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Physician associates: a solution for healthcare staff shortages or a colonial throwback?
SeventyFour/Shutterstock Before the COVID pandemic, the global health workforce needed as many as 6.4 million more medical doctors, and the gap between demand for health workers and supply is growing. As you might expect, the shortage is most acutely felt in low- and middle-income countries. The latest World Health OrganizationContinue Reading
Centenarian blood tests give hints of the secrets to longevity
Dan Negureanu/Shutterstock Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the fastest-growing demographic group of the world’s population, with numbers roughly doubling every ten years since the 1970s. How long humans can live, and what determines a long and healthy life, have been of interest for as longContinue Reading
The Yorkshire Ripper: what did he do and when? A timeline
C ontent warning: this article contains details of graphic violence Over the course of five years in the 1970s, serial killer Peter Sutcliffe brutally murdered 13 women, injuring at least seven more, across the north of England. Now, the terrible story of what he did, and how he was finallyContinue Reading
UK working to help families of Britons as Israel conflict intensifies
F oreign Office officials are assessing the situation in Israel and Gaza as the death toll continues to rise, with fierce fighting ongoing in the wake of an attack by Hamas. Among the dead is 20-year-old Nathanel Young, a Briton serving in the Israeli Defence Services who died on theContinue Reading
UK working to help families of Britons caught in Israel conflict
T he Government is working to establish the status of UK citizens in Israel after a British man serving in the country’s army was killed during attacks by Hamas. Rishi Sunak condemned the incursion as an “appalling act of terror” as the death toll climbed to at least 700 onContinue Reading
Streeting says reforms to save NHS could take a decade
I t will take Labour two terms in office to turn around the “existential” challenges faced by the NHS and social care, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said. He said the challenges facing the NHS in England were “enormous” and without significant reform “it isn’t sustainable for the long term”.Continue Reading
Starmer tells Sunak to ‘bring it on’ as Labour conference gets under way
S ir Keir Starmer announced a £1.5billion plan to tackle NHS waiting lists but urged the party not to become “giddy” at the prospect of power, ahead of the general election. As activists gathered for what could be the final Labour conference before the election expected next year, Sir KeirContinue Reading
Antonia Thomas and Nina Segal on Shooting Hedda Gabler & weird film set dynamics: Theatre Podcast
Welcome to another episode of The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast. We’re joined by actress Antonia Thomas, who you may recognise from E4’s Misfits, and writer Nina Segal, for the new play Shooting Hedda Gabler at the Rose Theatre. Nina discusses why she decided to do a play about making aContinue Reading
Dengue: why is this sometimes fatal disease increasing around the world?
Something unusual seems to be happening with dengue, a potentially fatal mosquito-borne viral disease found across swathes of tropical Africa, Asia and the Americas. As with most infectious diseases, the number of cases tends to rise and fall over the years as epidemics come and go, but recently changes seemContinue Reading
Discovery of half-a-million-year-old wooden structure shows we’re wrong to underestimate our ancient relatives
Excavators found part of a structure formed by two overlapping logs. Barham et al. Nature (2023), Author provided To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In today’s fast changing world, older technologies,Continue Reading