Sarah Neville

Faster diagnostics, more targeted treatment and better communication are among areas of healthcare already benefiting from artificial intelligence

Funding commitments raise questions over whether the money can deliver needed long-term transformation

Drug company made claims even though a study of donanemab’s preventive potential is not due to end until 2027

Reduced illness could save NHS £18bn per year by mid-2030s, says think-tank

Foundation says about 40mn children are at risk of stunted growth as climate change worsens food security

Rita Charon believes that letting patients tell their own stories is the best way to fix a broken system

Medical breakthroughs come with spiralling price tag, leaving policymakers with tough decisions

Groups managing more than $13tn cite ‘economic imperative’ of finding ways to reduce superbugs’ spread

Report says number of procedures double from 2019-2022 as Britons seek faster treatment outside state sector

Third of patients wait longer than 62-day standard to start treatment, according to ONS data

Spending watchdog declines to give green light to lecanemab for patients in England

How medical research is failing women

Reducing 14 ‘modifiable’ risks can prevent or delay cognitive disorder, report says

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has called on the government to seek “a cross-party solution” to the crisis in social care, declaring he is “ready to sit down with ministers and start those talks wherever, whenever.” His clarion call follows a general election campaign in which social care was barely mentioned, despite the millions of people affected by England’s increasingly threadbare provision for the elderly and disabled. The Liberal Democrats alone made social care central to their e…

Hilary Evans-Newton learnt about life’s vicissitudes while still a teenager, when her father contracted cancer in his late fifties, forcing him into premature retirement, a close school friend died from meningitis and all three of her living grandparents were diagnosed with dementia. As her grandmother’s confusion took hold, “[she] thought that my dad was actually her husband, my granddad”, Evans-Newton recalls. “I used to visit [her] and paint her nails red in the care home because that’s the…

The number of people dying from cardiovascular disease in Europe as a result of air pollution has fallen sharply as countries have cracked down on harmful emissions. The World Heart Federation said that between 2010 and 2019, deaths in the region from heart disease attributed to pollution fell by 19.2 per cent, and from strokes by 25.3 per cent. This amounted to 88,880 fewer heart disease deaths and 34,317 fewer stroke deaths. Europe also recorded the largest annual decline in PM2.5 — the air…

Teenagers help the company rethink care and identify technologies that can improve the patient experience

New Covid-19 variants are spreading around the world and stoking fears of a summer surge in cases in the US, in the latest sign of the infectious disease’s ability to mutate and potentially threaten collective immunity. KP.2, one of several so-called FLiRT variants — the word derives from the names of the mutations in the variants’ genetic code — has become the dominant coronavirus strain in the US since first emerging in March. In the two weeks to May 11, KP.2 accounted for 28.2 per cent of c…

The number of people becoming seriously ill or dying prematurely from conditions such as high blood pressure and obesity has risen 50 per cent since 2000, underlining the huge challenge diseases linked to ageing and lifestyle pose to overstretched health services. The findings point to a big shift from an era in which infectious diseases and poor maternal and child health were among the biggest threats, to one where health systems must cope with “metabolism-related risk factors”, including high…

Long Covid is exerting a silent drag on work and health, say officials and economists who warn that a struggle to count the costs of the condition is leaving authorities “shooting in the dark”. The impact of long Covid — defined as symptoms that continue or develop three months after an initial infection, and last at least two months — has dealt a long-lasting blow to the productivity of health systems, with ripple effects on the wider workforce. But four years after the emergence of the pande…