Hospes in Latin means both a host and a guest. It’s a Janus word that reflects a reciprocal arrangement between not so much opposites as counterparts. Hospes gives us the word hospitality, which is ...

MPs and peers must act urgently to avert potential scandal from drug industry payments and connections to parliamentary interest groups, researchers have said. A new study of pharmaceutical firms’ ...

Boris Johnson’s government repeatedly did “too little, too late” in response to the covid pandemic and could have saved 23 000 lives in England if a lockdown had been imposed a week earlier, the UK ...

Limited evidence to support a causal association In September 2025, the US president claimed that paracetamol (acetaminophen) use during pregnancy caused autism.1 A linked umbrella review by Sheikh ...

Doctors have accused ministers of “weaponising antisemitism” to silence healthcare professionals from speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.12 In a letter sent to the Department of Health and ...

Donald Trump’s government vowed to fix longstanding problems with the Food and Drug Administration. Almost a year into Trump’s second term, how is the FDA faring? Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee ...

America feels familiar to a British person—until it doesn’t. Lucinda Hiam writes from the US, observing that nothing has felt more foreign than living in a country where the threat of gun violence is ...

New guidance published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggesting vaccines may cause autism has been slammed by medical and autism advocacy groups. A CDC webpage which ...

Grace (also known by her married name of Grace Bryden) worked for many years in Glasgow’s pioneering domiciliary family planning service, helping to give women more choice and control in their lives, ...

A man in the US state of Washington has contracted bird flu in what is the first known human case of the H5N5 strain of the viral disease.1 It is also the first human case of any bird flu recorded in ...

England is facing one of the toughest ever winters in its history as an early wave of flu sweeps the nation, health officials ...

Thousands of locally employed doctors—many of them international graduates and from ethnic minorities—are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national ...