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In late spring 2024, Dr Brian Elmore was working out of a mobile clinic, providing medical treatment to migrants in Ciudad Juárez, just south of the…

The patient was in Gibraltar. The surgeon was in London. The outcome was a remarkable triumph for remote robotic surgery that saved the life of a…

British Airways flight 032, bound for London, was still on the tarmac in Hong Kong when Prof Angus Wallace heard the passenger announcement dreaded by many…

A doctor who was struck off over a “reckless” circumcision that risked killing a toddler is still performing the procedure as a layperson, the Guardian can…

Christina Brown was 18 years old the first time she had to correct a doctor when advocating for health.Breast cancer runs in her family, so she…

In southern California, where rates of homelessness are among the highest in the nation, a private company, Akido Labs, is running clinics for unhoused patients and…

Congratulations, you’ve reached the final day of the Brain Health Challenge! Today, we’re asking you to do a few things that might feel a bit out…

January 6, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmThis Year’s Flu Season Just Surpassed a Grim New RecordAlmost one in 10 people who visited a…

For the last four years I’ve been breaking every rule of appropriate, normal behaviour. I’ve poked, probed, inserted, stabbed and cut people in their most intimate…

Foreign doctors and nurses are increasingly shunning the NHS because anti-migrant rhetoric and rising racism have created “a hostile environment”, the leader of Britain’s medics has…