NHS chiefs have proposed an overhaul of services including a radical change to a two-tier A&E system in England.
Assad’s government are increasingly preventing humanitarian aid and medical supplies reaching opposition-controlled areas of the country.
The Abortion Statistics for England and Wales gives an interesting yearly snapshot of how Britain fits into wider international struggles over reproductive justice and abortion rights.
Despite the official retraction of the 1998 Lancet study that suggested a connection between vaccines and autism, as of 2010, 1 in 4 U.S. parents still believed that vaccines cause autism.
accine scares have emerged as a major challenge to global efforts to eliminate preventable diseases, with rumours and conspiracy theories proliferating faster than health authorities can respond to them. Now researchers, led by Heidi Larson of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, are developing a tool to identify the first signs of these negative reports.