A former consultant colorectal surgeon has been struck off the UK medical register for concocting multiple fake medical ...

Consider preparation method and replacement food when assessing health risks The potato is a carbohydrate rich tuberous ...

Nearly 8000 people in southern China have fallen ill with chikungunya since mid-June, officials have said, although the ...

A new report has catalogued hundreds of alleged human rights abuses in US immigration detention centres, including physical ...

The NHS hospital where the neonatal nurse Lucy Letby worked has been censured by England’s healthcare regulator over failings ...

World Athletics has said that all athletes wishing to compete in the female category will have to take an SRY gene test, but ...

Melatonin, the hormone that regulates sleep-wake cycles, is increasingly used as a sleep aid for children. But does it work, ...

One third of doctors are looking to leave the UK medical profession, and nearly half of those are taking serious steps ...

In my 30 years as an orthopaedic surgeon, the types of broken bones we see in hospitals have changed remarkably. We used to ...

Early stage colorectal cancer diagnoses in 45-49 year olds in the United States have risen sharply after changes to national ...

GPs should report all incorrect or misleading results from artificial intelligence (AI) tools used in clinical practice, the UK medicine regulator has urged. The Medicines and Healthcare Products ...

People lost twice as much weight when eating a minimally processed diet as with an ultraprocessed diet, even when eating nutritionally matched foods, a study published in Nature Medicine has reported.