Widespread public anxiety about the outbreak should be met with an informed response, says Eliza Gil At the time of writing, ...

NHS watchdogs will re-evaluate their decision not to fund two new Alzheimer’s treatments on the health service after appeals ...

Ralph Ross Russell—or R3, as he was affectionately known—became a neurologist at a time when strokes were not deemed worthy of academic attention. He was one of the first to make study of the ...

Psychedelic drugs produce effects on the mind that manifest as an apparent expansion of consciousness often accompanied by ...

Two young people have died and 11 others are seriously ill in hospital after an outbreak of invasive meningococcal meningitis ...

The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is in crisis and, as the government has acknowledged in its ...

Leo was born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1930 into a poor Orthodox Jewish family who had fled the pogroms in Poland after the first world war. His father became a communist and was in and out of prison ...

Rules regarding ways doctors must keep their personal beliefs in check when treating patients are being updated by the General Medical Council. The regulator has launched a consultation1 on proposed ...

As the meningitis outbreak in Kent continues, with 29 cases and two deaths reported, experts look at what might be behind ...

A woman in her 70s presented with an eight month history of transverse nail changes affecting all fingernails and toenails.

Reproductive rights are a stark exception to US politicians’ rallying around individual freedom, with abortion bans ...

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir. A coalition of human rights, health and patient ...