Crisis meeting called after £6.6bn NHS England deficit predicted and national medical director resigns
State spending on incapacity and disability payments has risen sharply in recent years
How clinicians worldwide are delivering ‘virtual’ hospital services to remote patients. Plus: data-sharing devices speed recovery; and AI’s role in managing US health claims becomes a legal minefield
Class action lawsuits in the US suggest that digitised medical services can bring downsides as well as benefits
Medical schools, engineers and technologists are coming together to accelerate innovation in patient care
New systems can save lives and improve care — but the cost is a brake on progress
Digital technologies are helping to guide early clinical interventions and assessments of treatment
Digital systems are helping to cut the need for physical attendance at medical centres
UK initiative to harness big biological data sets and look deeper into how the human body works and malfunctions
Inside the market for super-premium semen
Academy’s fellows raise alarm as tech billionaire and Trump ally slashes US health and research spending
Health experts call for overhaul of public guidance on handling the poisonous metal
Daughters of Fred ‘Big Chicken’ Adams stand to reap hundreds of millions with company poised to buy their stake
Mental health treatments face higher regulatory hurdles for approval, warns Imperial College professor
UK health secretary says deal will end ‘8am scramble’ to see a doctor and free up phone lines
The answer still puzzles scientists, but there are some clues of what might be behind the gender gap in life expectancy
As traditional parties decline, vaccine scepticism has become one of the anti-establishment forces filling the vacuum
Study challenges notion of sleeplessness epidemic but says technology disrupts biological rhythms
Advanced early warning systems boost ability to flag higher likelihood of health threats
UK government wants to boost workplace preventive health measures to cut spending on hospital care
Shares fall in country’s largest healthcare company which said it was unaware of any review
Government accused of failing to ‘get to grips’ with cases showing impact on livestock reared near abandoned mines in England
Advisory group was set to weigh in on nearly a dozen jabs in a meeting later this month
Research highlights how lifestyle and living conditions can substantially increase risk of early death and disease
The gap between avian and mammalian cognition may be narrower than we think
