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Plan for GPs to keep millions of patients out of hospital

A scheme to help GPs provide care and advice to patients without them joining long NHS hospital waiting lists is being expanded in England,...

Trump Seeks to Lower Drug Prices Through Medicare and Some Imports

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday outlining a series of actions intended to lower drug prices, including helping states import drugs from...

Three million child deaths linked to drug resistance

Dominic Hughes Global health correspondent ...

Cancer pill ‘gave me four years of extra time’

Philippa Roxby Health reporter BBC Linda Kelly, 67, has advanced breast cancer which has spread to her bones and chest wall, but says a new pill has...

Trump threatens to end pharmaceuticals tariff exemption

US President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose “major” tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals, a move that could potentially impact global trade in medicines....

All Federal Experts on H.I.V. Prevention in Children Overseas Were Dismissed

The Trump administration has dismissed the few remaining health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable people: more than 500,000...

Blackpool athlete’s ‘long Covid’ turned out to be terminal cancer

A former triathlete whose terminal cancer was initially mistaken for long Covid has been given months to live. Olivia Knowles, from Blackpool, noticed something “wasn’t...

Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs

The Trump administration on Friday rejected a Biden plan that would have required Medicare and Medicaid to cover obesity drugs and expanded access for...