The phone woke me at 0342h. My mother and younger sister had left a WhatsApp message to call them. Half-asleep, I called back only catching the words “grandma” and “hip fracture”. My world stopped. A ...

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...

Afghanistan is facing a critical shortage of life-saving blood clotting factors, leaving hundreds of haemophilia patients at the risk of uncontrolled internal bleeding, permanent disability, and ...

Amy Shelton is a UK visual artist and the founder of Honeyscribe, an arts organisation which, she says, “explores how art can be a powerful tool to help reconnect people to the natural world”.

In a Correspondence by James R Downing and colleagues1 calling on participants of the Fourth High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases ...

Machine learning for health data science, fuelled by proliferation of data and reduced computational costs, has garnered considerable interest among researchers. The debate around the use of machine ...