Health

News outlets should report the age-standardised mortality rates alongside the number of excess deaths so as not to mislead the public

Research is revealing invisible injuries beyond the traditional diagnosis of PTSD, with important applications for healthcare staff caught up in battling Covid-19

Recording guidelines are obscuring rather than clarifying the real extent of Covid’s impact on excess deaths

‘I can’t agree with Alistair Haimes that the arrival of vaccines should change how we feel about lockdowns’

Alistair Haimes is wrong – the facts against a third lockdown haven’t changed

The coronavirus response will disproportionately affect people with disabilities for years to come

By seeking answers to scientific questions no-one had asked, we find ourselves assigning importance to discoveries which may have none

Have we passed the point of no return? The Covid Physician warns against crossing the bioethical Rubicon

New scientific studies have captured a different, broader picture – not a selection of details in high-resolution that grab headlines

The ruling that under 16s should be assumed unable to consent to puberty blockers means that this unregulated experiment may finally be drawing to a close