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The US intersex health equity report is a step towards providing the bodily autonomy and health equity that intersex children and adults deserve, write Sam L Sharpe, Erika Lorshbough, and Marissa ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency plans to undo rules limiting air and water pollution from mining, drilling, and power generation. It will also no longer regulate greenhouse gases or try to ...
Jeng and colleagues examine the current landscape of nuclear threats, exploring the shortcomings of healthcare systems in preparing for nuclear strikes and the immense challenges of mass casualty ...
We need to challenge racialised bias and myths to eliminate inequities in pain management, writes Anna Hood In healthcare systems such as the NHS, founded on the principles of equity and universality, ...
Resident doctors from across the UK convened in London on 26 April for the BMA’s annual conference, where they discussed and debated training and scope creep, as well as the Supreme Court’s ruling on ...
Not enough GPs are in post to provide the care that patients want and need, and satisfaction with the service is at a record low.1 GPs feel overburdened for multiple reasons, and among them is a rise ...
Sheena Asthana and colleagues consider how to realise the potential of digital health technologies to help older people maintain wellbeing and independence and reduce hospital demand The NHS faces a ...
Investing in the specialist workforce and overcoming access barriers is essential to successful delivery of this therapy in the NHS, write Jessie Enakhumhe and Yasmin Sheikh Casgevy, or exagamglogene ...
Continuity of care is one of the great strengths of general practice. The evidence for its value is clear: better outcomes, fewer hospital admissions, more efficient use of healthcare resources.1 But ...
One Easter in the 1970s Sheila Clark, a paediatrician working in Sheffield, was on a pilgrimage to the Catholic shrine at Lourdes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, when she joined a large group of ...
Rules on patient choice that govern cataract care in England are allowing private companies to make millions of pounds in profits from treating NHS patients and should be scrapped, campaigners have ...
Greater access to multidisciplinary bereavement services is essential Globally, more than 6.2 million children die before the age of 19 each year, with many of these deaths occurring suddenly or ...