Brain training - playing online games that give memory and reasoning skills a workout - is beneficial for older people, a large-scale study...
More needs to be done to tackle a dual threat of patients having both tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes, global health experts say. A...
Tuberculosis now ranks alongside HIV as the world's most deadly infectious disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Each accounted for between 1....
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed two new cases of Ebola in...
Engineers have built a flexible sensor that detects touch and, just like skin, produces electrical pulses that get faster when the pressure...
Ebola persists in the semen of male survivors much longer than previously thought, a study shows. The report in the New England Journal of...
The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been split two ways for groundbreaking work on parasitic diseases. William C Campbell and...
End-of-life care in the UK has been ranked as the best in the world with a study praising the quality and availability of services. The...
