Public attitudes towards mental health and people with mental health problems are getting worse, according to new research.

✨Harmony, or Melody? ✨ After 47 years away, I returned to choir. Not to the familiarity of a church choir, but the West End Musicals Choir. And instead of easing back into the comfort of melody, I ch...

Over the eighty years since Myanmar’s independence from Britain, war between the state and armed rebel groups has been so constant as to seem like the

Victor Adebowale says failure to detect his mother’s cancer was example of ‘black service, not NHS service’ A senior figure in the health service has criticised it for deep-seated racism after his mother “got a black service, not an NHS service” before she died. Victor Adebowale, the chair of the NHS Confederation, claimed his mother Grace’s lung cancer went undiagnosed because black people get “disproportionately poor” health service care. Black British mothers are up to four times more likely to die during pregnancy or within six weeks of giving birth than white mothers. Those of black and African or Caribbean origin are twice as likely to have a stroke, and younger, than white counterparts. Black African patients are two and a half times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act than white British patients. Continue reading...

For centuries, the default subject in medicine research and training has been the male. Julia Robinson talks to the scientists and clinicians trying to improve things for the other 51% of humanity

Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness

Experts from King’s shared their insights on the extraordinary Oval Office exchange between US President Donald Trump, Vice-President JD Vance and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.