The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has banned the mercury based preservative thiomersal (known in the US as thimerosal) from all influenza vaccines distributed in the US. Justifying the ...

Resident doctors joined picket lines across England this morning (25 July) to mark the start of their five day strike over pay, after talks with the government failed earlier this week. Although most ...

Attacks on healthcare and violations of medical neutrality—the fundamental principle that medical care must operate free of political or military interference—have become alarmingly unexceptional in ...