Browsing: Health

Andy Burnham has signalled he would overhaul England’s social care system this year if he became prime minister, the biggest indication yet of what his main…

Diagnostic interviews – the most common way to diagnose substance use and mental disorders including depression, anxiety, bipolar and personality disorders – vary in reliability from…

Central Africa’s Ebola outbreak could spread to be similar in scale to the worst outbreak in history, west Africa’s 2014-2016 outbreak that killed more than 11,000…

1. Smart drugs can help patients kill off their own tumoursImmunotherapy drugs, which harness the body’s immune system to attack tumours, have revolutionised cancer treatment over…

If the country seems to be slipping away from reason and trust in science, blame usually falls on modern phenomena such as social media and its…

Denis Campbell’s article (GPs in England too ‘overloaded’ to help older people at risk of falling, say MPs, 3 June) draws welcome attention to a severe…

Long-serving presenter has been diagnosed with commonest form of dementia, says Alzheimer’s SocietyThe former Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease,…

Alarm bells ought to have rung when it emerged last month that Palantir engineers could gain “unlimited access” to identifiable NHS patient data. Such sensitive medical…

For decades after the discovery of Ebolavirus in 1976, outbreaks of the disease were relatively small and contained, affecting a few hundred people at most.Not any…

In 2022 I moved to Clevedon, near Bristol. As soon as I saw the oak tree behind my flat, I started sitting under it. It’s not in…