What you need to know about latest meningitis cluster
After a fourth case of meningitis B has been confirmed in Reading, BBC South's health correspondent Alastair Fee shares ...
The Guardian view on tackling Ebola: pathogens aren’t the only things that kill | Editorial
Conflict and aid cuts are hampering the fight against an outbreak of the deadly virus centred in the Democratic Republic...
John Hancock obituary
My brother-in-law, John Hancock, who has died aged 83, was a runner, climber, cyclist, socialist, naturalist and much lo...
Former health minister with terminal cancer urges MPs not to bring back assisted dying bill
Ashley Dalton said rejected amendments could have made bill stronger but it became a ‘pretty dangerous set of affairs’A ...
Why patients are turning to Dr Chatbot | Letters
Richard Eltringham and Barbara Riddell point to the decline in general practice as the reason why people are turning to ...
Celeste Calocane’s bravery in highlighting Britain’s broken mental health services | Letter
We should pay heed to the Nottingham killer’s mother, says a reader who struggled to get her son the treatment he needed...
Cruise control: what’s wrong with a holiday on board? | Letters
Readers respond to an article by Dave Schilling in which he said he couldn’t think why anyone would choose to go on a cr...
/world-health-assembly-2026-committee-a.tmb-1200v.jpg?sfvrsn=9d01e43d_1)
Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 19 May 2026
At the World Health Assembly today, Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus presented his report on the work of W...
Immunotherapy could be used to treat depression, early trial suggests
UK scientists find tocilizumab, used for rheumatoid arthritis, may help antidepressant-resistant patientsImmunotherapy c...
How contagious is Ebola? And how worried should you be about the current outbreak?
Global Health How contagious is Ebola? And how worried should you be about the current outbreak? May 20, 202610:58 AM...
Vaccine to tackle Ebola outbreak will take six to nine months, says WHO
The response to the current wave of the disease, which has caused 139 deaths in central Africa to date, has been hampere...
Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly honours global champions advancing primary health care
Today, the World Health Assembly recognized individuals and institutions whose contributions to global health have gone ...