Teenage pregnancies in Brazil have been stubbornly high for decades, but a range of efforts to tackle this inequality are ...

Argentina will leave the World Health Organization, President Javier Milei has confirmed, as he announced a series of radical ...

Urgent legislative action is needed to protect minors Areca nut, also known as betel nut, is the fibrous seed of the Areca ...

Parents’ or other carers’ concerns may be a better indicator that a child in hospital is deteriorating than certain ...

Consumption of alcoholic drinks may raise the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a large international study.

This woman in her early 30s with an 11 year history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) experienced a sudden disease ...

Health services are struggling to maintain progress made over decades in reducing the incidence of preventable illnesses.

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said during a podcast interview that the Trump administration will stop government ...

A major World Health Organization hub that provides surveillance of polio and other diseases in India is set to close. Doctors working for WHO’s National Public Health Support Network (NPSN) say that ...

The retired French surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing 299 patients, most of them minors, in hospitals in western France from 1989 to 2014. The ...

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has published the first major report under his “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) initiative, ambitiously claiming, “During this administration, we will begin ...

The rapid expansion of physician associates (PAs) and other medical associate professional roles has prompted renewed debate about what constitutes adequate supervision for NHS clinical staff.