Helen Jackson gently asked patients who arrived at the clinic where she practised in Malé, the capital of the Maldives, “Haalu kihineh? Rangalhu tha?”—“How are you? Are you okay?” Primary care is held ...

What you need to know James is a 16 year old boy who lives in a residential (children’s) home. Over the past two months, he has regularly gone missing, returning with new clothes and a new smartphone ...

Tolu Oni and colleagues argue that building healthy low carbon transport infrastructure in Africa’s rapidly growing cities requires addressing historical contexts, confronting power imbalances, and ...

Standardising practice can improve identification and reduce bias Even for the most experienced healthcare providers, recognising and evaluating suspected child maltreatment or exploitation is ...

Donald Trump is the new US president after an ill tempered campaign that saw abortion dominate on the Democratic side but healthcare a minor part of the overall election discourse. Joanne Silberner ...

In this episode of Sharp Scratch, the panel got together to discuss the many reasons why someone might take time out of medical school. They reflected on how decisions to take time out are often ...

Access to the UK’s rich and vast banks of health data should be streamlined and simplified, to capitalise on the unique opportunity it offers to boost biomedical research and improve lives, a major ...

The Medical Protection Society has called for all NHS trust staff who deal with disciplinary investigations to have specialised training, to ensure that doctors are treated fairly and compassionately, ...

Toxicologists have warned of a sharp rise in drug overdose deaths in England involving a group of potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Nitazenes have been found as contaminants in street heroin ...

NICE has said it expects to evaluate dozens of potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease over the next few years. Elisabeth Mahase examines what we know about these drugs This year the National ...

A health scandal in which newborn babies were allowed to die for profit has cast a harsh light on Turkey’s growing reliance on private hospitals. Eleven private hospitals in and around Istanbul have ...

Over 100 governments at a United Nations event in Colombia have committed to ending violence against children, including through banning corporal punishment, improving services for the children ...