The World Health Organization has launched new global guidance calling for mental health and stigma to be treated as a core part of care for people living with neglected tropical diseases.

The Essential care package sets out, for the first time, practical, evidence-based actions to integrate mental health support and stigma reduction into NTD programmes, from community-level support and routine screening to referral pathways and system-wide planning.

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health beyond the bounds of planet Earth is no longer theoretical but now ‘urgently practical,’ according to a new peer-reviewed study by an international multidisciplinary team of human reproduction, bioethics, and aerospace researchers.

Air ambulance pre-hospital care (HEMS) may make surviving critical injury more likely as it’s associated with saving 5 more lives than would be expected in every 100 major trauma cases, suggests an analysis of survival data for one regional service in South East England, and published online in Emergency Medicine Journal.