Britain on Wednesday celebrates 75 years of its National Health Service (NHS), with royals, politicians, staff, and patients expressing pride in its past and determination that it will endure in the future despite current challenges.
Senior doctors in England have voted for industrial action over a pay dispute, leaving the state-run health service facing deep disruption next month when junior doctors are also planning to walk out.
Brussels must act to prevent essential medical devices for children from disappearing in the European Union in the next year, the European Academy of Paediatrics warned on Tuesday.
Almost $1.9 billion left in the global scheme to share COVID-19 vaccines more equitably will be used to help prepare for future pandemics and other health threats, said the German development ministry on Tuesday.
The British Columbia Supreme Court dismissed a proposed class action in Canada against heartburn drug Zantac over increased cancer risk, drugmaker GSK said on Friday.