Tom Clarke
Dementia in decline, latest research suggests
It’s the best news in dementia research for years. So why is no one celebrating?
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Victoria Macdonald
The ‘revolving door of care’: unsafe hospital discharges
The homeless, older people, those with mental health conditions. These are the patients whose voices we rarely hear. Even when it goes wrong and the NHS lets them down.
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Tom Clarke
Ashya King is back – but was it right for him to go?
Perhaps the only good thing about the story of Ashya King, taken to Prague by his parents in 2014 to treat a brain tumour, is that it raised the profile of childhood cancers in the UK.
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Tom Clarke
Peanuts lengthen your life? You’d be nuts to believe it
Don’t imagine that a bag of salted peanuts in the pub is going to do the job if you’re looking for ways to extend your lifespan…
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Tom Clarke
Human genetic modification: a bold step forward or a slippery slope?
Well they’ve only gone and done it. A team of Chinese scientists have published research showing that they have used “gene editing” techniques to manipulate the DNA of a human embryo.
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Jon Snow
How I got stoned on skunk
I had sucked in two huge gulps of the stuff before I started spluttering. I am not a smoker, and the skunk was being delivered in vapour form – two huge balloons of the stuff.
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Tom Clarke
Risks and potential rewards of ‘three-parent embryos’
As MPs prepare to debate the pros and cons of mitrochondrial donation, or “three-parent babies”, do we know enough about the risks involved?
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Victoria Macdonald
Burnham in spotlight for Labour’s 10-year NHS plan
If this winter has identified anything it is that the health and social care system is not working together as well as it should. Indeed, some less kindly souls might say it’s barely working at all.
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Tom Clarke
Is British Ebola hospital in Sierra Leone up to the job?
All is not going well at the British government’s Ebola treatment hospital at Kerry Town. The hospital officially opened on 5 November but is still running at only a fraction of its 92-bed capacity.
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Tom Clarke
Raw data lays bare supermarket chicken problem
As research finds unacceptable levels of a bug that causes food poisoning in supermarket chickens, safety experts advise customers to cook birds thoroughly to avoid problems.
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Tom Clarke
Why thin people might thank their gut for their girth
Researchers have identified a new family of methane-producing bacteria called Chistensenellaceae that are found in nearly everybody’s guts, but are more prevalent in the bellies of thin people.
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Alex Thomson
A dismal response to Ebola’s global spread
The rest of the world seems unenthusiastic in helping tackle Ebola, even now that the outbreak has spread and spread beyond the shores of Africa.
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Tom Clarke
On the front line of Britain’s response to Ebola
Porton Down is where blood samples from suspected UK Ebola cases are sent – and the lab staff are the busiest they’ve ever been.
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Tom Clarke
Are we heading for Ebola outbreak in the US?
The US is now dealing with the first case of Ebola to spread outside of Africa. As the size of the epidemic continues to grow exponentially there is a very high chance it won’t be the last.
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Tom Clarke
The terrifying mathematics of Ebola
Scientists estimate that the size of the Ebola epidemic in somewhere like Monrovia, the Liberian capital, could double in a fortnight.