Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination reduces the incidence of cervical cancer by 80% in people vaccinated at or before the age of 16, according to two Cochrane reviews.12 The comprehensive ...

Rates of whooping cough (pertussis) are rising in the US as fewer children are being vaccinated. Official data showed 35 493 cases of the disease in the US in 2024, a fivefold increase from 7063 in ...

Nearly one in three women worldwide—some 840 million—have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime, a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN suggests. The organisations also ...

Two controversial research studies assessing the risks and benefits of giving puberty blockers to young people with gender incongruence will go ahead.1 The trials received all necessary regulatory and ...

A man in Washington state infected with the first known human case of the H5N5 strain of avian influenza has died.12 Health officials did not provide an exact cause of death but said the patient was ...

Countries can learn from the UK’s success with mandatory gender pay gap reporting and accountability, write Helen Clark and colleagues Each November, Equal Pay Day marks the day in the year when women ...

Knitting has brought consultant and mother of two Chrissy Jayarajah a sense of calm, Erin Dean hears Watching the yarn as it moves around the knitting needles on its way to create a garment brings ...

England is facing one of the toughest ever winters in its history as an early wave of flu sweeps the nation, health officials ...

Resident doctors across England braved the elements to join picket lines this morning as they kicked off their latest five ...

Thousands of locally employed doctors—many of them international graduates and from ethnic minorities—are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national ...

A hospital trust has been fined £565 000 over the death of a young woman in a mental health unit who killed herself with a ...

Boris Johnson’s government repeatedly did “too little, too late” in response to the covid pandemic and could have saved 23 000 lives in England if a lockdown had been imposed a week earlier, the UK ...