Category: Health

Cancer care has got worse since the government announced plans to speed up waiting times and save more lives, BBC analysis shows.

It follows the UK’s largest and fastest growing meningitis B outbreak to date in Kent earlier this year.

The UK medicines regulator has given approval for an experimental vaccine to be tested on healthy adults.

Snakebite is a neglected tropical disease, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and disabilities each year. India alone reports nearly 50,000 deaths every year, the

A multi-institutional research team led by Georgia State University Regents’ Professor Emerita of Biochemistry and Biophysical Chemistry Jenny J. Yang has developed a new class

Understanding the brain requires tools that can follow neural activity across many scales: from millisecond electrical spikes in individual neurons to brain-wide circuit dynamics that

The metabolism of cancer cells may play a key role in their ability to evade the immune system. This is demonstrated by a new study

A study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has found that new cutting-edge techniques can accurately edit genes in human

A Pennsylvania coroner confirms that the two measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania last month involved infants, and the virus itself caused one of the deaths

The technology will soon be routinely used within the NHS, MHRA chief Lawrence Tallon tells the BBC.

Pharmacies in England will soon offer treatments for a total of 12 common conditions which save people going to their GP first.

Menstrual cycles are highly individual, making blanket advice found on social media difficult to apply, researchers say.

Your attention span has shrunk by nearly two minutes in the past 20 years, driven in part by technology’s hold over your work and home

Why would a person pick a potential life partner without feeling the spark of sexual attraction? And can these relationships survive and thrive? Can sexual