Scientists have long struggled to decipher the mysteries of the brain. Today, surgeons are able to penetrate deeper than ever before into the depths of the skull to perform amazing medical work and save lives.
Online campaigning for a disabled girl who has been denied a kidney transplant. Web users in Mexico mobilize for the Tarahumara indigenous people. And you can now follow the Australian Open Tennis Championships online.
We often consume genetically modified organisms, so-called GMOs, without knowing it. But is it dangerous for our health? Today the debate continues to divide scientists.
Can an extreme low-calorie diet help to reverse diabetes? How about a dip in the Dead Sea? This week we take a look at promising research into the chronic disease, timed to coincide with World Diabetes Day.
Cambodia is home to the most drug-resistant form of malaria in the world. The World Health Organisation has implemented a vast prevention programme to help eradicate this fatal disease. With the help of local NGOs, they are trying to change people’s mentality and habits.
Efforts to combat malaria in Madagascar have been hampered by increasing resistance to the cheapest and most easily obtainable drugs. This week Health heads to the island nation to understand why this mosquito-transmitted disease refuses to be swept out.
Seven children were in hospital in France on Thursday after contracting E.coli infections from meat. The E.coli strain in France is thought to be different from that responsible for a German outbreak that killed 39 people.
An outbreak of E.coli poisoning that has already killed 19 people and infected thousands across Europe “appears to be stabilising”, German doctors have said.
