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 ...

The Olympic athlete Chris Hoy who has terminal prostate cancer said he was "extremely disappointed and saddened", and Laura Kerby, chief executive of Prostate Cancer UK, was "deeply disappointed" and ...

Risk assessment must be proportionate to evidence. If ten suspected cases over three years warrant national alarm, surely the many thousands of children who each year suffer preventable, ...

Social media influencers are a popular source of health information to millions of people—and they are increasingly a more available and trusted source of help and advice than doctors. From global ...

Behind the UK’s “landmark” pharma deal with the US lies a costly surrender, with higher drug prices, weaker safeguards, and vague promises of investment, write Els Torreele and Martin McKee When the ...

Parents will be allowed to buy infant formula from UK supermarkets using loyalty points and vouchers in a bid to make it more affordable. Current regulations, which are designed to encourage ...

The UK government’s 10 year plan commits to targeting childhood obesity through a series of measures that seemingly ignores ultraprocessed foods (UPFs).12 Without promoting literacy and understanding ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Social media platforms are awash with influencers promoting cures for all ills. They often make claims that would breach advertising rules—particularly in the ...

Committee rejects routine screening The UK National Screening Committee advised against routine screening for prostate cancer with the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test, arguing that the ...

Improving health discourse needs attention to information environments where trust can grow. Social media influencers have entered the healthcare conversation. Raffael Heiss and colleagues’ analysis ...