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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Widespread public anxiety about the outbreak should be met with an informed response, says Eliza Gil At the time of writing, the outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease in Kent includes 18 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Global health is being reshaped not by epidemiology, but by geopolitics. As donor priorities shift, multilateral institutions weaken, and development finance fragments, a central truth is emerging: ...

GPs increasingly observe, with good reason, that primary care absorbs all the risk and demand that the rest of the health and social care system cannot cope with. But those of us working in acute ...

The NHS “teetered on the brink of collapse” during the pandemic but was saved by the “superhuman” efforts of doctors and other healthcare staff, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has concluded.1 But these ...

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 ...

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 ...