NHS watchdogs will re-evaluate their decision not to fund two new Alzheimer’s treatments on the health service after appeals from the drugs’ manufacturers. The National Institute for Health and Care ...

Psychedelic drugs produce effects on the mind that manifest as an apparent expansion of consciousness often accompanied by hallucinations. Psychedelics, which act as agonists at serotonin 5-HT2A ...

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 ...

The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is in crisis and, as the government has acknowledged in its recent white paper, needs to change.1 The number of children receiving the more ...

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 ...

Speed is of the essence in recognising and treating invasive meningococcal disease, of which there is an outbreak in young people in Kent caused by group B meningococcus bacteria (MenB). Emma ...

Reproductive rights are a stark exception to US politicians’ rallying around individual freedom, with abortion bans tightening state control over women’s health and causing preventable deaths, writes ...

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 ...

Two young people have died and 11 others are seriously ill in hospital after an outbreak of invasive meningococcal meningitis in Kent, England.1 The two who died have been confirmed as a student at ...

As the meningitis outbreak in Kent continues, with 29 cases and two deaths reported, experts look at what might be behind this “unprecedented event” “This is the most fascinating question that has ...

An emergency department doctor who exploited the health concerns of two female junior colleagues for his own sexual gratification has been suspended from the UK medical register for 12 months. Khush ...

A woman in her 70s presented with an eight month history of transverse nail changes affecting all fingernails and toenails. She had a history of breast cancer treated with mastectomy, followed by six ...