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In the 1960s, I trained as a dental auxiliary (later known as dental therapists). We were trained to fill in gaps in the school dental service…

1. MedicineDoctors in Madrid hailed a new pill for patients with high blood pressure resistant to existing medication as a “gamechanger” and a “triumph of science”.Globally,…

It was the stuff of Bond villains. Two ageing autocrats, their younger ally in tow, ambled down a red-carpeted ramp before a military parade in Beijing…

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), defended his response to the largest measles outbreak in the…

The Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until now.By Abi Stephenson.…

No one will argue against the benefits of good oral hygiene (The Guardian view on the dental divide: ministers must brush up their policy as well…

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has suggested that Biden-era regulations expanding access to abortion pills could be rolled back because the Biden administration…

As a single parent of a child with suspected autistic traits, I find Bridget Phillipson’s comments deeply unfair (Bridget Phillipson: parents must do more about bad…

The governors of California, Oregon and Washington announced on Wednesday the creation of a West Coast Health Alliance aimed at safeguarding access to vaccines, amid growing…

People who take a mobile phone to the loo should keep to a two TikTok limit, according to doctors who found that toilet scrollers are more…