The world risks repeating the mistakes of HIV/Aids with Covid-19
98 per cent of people living with HIV in the UK are on an effective course of treatment. But elsewhere,…
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“It’s every 999 caller’s worst nightmare”: Why aren’t ambulances reaching people in time?
A baby fits for two hours. A cancer patient suffers suspected sepsis for seven hours. A man is left to…
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Want to prolong the pandemic? Then keep on hoarding vaccines
Vaccine inequality isn’t just a moral travesty for the West. It’s also bad science.
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What we do – and, crucially, don’t – know about masks and Covid
A study appears at first glance to shed new light on the efficacy of masks, but the results are not…
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How a fourth Covid wave is crashing over Europe
As infections rise and new restrictions are imposed, Europeans are divided between the resigned majority and the angry few.
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Can the UK evade the winter lockdowns spreading across Europe?
Austria is in lockdown, Merkel wants tighter restrictions in Germany, the Netherlands has imposed a three-week partial lockdown and Belgium…
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The death of sickle cell patient Evan Smith tells a story of health injustice bleakly familiar in the pandemic
Covid-19 underlined the grim medical and healthcare inequalities that have long divided Britain’s communities.
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How ambulance waiting times in England have surged
The average response time for ambulances in England is now at a record high.
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