A baby with a fever was diagnosed with a rare tick-borne disease – but it’s not as uncommon as you might think. With tick populations booming in the US, Lena H Sun says the case is a lesson in not leaping to conclusions

After bouts of tormenting delusion, just one session of ECT can help dilute the hysteria of psychological patients

Around 10 children born with an incomplete oesophagus to receive pioneering new treatment

Mechanical thrombectomy to be offered to patients at all 24 specialist centres in England

"She instantly started screaming and gagging"

Government aiming to cut items that can be bought over the counter including gluten-free food, paracetamol and sun cream

Umbilical cords are now so much more than medical waste, having helped thousands recover from cancer. Bryn Nelson meets a man who was cured by two anonymous baby girls

Californian researchers claim to be on cusp of breakthrough but cancer expert says while such blood tests show 'enormous potential', he is doubtful they will be ready in such a short time

Medical use of cannabis compounds an ‘area of huge untapped potential’, researchers say

New medicine will tackle 'exponential' increase in resistant bacteria in hospitals, say scientists

Some 8,000 more patients may respond to the drugs than are receiving them at present

You don’t have to do high-impact workouts to keep your body healthy

The potential of human-animal chimeras leave scientists with the question of ethics

Pancreatic cancer is the eighth most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, but a new treatment aims to dull the disease’s deadly edge

Lifestyle practises to prevent cancer are becoming neglected

There is ‘no question’ that delays in the approval of life-saving new medicines will prove fatal for some, says Professor Paul Workman