Medical sociology examines how social, cultural, political and economic factors shape health in ways that medicine alone ...

UK experts are warning that access to new weight-loss drugs could depend more on wealth than medical need. Strict NHS ...

More babies and young children are missing out on the Government's promise of the 'best start in life' say the authors of the latest health visitor survey. "Widening health inequalities and escalating ...

The Cities@Heart project, starting in January 2026 and coordinated by the University of Birmingham, the University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands) and Novartis (Switzerland), will combine medical ...

A report published today by the national deafblind charity, Sense, highlights the health inequalities and barriers faced by deafblind people accessing healthcare in England. It comes ahead of the ...

Cardiovascular disease remains a major concern in cities, with poor outcomes and high societal cost often driven by unequal ...

Background Hand-rolling tobacco (HRT) remains more affordable than factory-made (FM) cigarettes in the UK, which could ...

Children and young people living in poverty in the UK will gain better access to healthy food, help create a healthy living toolkit and become advocates for health policy thanks to a new partnership ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...