Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.

The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire.

The National University of Singapore (NUS)–Lancet Pandemic Readiness through Institutions, Mobilising Communities, and Equity (PRIME) Commission redefines pandemic readiness and offers a practical blu...

The push is for more supply, any supply - but at what cost?

Scots “did not get the hospital the country paid for” with the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH), the Health Secretary has said.

A public inquiry was told the General Medical Council did not realise its error for eight years

Inquiry chair Lady Justice Thirlwall set out how the culture of the health system created the conditions that enabled poor care and criminality.

Despite a robust research base, hospital-acquired conditions and preventable harms persist. Health care professionals must recognize the critical...

Labour MP Michelle Welsh feared her baby would die, yet was treated with ‘disdain’ at hospital. She has campaigned tirelessly for an end to maternity failings

The former medical director of the Nottingham trust, Keith Girling, said he had "no comments" after being asked about the independent review of maternity services.

The family at the center of Pennsylvania’s measles controversy tells their story.

Outgoing BMA Scotland chair Dr Iain Kennedy says NHS boards put reputation management ahead of patient safety and warns whistleblowers still face…

Angela Constance said she had not taken the decision lightly, but the £2.1bn price tag was not affordable in the current climate

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow is ordered to improve its patient safety and cleanliness.

Austin Bradford Hill's landmark 1965 paper contains several important lessons for the current conduct of epidemiology. Unfortunately, it is almost exclusively cited as the source of the "Bradford-Hill...

Immunosuppressed patients are at increased risk of developing hospital-acquired fungal infections. The risk of fungal infection from construction is well established, but water ingress also presents a risk if it is not dealt with promptly. This article describes four such scenarios and the learning …

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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift away from droplet-based precautions toward a “through the air” framework that recognizes aerosol transmission across a continuum of particle sizes. As mea...

Most consultants in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital department have tendered their resignation as public inquiry exposes failings

It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

Plasterboard and insulation at the Baird Family Hospital and The Anchor Centre have been stripped out after they were allowed to get wet.

Health minister pledges to work quickly to improve hygiene after mould outbreak in Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred hospital left two patients dead

Grieving relatives of patients who died at a scandal-hit super hospital have joined forces for the first time to issue an unprecedented warning to John Swinney that the £1bn site is still not safe.

The former SNP MSP served as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport from 2018-2021.