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Young black female scientist’s role in leprosy cure
For centuries, and up until about the 1920s, there was no remedy for leprosy’s debilitating symptoms or its social stigma, but these days it’s...
Nephrologists urge early screening for high-risk kidney disease
South African experts believe it is crucial to get the balance right between scaling up kidney dialysis capacity and investing in transplantation, and called...
US doctors slow to offer newly-approved Alzheimer’s drug
Sceptical American doctors are resisting prescribing the first drug that has been proved to slow the advance of Alzheimer’s – nine months after the...
Neglecting doctors' mental health poses risks for profession
Doctors struggling with mental well-being issues need access to more support and resources, writes Dr Volker Hitzeroth, medico-legal consultant at Medical Protection.
A survey undertaken...
Phone app life-changer for millions of hearing-impaired Africans
In rural Kenya, 64-year-old John Kamau’s world of silence is about to change. After decades of being isolated by hearing loss from the community’s...
Children used as guinea pigs in UK's tainted blood scandal
The National Health Service in the UK is facing a major criminal and ethical scandal as the true scale of the number of medical...
Call to reduce antipsychotic medicines for dementia patients
Doctors are being urged to reduce prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to dementia patients after the largest study of its kind found they were linked...
Cheap diabetes drug may delay ageing, say US scientists
An inexpensive drug taken by millions of people to control diabetes may do more than lower blood sugar, with research suggesting it might have...
Diet change better at relieving IBS than medicine – Swedish trial
Adopting either a low FODMAP diet or one that was low in carbohydrates but still high in fibre relieved irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms...
Call to re-assess growing burden of AF and its consequences
Heart failure, not stroke, is the most common complication of atrial fibrillation – which affects 37m people worldwide – say experts, calling for the...