rising emissions from urban wood burning, a BMJ investigation finds that just under a third of councils in high use areas have faced pressure from the stove ...

Clinical trials and equitable care pathways are needed to build on early evidence of benefit Substance use disorders (SUDs) are common and burdensome for patients, families, and health systems,12 yet ...

Despite 31 years of international Conference of the Parties (COP) negotiations to tackle climate change, greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise—by 1.1% last year alone.1 Repeated ...

The safety of ChatGPT’s specifically trained healthcare AI has come into question after researchers found it had considerable and potentially dangerous flaws. ChatGPT Health is Open AI’s chatbot for ...

Weigl rightly argues that physician burnout undermines safe healthcare and should be tackled as a system problem rather than ...

Sweden’s drug watchdog has decided not to cover glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist semaglutide (Wegovy) because of concerns that the drug will be given to patients outside of the limited ...

Wellcome Collection Por um Fio ( By a Thread ) by the Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the works featuring in the Wellcome Collection’s upcoming exhibition The Coming of Age, ...

New research indicates that the levels of microplastics in humans and the environment may have been overestimated. So, should we still be concerned about their possible health effects? Katharine Lang ...

Siobhan Fennell describes how healthcare professionals’ compassion and understanding supported her with a long term condition I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1999. This finally ...

I found myself unusually narked this month. Not by a long night shift or a difficult airway, but by governance. I was trying ...

An interim order from the Supreme Court of Israel has temporarily stopped a ban on international humanitarian organisations providing aid and healthcare in Gaza. Israel previously informed 37 aid ...

Policy action lags behind growing evidence Microplastics have emerged as a serious environmental and public health concern in recent years. Initially regarded as an environmental problem affecting ...