AstraZeneca boss warns it is ‘hard to champion’ Britain as a place for investment and research as row over medicine pricing escalates

Fiction can be an important tool to explore complex science and technology questions. Arula Ratnakar discusses how storytelling can help both experts and nonexperts think about complex issues.

The president of Ukraine, resented for his global popularity, has been sacrificed. The American president has walked unblinking into a Kremlin trap

Around 67% of participants noted that changing their diet had a positive effect on pain.

Combining functional genomics with the largest ever genome-wide association study of osteoarthritis has identified disease-linked variants and new drug targets.

The pandemic may be over, but millions are still dealing with COVID-19's effects. The CDC estimates nearly 20 million Americans are struggling with the effects of Long COVID -- the persistence of ongo...

Emergency contraception is free from most GPs and sexual health clinics, but pharmacies can charge up to £30.

Selected works by SCMP's veteran political cartoonist, Harry Harrison, from March 2025.

Roughly 200 million women around the world suffer from endometriosis, a condition that causes tissue from the lining of the uterus to grow in places outside of the uterus. The condition can be excepti...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that the small intestine grows in response to pregnancy in mice. This partially irreversible change may help mice support a pregnancy and prepare ...

John Swinney’s ‘digital front door’ to healthcare has yet to see the light of day

Catherine Renton joined the trial for relugolix-estradiol-norethisterone, but it ended badly. Instead, a hysterectomy brought relief

Serious negotiations have not even begun yet, but top US decision-makers appear to want to give Moscow more than it could ever have dreamed of when its "special military operation" in Ukraine went so ...

The Chain Florey Transition-to-Independence (TTI) Fellowship scheme provides a unique opportunity to clinician scientists who have recently completed their clinical training (or will do so in the next...

Like too many women, she had to fight for years to be heard

A recent study reveals that specific Treg subpopulation changes in the first trimester may contribute to spontaneous preterm labor, shedding light on the role of immune regulation in pregnancy outcome...

The Chinese president spoke to the bosses of the largest technology companies, such as Huawei and DeepSeek, asking them to step up at this ‘prime time’