In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...

The phone woke me at 0342h. My mother and younger sister had left a WhatsApp message to call them. Half-asleep, I called back only catching the words “grandma” and “hip fracture”. My world stopped. A ...

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

Amy Shelton is a UK visual artist and the founder of Honeyscribe, an arts organisation which, she says, “explores how art can be a powerful tool to help reconnect people to the natural world”.

Afghanistan is facing a critical shortage of life-saving blood clotting factors, leaving hundreds of haemophilia patients at the risk of uncontrolled internal bleeding, permanent disability, and ...

In the UK, it is compulsory to stay in education or training until age 18 years. However, recent funding changes for post-16 programmes in England, Northern Ireland, and Wales require at least grade 4 ...

More than 30 years after the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study showed that statins save lives, their full public health potential remains unrealised. Statins are underused worldwide, and as a ...

Machine learning for health data science, fuelled by proliferation of data and reduced computational costs, has garnered considerable interest among researchers. The debate around the use of machine ...

Despite the availability of effective antihypertensive therapies, global blood pressure control rates remain unacceptably low. Contributing factors, such as low treatment adherence, therapeutic ...

The question of whether prehospital emergency anaesthesia and intubation improves survival in patients with major trauma has ...

Obesity is associated with multiple non-communicable diseases (such as type 2 diabetes, various cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases, and some cancers) and detrimental psychosocial consequences ...

Unmet needs in hepatology continue to evolve globally. While the burden of chronic viral hepatitis continues to decline due to improved treatment and prevention, steatotic liver disease is emerging as ...